Dennis Day is known as being one of the original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers. He was just 12 years old back in 1955 when he was hired to appear on the show but that was a long time ago and only a small part of Dennis’ life. Fast forward 63 years to July 15, 2018, now 76-year-old Dennis Day allegedly told his roommate that he was going to visit some friends for a few days and left on foot with his dog from his home in Phoenix, Oregon. Two days prior, Dennis’ husband, Ernie, was taken to the hospital by ambulance after a fall. Ernie suffers from some memory problems, and was unable to describe what Dennis looked like currently, who his friends were, or if he had any family. In the eight months since Dennis disappeared, his loved ones have embarked on a mission to find out what happened to him, but have been left with more questions than answers.
UPDATE- On April 4, 2019, remains were located inside Dennis Day’s home. The remains have not been identified yet.
June 6, 2019 UPDATE- The remains found back in April of 2019 have been identified as Dennis Day.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Dennis Day, please call Lieutenant Price with the Phoenix Police Department at 541-535-1113, extension 309.
You can follow Dennis’ story on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FindDennisDay/
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ass on it and my nephew, who lived
miles away, saw it and reported it to me and that's when I called the police department see that Dennis's cars steal their finances haven't been touched. He left his animals that she loved dearly. This isn't my brother nobody's come forward to me
just say: hey. I saw dennis on this day, typically what we find when we get a missing person, nine times out of
and they're usually found at a friends house than usual warm
dementia patients washed away from the hall we find downstream, typically,
their found rather quickly, we have an excellent search and rescue team. The county does
you're talking for wheelers horseback helicopters. I mean all the stops come out on this budget.
ok, I'm announced two weeks behind them. The ball already. No idea
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dennis day is well known as being one of the original mickey mouse club musketeers. He was just
twelve years old back in nineteen fifty five when he was hired to appear on the show, but that was
some time ago and only a small part of denisov life fast forwards,
Sixty three years to July, fifteenth, two thousand and eighteen
now. Seventy six year old, Dennis day told his roommate that he was going to visit some friends for a few days and left on foot from his home
Phoenix Oregon too,
he's prior Dennis husband, ernie, was taken to the house
by ambulance after a fall and he had been
he's in a nursing home, because our home was not considered safe by law enforcement and hospital staff dennis.
has been ernie, suffers from some memory problems and was unable to describe what dennis look like currently who his friends were, or if you
any family.
eight months since Dennis disappeared. His loved ones have embarked on a mission to find out what happened to him, but they ve been left with more question
than answers. Amorous.
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Dennis is long time friend roseanne rosy,
spearheaded the search for dennis after his disappearance last summer and runs the facebook page
aimed at helping to find him. She too
is how she met dennis after high school. I look
southern california and arrangements there was brought tonight
tension- and I were
That is the greatest thing in the world and then a high school further mines cheap
involved with despair and one reason she did his girls. She lived at north by that time and her english
teacher was an actor the fair and got the class participating, and now she began
brains, with against immediately when the third came downstairs
after that northern share
I and another friend, sir doing it
immediately, I met dennis. She was a very important directive for the fair
the time now is a volunteer, and he
Ask me in the big pageant that was done at the fair, which
answered the queen, show and
he had written and
he acted in. He was so smart and talented and inventive, and
and all those things- and we just had a mutual sense of you
We hung up
They got involved with earlier moved up to san Francisco. Nine by that time was in oakland. I
ernie, we hell, we saw each other back and forth.
Dinner over there. They have dinner over at my house. There's like those love to cook. We both
animals. That was another connection when I've gotten
does a young woman that did not last but earning was my was the person who married asked dennis move to feed
were again in the nineteen eightys, with his husband, ernie casbah, the pair
were well known around town as the couple with larger than life personalities Dennis
an early spent many years active in the local renaissance festivals own
a gourmet mustard company and sang in a community men's choir.
Rosy and shared some of the ways that dennis and Ernie engaged in the activities and their local community and what their
It was like
did wine jellies at the fair for a few more affairs, and then they move to Oregon very few people really have
and since then he became a bit of a recluse too could be at base is a very shy person. It was just doing that acting persona
kind of allowed him to be out.
Erin engaged when I started the page with it
about a week maybe a week and a half I have three hundred and fifty members most of them had been people, you know who knew them directly and most of them warfare people, although certain amount of the oregon
book rosalie, admit dennis when they were young, but she hasn't seen him in over thirty years. I wanted to.
an idea of what Dennis was like later in life, so we spoke
his an earnest close friend kirk, who resides not far
we're dennis and ernie lived in, phoenix Oregon kirk spoke about how he met the pair
probably been their best friend in the last fifteen years,
but only because we, both volunteered and working with the gay community, so that's none there, and then he- and I and three other gentlemen were the were the starters of the
delegations. Chorus which had a run of above
well views so saying. With early
Twelve years in that no dennis who form
jews, adult life, it has been a bit reclusive because he just didn't tolerate lots of people live outside a phoenix, so it became quickly
An extra lots of time with them will be the last stretch of years and then issues at the nurse because orphans, medical
He just didn't accept everybody in so I reached out to him
to lose, even
several years of adventure with early before he really exciting
like me me me
He loved life in a big way, but it didn't have time for lots of people
passion over the over the last years was you'd love these figures, so he went to yard sale every friday Saturday. My favorite comment about
it'd be kind of a leprechaun flitted about an end
He always wore crazy ads.
