- Family searching for original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer Dennis Day, missing from Oregon since July 2018 His body was found on April 5, 2019 by the police. On June 6, 2019 it was later confirmed that it is identified as Dennis Day who has been declared dead.
- Day, 76, had been missing for nearly a year before police announced they had found his body in June, two months after discovering his remains in his southern Oregon home.
- Day's husband, Henry "Ernie" Caswell, who suffers from memory loss, reported him missing in July 2018. Caswell was hospitalized at the time. Day reportedly "left his dog with a friend on the day he disappeared," and his car was "found at the Oregon coast" later that month. Also in July, neighbors complained of a foul smell coming from Day's home, prompting police to search the property. It wasn't until April 2019 that Day's remains were discovered in his home with the help of a cadaver dog, reported CNN. In June 2019, Daniel James Burda was arrested in connection with Day's death and disappearance. Burda was charged with second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, abuse of a corpse, identity theft, and more. Burda has called the charges "messed up.".
- Dennis Day held a same sex wedding ceremony and married his partner Ernest Caswell in 2011.
- Day was reportedly last seen on July 17, 2018after his husband Caswell, who has dementia, was admitted to the hospital after a fall.
- On July 5, 2019, Oregon State Police arrested a former handyman in connection to Day's death. The man, 36-year-old Daniel James Burda, was charged with several crimes in connection with Day's death, including manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and identity theft.
- Dennis Day and his partner Caswell moved in the mid-1980s to Oregon, first settling in Ashland, and then in Phoenix, where they had a house. Caswell also worked for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, while Day made and sold wine jelly and worked seasonally for Harry & David (American-based premium food and gift producer and retailer).
- Day married Henry Ernest Caswell, his partner since the early 1970s, in 2009.
- He came out as gay to his family and moved to San Francisco when he turned 18, though he later told a Rolling Stone interviewer in 1971 that he was bisexual and had used drugs.
- Day reportedly left on foot, telling a third housemate, a live-in handyman, that he was going to visit friends, but his cat and dog were left behind, and the dog was found roaming by neighbors. One neighbor had a letter written by Day mentioning being assaulted by the handyman, who told police that Day was also exhibiting signs of mental problems. After Day was reported missing, his car was found in the possession of people approximately 200 miles (320 km) away in Coos County, who said that they had permission to take it,according to the police possibly in exchange for helping the handyman. In August 2018, police searched the property after neighbors complained of a "bad smell". Friends began asking for help locating him starting in November that year, and in February 2019, after his family learned of his disappearance, his case was featured on an episode of Dateline NBC.
- After ending his career as a child actor, he went on to work as a theater director before relocating to Oregon in the 1980s.
- He worked in the 70's as an actor and dancer, including at Theatre La MaMa in New York and in Los Angeles.
- He started acting at age six and after auditioning with his sister, was a Mouseketeer for the first two seasons of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1955-1957. At age 13, he appeared in a minor uncredited role in the film A Lion Is in the Streets (1955) with James Cagney.
- Day and his partner Caswell at one time ran a guesthouse for gay actors in San Francisco; from the 1960s until the early 1980s,.
- Day disappeared in 2018, was found dead later that year, and a roommate was charged for his death in 2019.
- Day worked for the Living History Centre, producing Renaissance and Dickens Christmas fairs, playing Newington Butts at the Renaissance fairs and also coaching other actors.
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