A body discovered at a home in Oregon in April is that of Dennis Day, an original Mouseketeer on 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' his family and police said.
A body discovered at a home in Oregon in April is that of Dennis Day, an original Mouseketeer on"The Mickey Mouse Club," his family and police said Thursday.Day, who would have turned 77 next month, was reported missing last July, his sister, Nelda Adkins,. Day's husband, Ernie Caswell, was hospitalized at the time and reported Day missing when he stopped visiting.
A body found April 4 at Day's and Caswell's home in Phoenix, Oregon, near Medford, was too decomposed to immediately identify, Oregon State Police said at the time. Day's family said in a statement Thursday that the body had been identified as Day's. State police said Thursday night that the state medical examiner's office had confirmed the identification.Day, who had already appeared in a movie,"A Lion Is in the Streets," was 12 years old in 1955 when he was signed to appear as a Mouseketeer on"The Mickey Mouse Club TV," one of the most popular shows of the early days of American television.
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