In early both we will take them on down the thing
was a favorite place to go, get a variety of food
an early would wear this outlandish red velvet compelled him and then is always had some loud had assembled
The government, the loud colors at me, like do you care
He was an amazing actor and quite become
TAT answered one of them
restoring the words of our was one day service that he actually worked within it as a bank
in the early days.
It was always he was always cutting the map and would step out of the elevator to start tap dancing, and everybody would stop what they were doing and gathered round. He loved living
I believe in being the being out there and the care less what I thought he was on my front porch the day
Lastly, mainly by these incidents
I need your help.
So what would mean amnesia?
open getting their out of my house. He told me that then at assaulted knocked him down
two weeks before ernie, was moved to a nursing home alone.
he and demanding Daniel had moved in with them to work on cleaning up their house and help with ernie's care two days prior
Who is disappearance Dennis husband, ernie fell and had to be done.
into the hospital. The local authorities,
had determined that it was unsafe for early to return home in the house
staff arranged for him to be placed at a nearby nursing home according
so the roommate Daniel on July fifteen dennis
old him that he was going to visit some friends and left on foot.
I was never seen or heard from again
on July, seventeenth, two thousand and eighteen just today.
After Daniel says that Dennis left on foot the police
department, received a welfare check request from the hospital.
Were concerned. That Dennis had not come to visit early and they were able to reach him
an officer went out to the home and noted that the car was there, but there was no one inside an offer.
I want to speak to early, who mentioned that Dennis had told him that he was leaving for a couple days.
Which is similar to what Daniel had said. One aspect:
this case. Is that, while Daniel claims that Dennis walked away, how could he have
the visit friends without a car or any money after Dennis vanished
police officer, made contact with the annual and made a strange discovery, phoenix
his department. Lieutenant price is investigating dennis case he spoke with.
about what had transpired is well known: the boys
We stop him all the time and what are the odds
contact at him. He had a war and, I believe, were detained or whatever and dirt.
A search of his person, the officer located the debit card autumn,
Daniel had an explanation for why he had dennis debit card? He said that
given to him, so he could purchase groceries for the home on
twenty six. Eleven days after Dennis was last seen his car.
Found on the coast of oregon more
two hundred miles away, but dennis
wasn't in it lieutenant price
What does who was in the car and how it was discovered by law enforcement,
stating what happened was they got called to a domestic between a meal
Female with a white car at like a gas station or mini market type. Stop the trooper arrived found. Those two still arguing. No evidence of that.
I think assault, but neither one of a matter life and when asked about the vehicle she says she was borrowing it.
A friend of hers in phoenix named Dennis day. She had the keys, so he chose to encounter
he called because need warm and licence or proof reinsurance and may not
sent them on their way in out of the car that was on the twenty sixth of july on the twenty seventh of July are
I got called back to the house for another welfare check. Hey see. If Dennis is there ernie wants to see him? I started looking into it. I saw that we had been by there like this was like the third or fourth time for a welfare check. I had my clerk check a dennis and ernie for any vehicles.
Has she found that the white port escort belong to them and it showed that it was encountered the day before
the coast. I reach our joy. I speak today tell me about this and they said: do you know what I'd find out dennis withdrawal?
They said no resisting people, and I said: ok, this is
and of odd. You know this is now this through the monkey wrench in their. So then I went to ernie and talked to ernie and honestly,
I basically coach the men to say: yes, I, yes, I want to follow MR persson report
it ever called. As reporting and missing, I went to ernie and city
You have any idea where he is he. Nobody could be
the anybody I can call. No, no, no, I mean ernie couldn't
Tell me. What do I look like right now?
if I dunno where he is- and you don't know where he is, would you like me to list them as a missing person that we, when the police contact them, then you know we can check on him? And he said yes, so that's what started the missing person thing after the car was located
They identify the two people inside as lorry and curtis seclusion. Lieutenant price wanted to talk to them in
to find out what they knew about denisov disappearance, but he will
exactly sure where to find them, because they are known as transience in the area. Lieutenant
please enter the flag onto Curtis in NC ic and when he
to visit his probation officer. Both
he and lorry were directed to contact lieutenant price. This is what
inspired after last week, I got a call from
probation he showed up for his first curtis did for his first meeting with his probation officer, and I think it was from either theft or domestic one of the.
That's what they call me and I ll show up, and then he agreed to talk to me. Even the is a little reluctant, but me he's a little rough, but I talked to him. You know he was cooperative and everything and then
I told him, I said I needed to talk to Lori I said: can you get a message to Lori and by the time I got back to my office,
message on my far from worry, say: hey you wanna talk me, but I call him back nothing and that she got contacted again. I was unable to make that work. Is she I contacted the method and then on saturday,
She showed up at the office, so within three days I had heard, and we were talking she made a great effort to come. Talk to me so, like I said,
Courtesy first time show up to me is broken
not sure which tells me you haven't been in too much trouble, maybe
She admitted that she's the one they got here, both on drugs a few years ago, so it sounds right. He was fairly beaten guy before
I don't hear their name very often in leicester being contacted for parking somewhere, the nostrils, the parker anything like tat, so they're, not there.
