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Human remains found at home of Dennis Day, original Mouseketeer missing for months
Police in Oregon this week discovered a corpse at the home of Dennis Day, an original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer who has been missing for more than eight months.
There has been no positive identification or cause of death released on the human remains, the Oregonian reported, citing a police statement. Authorities have yet to release more details about how the body was found. Day, 76, who appeared on the variety show from 1955 until its end in 1957, vanished in July 2018 after he reportedly told his husband, Ernie Caswell, that he was going to visit friends. Caswell, who has dementia and lives in an assisted living facility, reported his partner’s disappearance to police days later on July 15.
Day’s car was discovered near the Oregon coast about 200 miles away from his home on July 26 in the possession of two people “unfamiliar” to the couple, but there was no evidence of a crime having been committed or that Day was in the vehicle, Phoenix police Lt. Jeff Price told Fox News in March. Price also said at the time that both Day and Caswell were “reclusive” and their home was in “very, very poor shape.” He added that Caswell’s memory loss made it difficult to get crucial details for the investigation.