According to TMZ, Kiker died from an opioid overdose. Citing the City and County of Denver Medical Examiner's Office, Kiker ...

Doug Kiker died March 10. Valerie Cook was informed by an investigator that he died of a drug-induced heart attack, with the ...

Douglas Kiker, the "American Idol" contestant known as the "Singing Garbage Man," has died, his sisters announced this week.

Doug Kiker, the Alabama native dubbed the "Singing Garbage Man" during his audition for season ... we have to announce the passing of my brother Douglas Kiker," Evans shared on Facebook.

He was known as “The Singing Garbage Man” on Season 18 of “American ... that we have to announce the passing of my brother, Douglas Kiker,” she wrote. “He was sooo loved and will be ...

American Idol alum Doug Kiker, who earned the nickname “The Singing Garbage Man” and brought Katy Perry to tears on the hit singing competition, died from an opioid overdose. Kiker’s cause of death ...

Season 18 alum Doug Kiker, better known to fans as the “Singing Garbage Man,” died from an opioid overdose at age 32, and his ex-fiancée Valerie Cook has opened up about the struggles he faced.

According to a report from the City and County of Denver Medical Examiner obtained by TMZ, the singer—known as "The Singing Garbage Man"—died following an opioid overdose, with toxicology reports ...

Douglas Kiker you will forever be missed ... where he earned the nickname “The Singing Garbage Man” thanks to his day job as a sanitation worker. His audition moved then-judge Katy Perry ...

"The singing garbage man" — as the show tabbed him — was ... heart that we have to announce the passing of my brother Douglas Kiker," shared his sister Angela on Facebook on March 12.