Inside Robert Carradine's mental health struggles before shocking death at 71

Robert Carradine had a two-decade battle with bipolar disorder that worsened after the 2009 death of his half-brother, David Carradine, who died from asphyxiation in a hotel room in Thailand. In 2015 he and his then-wife, Edith Mani, were injured in a Colorado crash after Carradine crossed into the oncoming lane and collided with a tractor-trailer; their injuries were not life-threatening and the truck driver, Richard Clayton of Wisconsin, was not hurt.

Carradine was issued a citation and later mailed a $169.50 payment for the accident. Two years later Mani said in court documents that she had confronted him and that he "confessed to me and our two children that he deliberately drove into the truck to kill us both," saying the act was linked to the depression she said he suffered since David's death.

Mani requested possession of Carradine's 17 guns for fear he might harm himself. The pair married in 1990; Mani filed for divorce in 2015.

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