We not as well known as the annual I'm sure there,
they a name for himself now just being transient shoplifting site. That kurdish didn't. Give me too much. Mostly Curtis was about the time that
we were in the vehicle corti to him and lorry, and then laterally Curtis has never been to the house. Lorry went to the house herself and showed up at Curtis his father's house what the car said. Let's go you jumped in a word to get the car. She told him that she that the annual gave it to him now,
or her or because she was helping clean up the house and ah so then they left and started heading towards the coast. Kurdish told me that he thought that the that they were in the car for about four or five nights,
Laurie says it was only to night. So I have some. I have an issue with the timeline there.
but according to lorry, she went to her
In the other female showed up at the house, they met Daniel at the local circle K Daniel bought her a pack of cigarettes, invited them over. They go to the house, that's the first time. Lore has been to the house. They go to the house. Laurie gets a bad impression because Daniel's acting strange
It sounds like he was under the influence of meth. In fact, later on that evening, he actually was snorting meth her.
as a female got nervous. They saw some keys. Laurie said: hey, let's get outta here, let's just see, if any of these keys work for the car, they found the key to the escort she took the car. She
admitted that she took the car and she admitted to me. She didn't have permission to
She also took a laptop out of the house, so she leaves their picks up. Curtis
They stay with the night on the way to the coast. They pull over somewhere, they stay the night and then they make it too
I would say stay one more night, then they're contacted by o s p in the cars impounded, and this was just
last saturday. I got her was off duty and I got a call she was here. I came right in in right off the bat.
Brought her in the office and, I said, look you know you're free to go.
You don't either under arrest, there's the door all that kind of stuff- and I said, but I do have to let you know I have to read your rights just because you know it's way worse and she goes that's fine. She goes I'm probably going to implicate myself and I said: ok, we'll go. You know. Eventually she says yeah I took
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No one truly knows who the last person to see Dennis was, but his friend kirk
leave said it was either himself or Daniel, based on the fact that
here from Dennis again after offering to take him to the police department in order to report the physics.
altercation. He had had with Daniel, not
we who last saw or spoke to dennis
or even the exact time of his disappearance has made
for him. All the more difficult lieutenant pray
is spearheading a law enforcement investigation into dennis's disappearance. He told us what he knows
The day ernie went to the hospital in some
events that took place prior to dennis disappearance. I dont know exactly what day,
ernie wench of a nursing home but July. Thirteen was the day he was transported from the residence by ambulance to the hospital.
He went to the nursing home for you for a couple reasons. One probably
visa dementia to his
physical limitations, because he was following quite a bit and I dont know what that was caused from. But he was following a lot and also the house that he would have been brought back to their home was not in the shape where people should be living in the just. Wasn't sanitary satan,
far structurally. Yes, it's fine, you know, but they shift. It was not sanitary. I mean there there's evidence a rat's there's, you know
things covered and like it does you dirt rhyme but
Yes said, their house was not in a very good condition and I believe I told
either a nurse or somebody working with him. I said: look you know, there's nothing
Nobody there to take care of the house is not a condition. You know that I think affair.
friend of theirs, who actually became ernie's p away up turkey. I think card stepped in and help get him into
the home. Knowing that going back home would not be a good place to go, so
Tenant price also spoke about what he knows about ernie's friend kirk and the room.
Daniel that was hoping, denizen ernie around the house in exchange for a room and board new daniel for about five years. He hired Daniel to do some work around his brow.
In the beginning, Daniel was
nor boy he did the work he did. He did good work according to kirk, but then he started some of his men
we started to show among, on top of some drug use, turkey
Julie, introduced Daniel to denison early and offer Daniel to go by the house for them to do some guard work and what not periodically
that turned into probably around I haven't, haven't pinpointed the exact day, but something
in neither late mayor sometime in june
Daniel showed up at denison urge this house to do some work
and somehow he's up in a room. They they gave him
they let him stay in a room. So there were some type of agreement, type thing something was done to wear anything like it was probably ernie who instigated it
but you know basically hey why don't you stay here? Help their ernie falling step Dennis can pick em up, so I think part of it was hey. Now I got another purse.
Here to help me get up, so the Dennis doesn't have to do it all plus gang. Who could do your work in? What's so, they beat
Let him stay there in exchange for work run the house, but he was introduced by Kirk, but he was not unwelcome.
Was I mean he was unwelcome by dennis toward the end? That sounds like has covered dennis, wasn't too happy with them and that, based on
kirk telling me that Dennis came to correct house that's a day,
I need to get them out of their assaulting me or abused in me you're one of those two words.
