Two years after Bob Saget’s death, certain details remain a mystery

Margaret Darby
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Bab Saget died a year ago — but the details around his death remain murky.
Bab Saget died a year ago — but the details around his death remain murky. | Richard Shotwell, Invision via Associated Press
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On Jan. 9, 2022, comedian and “Full House” star Bob Saget died at the age of 65. About a month later, Saget’s cause of death was revealed to the public, but a handful of crucial details remain unknown.

Saget was found dead in a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton Orlando. Dr. Joshua Stephany, the medical examiner for Orange and Osceola counties, said Saget died from “blunt head trauma” and ruled his death as an accident, reported CBS News. He had a fracture in his skull and bleeding around his brain. There were no illicit drugs or toxins in Saget’s body.

According to Stephany, “His injuries were most likely incurred from an unwitnessed fall.” But two years after his death, it is still unknown how Saget damaged his head.

“It’s definitely an unusual case,” an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy told People. “There are still a lot of unanswered questions.”

As Rolling Stone reported, Saget most likely obtained his injuries in his hotel room, because it is unlikely he could make a two-hour drive to the Orlando hotel from Jacksonville if he had sustained his injuries earlier. But an investigation of the comedian’s hotel room did not offer any conclusive results on how Saget might have hit head head.

“As mentioned earlier,” the report read, per Rolling Stone, “most of the suite was carpeted. The headboard of the bed was lightly padded and set slightly out from the wall. These are listed here as possible mechanisms of injury, but nothing was located in the room that allows for a definitive conclusion.”

No skin lacerations were found on any sharp edges within the hotel room, such as tables and countertops. Also, the furniture in the room was determined too soft to cause such an intense fracture, Rolling Stone reported.

According to Dr. Gavin Britz, chair of neurosurgery at Houston Methodist, the trauma to Saget’s skull was “significant,” per The New York Times. “This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.”

Such a severe head injury would likely have left Saget confused, if not knocked unconscious, reported The New York Times.

“I doubt he was lucid, and doubt he thought, ‘I’m just going to sleep this off,’” Dr. Jeffrey Bazarian, an emergency physician and concussion expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center, told the New York Times.

Although certain details in Saget’s death still remain a mystery, authorities reported that there is “no evidence of a struggle, any type of foul play, or that anyone else was in the room at any time during his stay,” per CNN.

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Highlights from Bob Saget’s career

Saget was known as an American actor, stand-up comedian, husband and father. During his longtime role as Danny Tanner on “Full House,” Saget earned the title “America’s Dad.” Here are other highlights from Saget’s career.

  • From 1987 to 1995, Saget played Danny Tanner, a widowed father to three daughters. “Thirty-five years ago, we came together as a TV family, but we became a real family. And now we grieve as a family,” the “Full House” cast members wrote after Saget’s death, per Variety.

  • For almost a decade, Saget hosted “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” After his death, the series paid tribute to the actor with a video highlighting some of Saget’s best moments as the host.

  • Saget is also known for voicing the older version of Ted Mosby on “How I Met Your Mother.”

  • Before his death, Saget started a podcast, “Bob Saget’s Here For You,” where he interviewed close friends and other individuals he found interesting.

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