Bob Saget is seen healthy and smiling in a selfie taken by a hotel valet who parked his rental car at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grand Lakes hotel shortly before his death.
The luxurious Florida hotel room where “America’s father” Bob Saget mysteriously hit his head and died is shown in crime scene photos for the first time today.
The police cataloged every surface and object in Room 962 at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grand Lakes as they searched for anything that could have caused Full House legend Saget’s skull to fracture.
The image cache released Tuesday by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office includes a shot of the upholstered headboard above the comedian’s bed, as well as his shower, bathtub, desk and minibar.
Investigators were never able to determine exactly what killed the 65-year-old Saget, but in their final report, they suggested that he likely slipped and hit his head on either the headboard or the carpet on the floor in the early hours of January 9.
“Our goal was to find specific locations or objects in the room that could have caused the injury found at autopsy,” their report says.
“Top-tops, tables, nightstands and other hard furniture in the room had well-defined edges and corners, and this was considered unlikely due to the possibility that they could cut the skin,” the report says.
For the same reason, the racks in the bathroom and shower were excluded. Most of the chairs and couches were upholstered in thick fabric and were too soft to inflict this type and severity of injury on Mr. Saget. As mentioned earlier most of the room was carpeted. The head of the bed was lightly upholstered and set back slightly from the wall.
“They are listed here as possible mechanisms of damage, but nothing was found in the room to allow a definitive conclusion.”
Crime scene photos show the inside of room 962 at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, where full house legend Bob Saget fractured his skull and died.
The police cataloged every surface and object in Room 962 at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grand Lakes as they searched for anything that could have caused Full House legend Saget’s skull to fracture. Saget’s bedside table displays his iPhone, iPad, glasses, AirPods, chapstick and more.
The image cache includes a shot of the comedian’s upholstered headboard, as well as his shower, bathtub, desk, and minibar.
Crime scene photos show a barely-touched minibar in the hotel. One cup appears to have been used
The photos were released Tuesday by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Saget returned from a stand-up concert in Jacksonville two hours before handing over the keys to his Chevrolet Impala and heading to the Ritz-Carlton at 2:13.
The shower in Bob Saget’s Florida hotel room is captured in crime scene photos taken just after his death.
The door to room 962 was locked from the inside, and there was no sign of a struggle, nothing was damaged, and there were no traces of blood on his sheets or bedding, the report adds.
Saget returned from a stand-up concert in Jacksonville two hours before handing over the keys to his Chevrolet Impala and heading to the Ritz-Carlton at 2:13 am.
The father-of-three was then seen on CCTV “walking through the lobby on purpose” before entering his room at 2:17 a.m. When he failed to check out later that day, security broke into his plush suite at 3:53 pm and found Saget dead in his bed with a swelling and slight bruising at the corner of his left eye.
The door to room 962 was locked from the inside, and there was no sign of a struggle, nothing was damaged, and there were no traces of blood on his sheets or bedding, the report adds.
Unusually, the inner door to the next room, 961, was found unlocked, but staff determined that no one had entered while Saget was there. Saget stopped briefly to take a photo with valet Orlando Nunez, 21, as he entered the hotel, first warning Nunez that he was recovering from Covid.
The police later used the selfie to determine that Saget was unharmed when he went up to his room.
“At that moment he was wearing a mask, so I had no idea who it was. I said I could take it off because I had Covid twice myself,” Nunez told .
“I recognized the voice, but it wasn’t until he took it off that I was like, ‘Oh man, this is Bob Saget, so nice to meet you.’ “I didn’t see any injuries, he didn’t look injured, he didn’t slur his words – he was exactly how I remembered him when I watched him on TV as a child. I was delighted.
Nunez said the two men chatted warmly for several minutes about the pandemic, their families and their home state of California before taking pictures with his cell phone. “He said he just got back from Jacksonville, but he didn’t look tired at all, like he just stepped off the stage,” Nunes continued.
“We were talking about Covid and he joked about how there are so many strains now that they give them sorority names. “Anyway, I was very careful with the photo as I wanted to be polite and respectful. But he said come here, come on.
“I met a few celebrities who hardly spoke a word, but Bob was the most sincere and approachable guy. When I heard what happened the next day, I was devastated.
“People keep asking questions about what happened, but I don’t think there’s anything more that we’re all missing. I just want him to rest in peace.”
This diagram shows all of the injuries Saget received leading to his death from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Saget returned from a stand-up concert in Jacksonville two hours before handing over the keys to his Chevrolet Impala and heading to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando hotel (pictured) at 2:13.
Saget’s death was ruled an accident, but Orange County investigators were unable to determine exactly how he severely fractured his skull.
Saget is pictured as single father Danny Tanner in a September 1993 publicity photo for the popular ABC sitcom Full House.
Saget’s death stunned his worldwide fan community and baffled his distraught wife, Kelly Rizzo, who said her husband was the happiest man he’s ever been and was in perfect health.
An autopsy confirmed his Covid diagnosis, but Orange County medical examiner Dr. Joshua Stephanie determined it played no role in his sudden death. Experts also ruled out drugs or alcohol as the cause, attributing the death of the beloved comedian to “blunt trauma to the head” including various abrasions to the scalp and fractures to the base of the skull.
“Given the circumstances surrounding the death, and after examination of the body, toxicology, microscopy, testing for a group of respiratory pathogens, bilateral lung cultures, and post-mortem CT, I believe that the death of Robert Saget, a 65-year-old white male found without consciousness in a hotel room is the result of blunt trauma to the head,” concluded Dr. Stephanie. “It is most likely that the deceased accidentally fell on his back and hit the back of his head. The way of death is an accident.
Saget was on the road as part of his I Don’t Do Negative Comedy Tour when he passed away.
Investigators spoke to several people who attended last night’s concert at the Ponte Vedra Beach resort, near Jacksonville, but none of them recalled acting strangely, taking drugs or drinking.
Hertz confirmed that his car was not damaged when it was picked up from the Ritz-Carlton hotel.
Last week, a judge agreed to make the court order permanent, barring the publication of graphic photos and videos related to Saget’s death after his family filed a lawsuit to prevent them from appearing in news articles and spread online.