Kirk said? Well? What are you talking about what happened, but he said he he assaulted me and Kirk said well, let's go to the police
it was a sunday he knows or offices closed on sunday as far as the building goes so then they decided they were going to come on monday to come, talk to us and that's when Dennis said he had to go to walmart. The fixers phoned kirk, never heard from Dennis again after that, so it sounds like Dennis, didn't really want Daniel there now when
interview, Daniel gang of claims that Dennis was also experiencing some dimension,
because one minute he would have them go out and do some good radiating yemeni come in dennis would say
He'd get out of here. You know he was, he was put popping. His is his emotions and abducent coming from the annual movement
self has militias and possibly something to do with it. So
Daniel sounded suspicious to me. After looking at,
extensive criminal record. I started to wonder if he and Denis had gotten into some kind of fight and Denis was injured, lieutenant
is shared that Daniel was known to law enforcement in the area and whether or not he thinks Daniel could have hurt. Dennis oh, is well known. I mean phoenix is in a valley, it's not a major city, but for us it's a bigger city,
medford and then you know we're we're all in line a lot along the highway and ah, but we all pretty much work together
for the most part in yes, he is very well known throughout law enforcement, mainly for trespass. You know em shoplifting. The way gagnon comes across to me is, let's say
I did get into an argument and they did go too far in Daniel. Did you know something happened to Dennis? I see Daniel, dropping everything and running it. I don't think he has
I mean I could be totally off. I mean I'm not hang in my hair on that. I'm just saying that my
use. Would daniel my contacts with Daniel is he would just take off
and probably not be around. Here I mean he's he remained here in phoenix four months. You know
these transient, but I mean he never distance himself, those none of that so, but then there could be a minnow. His mental health issues too. I mean
you know we tried to arrest him one day on a working flat out was light.
Nino, I don't have a warn. You got the wrong guy or a duty to you. You know we take you to jail all of them, you know so
There's been some speculation about how Daniels recent move into Denison ernie's house plays into dennis disappearance
work- has known daniel for several years. So we asked him to tell us more about Daniel. You know none improve
the five years. At one point I would, I would say we were friends. I tried to be of help to him, but he's not a very big guy meter me is very strong.
Person and typically very, very peaceful, but one of the things you don't do it
undoubtedly the things you start doing, that
bets better anything is possible, so
Actually, the person do introduced an there lies a ban for about five years,
I've been working. Doing some outside work for me- and I would
an iron him to go in and make an attempt to try to clean up.
I also a little bit their houses in them
most unlivable
notice. It was. It was really horrible, but I would hired an and then, as they had a few dollars now and they would hired as well to help dentists in,
then the yard and the house, some and
there have become homeless head
russia's with the law
when he work for them
and they would let him stay and agro accused
that you would have shelter and so that
I don't know how long, but typically only a few days time
That was one of those sessions and he said
get them out, ok well, and then he told me that damn at assaulted had been knocked him down.
It's gonna be very angry, and I said well, one with difficulties you have is important
you days, they certainly have spread, see any can escape him up. There's no hunting
you hear that.
It actually done by the police department, but guess it was sunday the police were close and he said, thou nine, one, one in which he was reluctant to do that.
Then he needed was. She had bought a new phone from Walmart Martin.
You didn't know how to work. Well, I'm sick, Egypt
that generation and so technically challenges it. I barely.
understand my own until I suggested designate upon interpreted
Why don't you go back to walmart?
Joe. You had a market mitchell. The abbot up annoying,
I said, then give me a call and I'll meet you I'll go down
department with you and you can have the police called and navigate that. Well,
I do have a different view from him. The rest after me
the sin an arm,
but there was no big deal
within the next couple of days. That was not the case that to me he missing another
peace. To this story is that one of dennis and ernie's neighbours has come forward with some information. According to her,
She heard two men on the property arguing and heard one of them say you tried to kill me this neighbour,
so found a note on her property that concerned her enough to go to the police
rose, and on that a note by dancing his handwriting
stand by the neighbour, sherry workmen in her drives away, and I do not have a date as to when that was found that something I would like to know she said
but she took it to the police immediately and didn't get that directly from her that that eventually she put on the page or that I got from the family who talk to her.
But supposedly when she found the note she took it to the police. Me leah was later dropped onto lieutenant prices desk shortly after he opened and missing persons case. He had not been aware of its existence,
for that. So I dont know when that note was found. It was dated the for cheap and tested,
and you'll, have to get him in the head and hands. It also stated that dam threatened his life, but that part of the note had been scribbled over in the same pen that wrote the note that threatened my life part the scribbled over.
The way the law appeared, a gave dams name, but in a way,
Let me look at this again. Might have signed the note, though, that doesn't make sense. It's been verified by the family unit was dealt with handwriting. We note the note had a bad address that had it had the house addressed will have the wrong signal.
name on it? We asked lieutenant price about the note and he confirmed that the address.
ass was incorrect. It listed the address as ninth street, but Dennis lived on pines
strangely enough. Lieutenant price also mention that they don't even have a ninth street there. He said
no also has an area code for a phone number, but not the rest of the number lieutenant
confirmed what roseanne said about the body of the note and added that it said he assaulted me and I, but the I
with scratched out
The letter was signed with Daniels name, not genesis, which is strange
firmly believes that the note is written in Dennis handwriting, but that is
something that has been confirmed by any kind of expert. We know that dennis
cell phone that has never been recovered. He had told turkey
going to walmart to get some help with it by the timely ten
price got. This information Dennis had been missing for about three weeks and the phone appeared to be off since
time. A phone number has been reassigned, lieutenant price
still working to obtain more information about the phone windy and.
spoke to retain a price. He said
Dennis said he was going to visit friends and left on foot with his dog. Well, the dog was
her found. I could see Dennis taking his dog and leaving
I'm thinking he's got to go somewhere, but I don't I don't know where he would go. I noticed their friend Kirk peterson was going to take dennis to the police department. You know a dentist had told Kirk that Dan had been him and Kirk had offered to take him to the police, depart
and they found his dog. I will not believe anything else Dennis would never leave without his dog below supposedly the answer that he that that does was carrying the the dog, but the neighbors down.
