RIP
Posted on 11/03/2023 9:41:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
Johnny Hardwick's body was in bad shape when he died -- so much so that officials haven't been able to figure out how exactly he died ... this according to the medical examiner.
According to the 'King of the Hill' star's autopsy report, obtained by TMZ, Johnny was found dead in his bathtub back in August -- and the water was running when he was found ... but the drain was open and he was not actually submerged.
The M.E. says there were no obvious signs of trauma ... adding that a toxicology test showed a "presumptive positive test for cannabinoids," with the report noting drugs were found at the scene -- although it's unclear what sort of substance, precisely, was discovered.
With all that said, Johnny's cause of death couldn't be determined -- this due to the "extensive decompositional changes" his body was going through when discovered. Another interesting nugget -- the 5'7" voice actor weighed just 100 pounds at the time of discovery.
TMZ broke the story, Texas officers were called to his home in August for a welfare check, which is when they discovered his body -- he was pronounced dead at the scene, and no foul play was suspected at the time.
Johnny lent his voice to the animated show for 258 episodes of the long-running series, famously playing Dale Gribble ... only missing one episode in the show's entire run. He was also cited as returning for a supposed revival of the show, but it's unclear if he ever recorded for it before his death.
Fans mourned the loss of Johnny soon after he was pronounced dead -- and Mike Judge, co-creator of the series and voice of the show's lead, Hank Hill, told us he was "deeply saddened" by his passing.
He was 64.
RIP.
RIP
Another vaxx death.
Only 100 pounds? Probably sop depressed, he starved himself to death.
He was dead that long to be that badly decomposed and the water in the tub was still running?
And the tub wasn’t plugged?
Very strange.
They don’t know how long he was decomposing by then.
At least that’s my reading of it.
I can't imagen how nasty the clean up of seen like this must be. What ever they are paying them, I could never do it.
No kidding.
Our first responders are truly unsung heroes.
I always loved this show. RIP Johnny Hardwick.
I watched an interesting yet funny movie some time back called “Sunshine Cleaners” loosely based on a true story about two women who start their own specialized cleaning service.
Their first job was to clean up a house where a guy had shot himself in bed and the guy had been laying on it for some time. They just took the blood-soaked, smelling of decomposition mattress and threw it in the dumpster for the apartment complex! (I think that part was true)
Or he fell in the tub, busted his neck, and couldn’t get out to get to the phone and just starved there. Wonder when he was last seen?
“ I can’t imagen how nasty the clean up of seen like this must be. What ever they are paying them, I could never do it. ”
I once saw a documentary about a company that specializes in crime scene cleanup. Hideous. Much more extreme than in TV crime dramas. It is a necessary job, but most could not do it. I know I could not.
“Or he fell in the tub, busted his neck, and couldn’t get out to get to the phone and just starved there.”
You mean he died from lack of a bath mat?
How can he be dead, he’s a cartoon character!
FTFA: "The M.E. says there were no obvious signs of trauma..."
A broken neck would be pretty obvious.
Once a body decomposes, where the skin gets pierced, it probably loses its fluids pretty quickly.
How many Olympic sized pools did he fill before found?
I accidentally left a toilet running 4 gallons a minute for a month. The water will stay on until the bill is 30 days overdue. Or longer with a well...
Back in the 70s in Northern New England a woman died in a house with her 100 cats. Authorities walked through and made an executive decision. They burned the place down.
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