Body found identified as Mouseketeer

"Our family would like to take this opportunity to tell you that the remains found at Dennis and at the home of (her husband) Ernie have been officially identified as our beloved brother and uncle, Dennis Day." The cause of death is currently This is the subject of an investigation by the Oregon State, so the police will not comment or answer any questions at this time, "said the message.

"Our family is really grateful to the Oregon State Police for helping to put an end to his family so that we can finally let Dennis rest. We love you, brother and uncle. Dennis! "

The body was found on April 5, but by that time the police had not specified where and how long it had been there or how it might have been forgotten during previous searches.

Day, 76, a Mouseketeer at Disney's Mickey Mouse Club for two years in the mid-1950s, had not been seen since July 2018, when he was missing from Phoenix, in the center of the rural area from Oregon.

Dennis Day and Ernest Caswell on their wedding day in 2011. (Photo: Picasa via Phoenix, Oregon., Police)

He has left behind his beloved dog and dog and his partner for more than 45 years, Ernest Caswell, who has memory-related dementia problems, was hospitalized after a fall, and then transferred to an institution. assisted care.

Partly because of Caswell's medical problems, there was a delay of two weeks in reporting Day's disappearance to the police; his family was only informed six months later and only heard about it in local newspapers.

According to Lt. Jeff Price, second in command of the tiny Phoenix Police Department, Day's dilapidated houses and properties were searched, along with local cemeteries and channels.

Day's car was found about 200 miles off the coast of Oregon, in the possession of two strangers who claimed Day had let him borrow it. It was impounded by the state police and later searched, but there was no evidence of foul play, said Price.

Day's sister, Nelda Adkins, 75, of Coalinga, California, feared the worst when she spoke at USA TODAY in February.

"In the current state of things, unless we find a body, we will not find it," she said.