The dog running lose. That's really. I know very well and dentist to other things. We shared with any then say
love and animals, and if it Dennis thought that Daniel was in any way shape or form dangerous, especially,
would not have left his dog. Very certainly would have been going away without you start would not have done it without by going to stay with friends. That's why I,
certain. There is no question my mind. There is no,
I my my way heard that fact that something bad happened again,
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while speaking to Kirk, we wanted to know more about ernie's health limitations and what caring for him in tat
four dennis did Dennis.
like he was no longer needed when ernie went into the nursing home and became depressed it had
We've been a few days so that doesn't seem like a realistic possibility. Kirk told us.
Were about some of ernie's health challenges and how he
stepped to help ernie after Dennis disappeared without dennis
care for ernie and take care of the household affairs kirk,
like someone needed to step in and act on, ernie's behalf
to manage the household finances and ensure that ernie was taken care of properly while its
were the ernie suffers from some memory loss. Kirk told us that he is not aware of an official diagnosis. I don't know
is actually had that diagnosis. What he does have a massive short term memory loss.
So you can't remember what he had breakfast or not. It's very entailed man that speaks five languages and was
The accomplishes on time and this week I take a lead in taking some.
hanging in his home and moving into his studio, Elizabeth, just a blurring living pictures of the budget.
everything you that when there was a special gift that to given to the dennis whenever
It is clear that beautiful,
I believe the name of it is homage to attach name leader,
welcome whatever
I of alluded that, because I question all the time and as it gets executive director,
before going to clean up and was looking at paying back so
It really is quite interactive. What he does have is that
I'll get you service companies year the clock back
as a low level diabetes, but you know he takes gave himself. He needs help.
We had living living that he couldn't date mom. Is that
nevertheless the brain drain
you're into his. He doesn't remember that didn't even there
as the dame what's downstairs, the comparability she said
during a gave me remembers only with large man three badly treated,
St James would earn with bob Dennis, couldn't physically get him to his feet and get back in the chair back then
the prototype papers- quite often the people, the fire department- would transport him to the hospital to check them out. Just make sure there was no
Probably add one of those values and done
to be the hospital and they keep up a couple days. This check about nature is in good shape
only was due to come home and Denis was on my part that sunday morning, museums and I need your help.
as a search for dennis commenced, roseanne Kirk and the
in its police departments. Lieutenant price immediately started looking for family members, but no one could
white. Remember who Dennis relatives were in this
the challenge in looking for answers, roseanne tone
it's what the search for dennis's family was like about. One of the things that the military had asked me right away was: have you heard anything about a sister, a sister of Dennis food, and at that point I couldn't really
amber. Interestingly, I remembered when somebody asked me if he was left
and I knew right away. He was as it sylvia as it might have been
and they all know why we did, but we couldn't remember if he had a sister
certainly not one that he would have been talking about a war, but maybe oh, she could a figure in one of his choice as early life, and I couldn't remember. I know that in recreating things
because it was one things I asked her to my ass other people
good night. I asked on the page, is ebay know about this. We
a friend who does certainly
genealogy kind of things. I picked him on choice, figure out of deference had sister Anne
couldn't come back with anything. Then somebody told me
yeah yeah. I think he didn't. I think her was velma.
So here I am looking for a velma didn't avail. My day
as the eu is boring gama day about, god found three velma days, none of whom were quite the right. A
you're right, I minor
So here I was dead in sight. I find it ironic that the
with trained so hard to find his family. But meanwhile,
you're not found in and when we finally did when one story with,
one relative of theirs thought Kirk told us about here.
search for Dennis family, I got
journey for earning very immediately. So I started this arduous process of green the bills and paying bills on his jackie,
and I take care of the fees, and I was picking up his mail, but initially they wouldn't. Let me identify as male and then this comical showdown with the post. Mistress of you pay for the rental of the box. You can have a key members.
he'll do until I was looking at eleven p m, as was looking for evidence does not like didn't get a phone book.
it was almost on the wall with some numbers on which included my number, but is this
it was not. It was his other sister cabbie women, since you found that getting passed away a couple years ago, and so
when I started picking up the mail when they finally started giving those well, it might be a christmas card from either of his sisters, and so here comes a christmas card from nelda. It's like okay, great, so I open it up. There's a christmas card number one christmas card was addressed to Dennis, I opened it up and there was a check for fifty
two dennis will note, I hope even earlier- didn't ok merry christmas
me replied the check out, I'm a businessman and so would be attentive
and never let it using here just yet
oh by the way there is the missing there, was exactly at that time in contact with them the website
Eventually, a new story was aired about dennis his disappearance. One of his.
to solve the story and called his sister nelega in order to let her know that her brother was missing since that time
nelson and her family members have joined the search we spoke to now
and asked her to describe her relationship with Dennis
well, and you know Dennis, and I my mother, thought that you know she wanted to make a great actress and actor out of it that kept dancing dual like fred, astaire and ginger rogers, most part time with
banter going to listen to you now dancing lessons and stop, and now you know in school, just regular kids thing and when he was about
five years old. He was higher than by these near one of the original musketeers that,
the limited our relationship, because he would get up, they will get up early in the morning and leave and not come home from asian,
so and then, by the time he got through with that, he went off to
agent and thought it I saw, but we had a good relations.
