Posted on 06/07/2019 2:24:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
Dennis Day performs as a Mickey Mouse Club member in the 1950s. Photo courtesy of the Mickey Mouse Channel
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June 7 (UPI) -- A body found at the Oregon home of former Mouseketeer Dennis Day two months ago was the ex-child star, authorities announced Thursday, ending an unusual missing person case that started nearly a year ago.
Day, 76, one of the original members of the Mickey Mouse Club television show, shared the home with his husband Ernest Caswell, who is now in an assisted living facility and struggles with memory loss, the Medford Mail Tribune reported.
Caswell was in the hospital when he reported Day missing last July 15. Day's vehicle was found on the Oregon coast July 26. In April, a body was found in Day and Caswell's home in Phoenix, Oregon, in a state of decay.
"The Oregon State Medical Examiner's office identified the body found in the residence listed in the previous release by the investigation, evidence, and other information as that of the missing person, Dennis Day," the office said Thursday. "Despite their efforts, investigators were unable to utilize dental records or DNA due to the condition of the remains."
The Oregon State Police continued to investigate Day's death and did not release any additional information.
"Our family is truly thankful to the Oregon State Police for helping to bring closure to our family so that we can finally lay Dennis to rest," Day's family said in a statement on Facebook.
Day's case became national news when Dateline NBC posted a story on its website in February. Day appeared in the first two seasons of the Mickey Mouse Club in 1956 and 1957. He moved with Caswell to Oregon in the 1980s.
lol
probably no longer had any
Thanks you miserable ####
Got a head injury at 35 while engaged so i’m f..king sorry I didn’t have kids to please you
bible thumping self righteous ####s like you make this world miserable.
Ironically, the other Dennis Day, of Jack Benny fame, produced 10 offspring.
Are all the original Mouseketeers dead?
There was one really pretty one. I can’t remember her name but she was blonde and Wally Cleaver’s girl friend.
Hang on there, bro. I was not thumping a Bible, and I wasn't talking about heterosexual behavior.
Gays can't make babies. That's basically all I said.
Oh, not A Godfreys crooner.
Godfrey did fire Julius La Rosa on air
Guess that is where PDJT got the idea to publicly state...You’re Fired.
I thought of that, considering his age, but the article specified “state of decay” as the reason.
“So which Hollywood perverts got to him as a child?”
that was my first thought as well ...
Lots of homosexuals have children.
"Easy, baby! And what’s with the sneering crap? Don’t do that to the people, they want to like you! That’s what killed Dennis Day – contempt for the audience."
It’s an odd story. I went back and found some articles from when they first found the body. Police claimed to have searched the house with cadaver dogs some time after he had been reported missing and came up with nothing.
Later played a babe in several shows. Wally's girlfriend, and the young thing that made Laura jealous on Dick Van Dyke and Samantha jealous on Bewitched.
She passed away from cancer in 2009.
Hollywood is extremely unhealthy for children and their viewers children. The phrase “her wife” is In the article of one killing six kids in 2018. Sodom and Gomorrah could have repented and lived. USA: Repent!
RIP.
A previous story in USA Today:
Lt. Jeff Price of Phoenix’s police told USA TODAY two months ago that Day’s car was found about 200 miles away on the Oregon coast in the possession of two strangers who claimed Day had let them borrow it.
It was impounded by Oregon State Police and later searched, but there was no sign of foul play, Price said.
I assumed that it referred to the dna and that there was an inability to use dental records.
I thought that DNA evidence was more durable than that.
Lovely girl. At first glance, I thought
she had been photographed sitting on a toilet.
Thanks, she really was pretty.
I don't know but I would think so too.
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