2 Oregon Women Accused of Stealing from a Dead Mouseketeer

In Oregon, the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office charged Wanda Garcia and Lori Declusin with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle for allegedly taking a 1990s Ford Escort station wagon belonging to the deceased Dennis Day, and original member of the Mickey Mouse Club. Day’s body had been discovered in his home in April after he had been missing for almost a year, as he had last been seen on July 15 of 2018.

Day, 76, had told his husband, Ernie Caswell, who at the time was suffering from dementia and living in an assisted living facility, that he was going out to visit friends, but no one ever heard from him or saw him alive again.

The car was discovered on July 26 near the Oregon coast, about 200 miles away from his home, but so far there is no evidence that there was a crime – besides the use of the station wagon, of course. Garcia is also facing one charge of theft for stealing and selling a brooch that had belonged to Day just days after that fateful phone call.

See Vandana Rambaran, 2 Oregon Women Accused of Stealing from a Dead Mouseketeer, Fox News, June 30, 2019.