I when it was just a normal relationship of any brother and sister, our relationship- and I wasn't real close in the past years, because
wanted to kind of live his own life, the gay communities- and you know it
we'd go and visit him more occasion.
When my mother was alive, we saw him a lot more in there
he crises in Oregon and I'm in california- and I have my big ivan-
and lay down here and there and they would come
you're innocent ernie. His partner would come for christmas occasionally and then the after my mother passed that kind of kind of separated from their ten,
So anyway, what happened is I had gone
to see him in always check dawning because he kind of wanted to keep his life away from
the family, I don't know why. But I know I would send him cards and pictures of all the kids from the grand kid from the great drink and there he
I responded much, but my daughter and I find I'm the last time we saw him. We went up in two thousand and seventeen and we visited with him and
The time I didn't see any problems with his emotions, or here you know, has been stable.
I mentioned earlier that the police were unable to find family members of dennis when he first disappeared, but lieutenant price did look for them. He shut
what he did to attempt to locate Dennis family them
it doesn't go to the house? The mail goes to a post office box under ernie's name, Kirk has power of attorney. You know I told kark in the beginning. You know if you find something. Let me know
oh, and in the very beginning he told me he thought he that Dennis had a sister named nelda but wasn't sure the last name and thought she lived up in Veneta Oregon and I reached out to them to try to do what I can with the first name of nelda. Couldn't find anything. So that's what took so long is a just lack of information about Dennis
when lieutenant price began working on this case he went to visit ernie to try to gather more information. He told
His assessment of ernie's cognitive abilities. The day that I went there to talk to him. He was able to answer questions as far as where do you live types of, but when I asked him about Dennis what I asked him was, I said: well, the picture I have of Dennis is ten years old.
I said: what does his hair look like right now, like the last time you saw when you went to the hospital, what is her look, like I don't know, does he were a certain?
every day. Does he, where certain had every day? I don't know
he couldn't answer those questions,
napster me who any of his friends were wearing
to have gone anything like that. In that case right there. Then that made me think she's, you know I don't. I don't think he'd be able to work
legally answer anything either, but Kirk, whose we have regular contact with em, said that he has good days and badly
Those days were, he does remember loudness days where he doesn't. This
right- the concerns of Dennis family lieutenant price.
Has found no evidence that a crime occurred either in dennis his home or his car. I was looking at the walls. I was looking at the ceiling as look at it, the crevices lino, looking for each type of clean up or anything like that. Now I will say we the night, the Daniel had the two females over
the two treasure females, one of them being lorry they wanted to give you some laundry. Apparently he said: well, that's fine! You know why? Don't you guys help me clean up and stuff so, and there was a trash bags had not occurred to her, but to trash in it. You know nothing bloody, nothing like that with somebody obviously did tried a mob toward the back door by the bathroom, and but they didn't do a very good job and
it wasn't a very good mopping and I was looking at that rural close yesterday and there is still no evidence of any blood or anything I just smear dirt is what it is
Definitely no. If a section of the house had been cleaned, it would be so obvious. This property is
it's. It's not on the street. It's behind another house. It sits next to a cemetery, tiny, its old, it's decrepid. You know I just went by their yesterday because after my interview with lorry inclusion, she had said some things in the interview that made me go
maybe I should go. Look at the house again, you know and ass I went back by. I went up in the attic thy winter night train. He looked at far as I could in the cross space. You know where anybody could fit, and I checked all the cabinets I check chores. I checked the freezers, I checked everything. Obviously there was nothing there
We have difficult rotation, the police also search dennis car and lieutenant price, made a good point about how the car was so messy than any other.
Of a crime or a clean up after work would have been painfully obvious. He disk
I was located inside the vehicle.
Initially when I found out it was impounded. I call the tow company, I said: hey treated like evidence, I'm going to have somebody come look at it. I reached out to sp said: hey: can you guys go back there, search that car photographing? I'm looking for any,
it's a crime and I let them know the missing person. You know and suspicious circumstances whatever, and so they went back to the trooper, we're back out there. Photograph
I even had a merle ticker, a small little aluminum bad out of it that it had no
it's on it by looking at it, nothing on it, no dance, no blood. No, nothing and that's the other thing is it. It didn't look like, and I asked the trooper this and looking at the photos it didn't look like there was any passengers in the car. The two front seats were taken, but the back two had stuff on them, so property miscellaneous stuff, but- or so I mean
I feel like I've been as thorough as I can, but a a like. I said I mean I'm not some professional missing person magician or something I dunno
Dennis his family is understandably frustrated that they were not aware of his disappearance for so long. Additionally,
Malta is concerned about some of the things are going on in dennis his life and the events
inspired after his disappearance. This is what
Had to say they said tat ernie took us all.
And they called the ambulance and they hauled up early.
in the ambulance and well again
having a depression about taking care of burning and everything and though a friend the endless
Dennis didn't really like an he said. Let me
and this man over to liverpool and he'll help you and take care of your house and not at whatever the hell. This guy did come and ganesh didn't want him,
beat their dentist wanted to take care of her wanna get picture of the home, but that too
everybody out said now. This would be a good idea for this. Man came to live with him and he had previously lived with the man that since young
and the man send him there. Oh, yes, he didn't kill everybody this, but that he is. The man
it has a mental problem when he was on the mass
he would get drunk. Can
and he didn't want I'm living with them, though, he's bending over to live as my brother just supposedly to help, because it
mental faded. The man in the home and the police officers,
he he now he I I just can't believe you could do anything like that. But yet the man play
him. Their didn't want him in his home, because he would
drinking and on mass, then I mean I used to work at the prison in volunteer to the next
it's anonymous. I know how violent they can be on those drugs and data for the saying that he he was abusing him
and nobody did anything about it. Ernie is
and a rest home up there
in oregon, and here this gentleman the dirt
covering a t away, has got him on medicaid
and his team while taking care. They officer told me
and things that I personally went down and went through the house attic underneath the house.
the cemetery out back Baca. I don't know it's an old cemeteries. I walk through the cemeteries. I walk along as a greek there I walked along the street. He said I didn't
any signs of anything and that a knife I prefer away Preston supposedly
bringing in cadaver dogs. Now you're gonna be due to search.
in addition to some suspicion about Daniel nelson,
is also concerned about the role that Kirk played in introducing Daniel to Dennis and ernie, as we just
asked earlier. Kirk is now the power of attorney for ernie notable
that there may be some ulterior motives at play here. No man place
The man in my brother's home are weakened
the gate everything he has a prior of taking over appear way on on it
elderly woman and that's what he jumped right in fact appear way over
over ernie Andy,
and he he ha
didn't tell anybody, but he also has an antique store. Have the printing shop also
and we re looked it up on the d said it telling
a mickey mouse
our mascot memorabilia, and here it is
not ringing well with me, and I think he placed that man
and in my brother's home too, I don't
you go ahead and get rid of my brothers, so he could take over the way for his friend a lot at because it was just all all comes down to that man having people in that on that trick. Genesis car dennis disappeared, but I'm just
by Kirk, told us that he had only taken cities to sell and whose consignment store and solely for
purpose of paying the bills I checked out as well,
and this appears to be the case additionally
all profits from the sale of the cds go directly to benefit ernie, even though
cities are not a necessity. I wasn't sure whether or not this could possibly pose a conflict,
I wanted to learn more about organs, laws on elder care and the aging population. So I spoke with an attack.
from Oregon. My name is Brooks cooper.
And I have been a lawyer since nineteen ninety four, I practice in oregon washington and a variety of federal courts for about the path. Seventeen years, I have focused my practice on what I generally termed probate. Litigation
which includes financial abuse claims by the elderly. It includes content
fiduciary matters and
elder law matters, protecting elderly folks among many many other things,
again to sign a power of attorney. You have to have
but the law called contractual capacity, which is the highest level of mental functioning
we gave in the lot it's what everyone over the age of eighteen is presumed to have and its generally sufficient cod
Their ability to handle your affairs as a reasonably prudent person would the way that I like to sort of phrase. It is
you're on the ball enough that you could go to a used car lot and knock it taken advantage of by the car salesman. You gotta have that capacity to grant a power of attorney. There are two:
flavors in oregon of powers of attorney one, is simply a power of attorney babbling.
Only valid so long as you the grant or also retain full capacity? So if you grant the power of attorney and then you have a stroke, you get dementia whatever, then the agents authority lapses.
if you intend the agents authority to contain you, no matter what your capacity, which is usually what people who grant powers of attorney want, then you grant which hold a durable power of attorney, which specifically, can
It is for the remainder of your life, even if you yourself lose capacity to manage your affairs
So an agent under a power of attorney, the technical, tidal when you're in age and under a power of attorney, is you are the attorney. In fact, ok, I spoke to an attorney at law.
One of the things that I asked Mr Cooper is if the power of attorney would be expected to pay ernie's bills and if it would be excessive,
the ball to sell off some of his assets in order to pay those spells. This is what
had to say the general.
The jury duty is to manage the grant whores assets in common affairs for their benefit. So if there are bills that need to be paid and
is no income to pay them, then it is appropriate to look at selling some asset or perhaps taking a reverse mortgage on the home things that you may need to do to generate money. But yes, if you're the power of attorney and
water bill is delinquent or the mortgages overdue or whatever. Then you should be doing what you can to use their assets to get their debts paid, so they don't go into foreclosure. Have their water turned off whatever the bad act is if you're selling it in your own consignment shop. That's a bit problematic because the law expects the attorney. In fact, not to use their
our to personally benefit. So you know I'd need to know more facts, but if this person is going to get whatever their consign east cut of the sale prices, maybe that's appropriate. Maybe not you know if there's ten consignment shops and his is the most expensive- maybe not, but maybe this is the most efficient way to turn those cds into money. Assuming that needs to be
in any case, we heard Kirk talk about how ernie suffers from some memory loss someone with these kinds of help
once may not have the capacity to understand what they're doing when they sign over power of attorney? So
asked mister cooper about this and whether or not a familiar relationship matters in these situations, that govern differ based upon what your relationship is. If the person was impaired at the time the power of attorney was granted, so we have a question whether the agent ever validly had power. Not ideally someone who cares about the grant. All
which stepping during their life and open a protective proceeding in work, and we called at a conservator ship or we ask the court- could deem them financially incapable and then appoint someone to manage the money like an attorney, in fact, but its appointed by the court and that person accounts to the court every year they must pose to bond is alot of restriction. So things don't go right. If no one step the in prior to the persons death, then to the extent the attorney, in fact
dissipated the estate spent money that didn't need to be spent, whoever the heirs are, who are receiving a smaller inheritance or the devil's ease if they had a will or the creditors. If there's not enough money to pay the last bills and there would have been but for the bad acts, any of them have the authority to challenge the grant of the power of attorney and ask the court to declare that at the time of his granted, the person didn't have capacity and-
the agent knew it because of the agent is purely an opponent has no idea that doing something wrong. It's obviously a more difficult situation, but the court can declare that the power of attorney was invalid when granted and then scrutinise the agent conduct of the agent. You know just simply transferred things to themselves in a very easy sense. We can either get that back or impose a money judgment for the value of it. If it's gone, so those things can be rectified after death. It's much preferable to do it during life, because we can stop the bleeding as it were, and stop the loss assume for a moment that the grant or lack of capacity, the attorney, in fact none. The less goes out an act and everything they do is exactly proper and is what should be done while they haven't.
Any harm, even though they may be technically acting without authority if they haven't caused any harm, it's kind of a no harm, no foul. Finally, we need to know what steps we can take, no matter where we live to best, prepare ourselves for the later stages of life. This is dead.
Please, Mister cooper had to offer so at this point the things that all of us who are you know facing aging and as as most folks age, they will experience some level of mental decline. One thing to do is
select a trusted friend or family member, who ideally is at least ten years younger than you to whom you can grant a durable power of attorney, or another thing to do is think about creating as an estate planning tool, a trust to place your assets in the trust and have the trust have a mechanism to trigger when you need to stop being your own trustee, and your chosen trusted successor can step in to manage your assets, because there are all kind of in one place at that point another,
is simply to talk to those in your. U yours circle, whether it you're given family or those who have chosen to make part of your life and make sure,
or just generally aware of your condition and and your wants and desires, and on the physical or medical side or to execute an advanced directive so that, if something very catastrophic happens- and you can't, can you
Ok, your wish is about end of life. Care are already known. Ass. She sat
I wrote him out all of those who thinks it can and should be done. And frankly, I argue that you don't once we become sort of adults in this world, it's time to start thinking about that, because there is no rule that says that you can't have some medical catastrophe at eight thirty, eight, you don't have
the eighty for this to happen to you. So what happened to dennis day on July fifteenth, two thousand and eighteen. This is the case with
lot going on, but only a few clues to go on. We know that Dennis told Kirk that Daniel had hit him
and Daniel says that Dennis walked away with his dog sing
was going to visit some friends and the door
was later found running loose, lieutenant,
price says that he's found no evidence that a crime was committed in the house or the car. We
laurie stole the car and a laptop, but she's been forthcoming about that
that has her suspicions about Kirk's motives and all this, but lieutenant price says the kirk has been helpful and cooperative.
Kirk was also very open to speaking with us about the case and the fact that he stepped up
to help ernie and denis absence in whatever that weird note the neighbour found
dennis, really walk away on foot with his dog as Daniel has claimed. If he did, where did he go.
Was he despondent over ernie and simply walked away? Has he
for some sort of health crisis and just hasn't been found, or did so
one harm dennis why
would he voluntarily disappear with just the clothes on his back? Dennis disappearances,
just loved ones, and law enforcement with so many questions and not a whole lot of clues to go on at the time
with its disappearance Dennis day was seventy six years old. He was described as
five foot, seven inches tall and weighing approximately one hundred and fifty pounds, he has brown
gray, hair and brown eyes. If you have
any information about the disappearance of Dennis day. Please,
lieutenant price but the phoenix police department at five for one five, three five one one, one three
extension, three o nine. You can
follow, dennis the story on facebook at find Dennis day,
my first
because if
they're, like many elderly gay people, that back in the day when the violence,
the baby.
You, the children and is it. Then
Diana Ass one david,
You know you have a very beside me than by the video chatting worlds
to me, the tamil people, to interact with them to help them. To be honest with,
You be in such a small department and we ve had so much turn over. We lost so many guys to our local sheriff's office, just because
bathroom more things you offer offerings for them better, so we're training new guy saw me name. We don't
there are many long term experience officers
let it be the chief. You know we ve been on the longest and honestly I've never been detected I'd. Never. I have always been street level, and so I learned
these every single time and this one here at what the law, because it's been opened for so long at this time. Yes, I have
thing that screens to me and voluntary. You know laurie, I told her. I should look. You understand that I can a rusty right now for the story of a car. You admitted to me and she was young, I said, but the bigger picture is dennis,
I said I would rather have you help me, which means I could probably help you. You know if this thing goes right, I said, but under
and they knew very well may be charged with the task of the car and the computer here in the future, and she said she was, I understand them and she still being cooperative. So the logical thing look
from the outside reading. All those articles you gonna, look again, you know everything.
look at Daniel,
who's. The guy that live there he's the one who supposedly assaulted, even though we ve never gotten the call for an assault.
I know the logical thing is to look at Daniel, but I have looked at Daniel. I've done what I can with Daniel. I don't think he's playing dumb. When I talked to him, I mean we, we've dealt with him so much that you know it's the same, every single time,
and that's not to say he didn't do anything. But at this point I have nothing if anybody
as an information about the whereabouts of dense day. I would greatly appreciate a phone call. Now you can reach me directly at my office said five for one five, three five one one.
one. Three extension: three, zero. Nine.
The.
The
That brings us to the end of episode, one hundred and sixty eight
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