At the Help Us Find Dennis Day page, if you scroll down and look for a posting by an admin whose initials are R.R., posted on Nov 9, 2018, she gave quite a detailed account of events she learned of up until then. Very interesting.
https://facebook.com/groups/FindDennisDay/
Oops, sorry, date wrong in my prior post.
Should be R.R.’s Nov. 10 post.
Hhhmmm, I keep clicking Show More Posts but didn't find Nov. 10.
(Not on FaceBook otherwise, maybe those with pages see more? Nov. 9 is a photograph of someone, possibly with tools?)
I think this is what you are talking about, slowpoke
, and since it was posted by an admin., I believe it’s OK to link:
Rosanne Reynolds
ETA: I just reviewed the social media rules and realized that “posts by an owner or admin may be copied or quoted. This refers primarly to posts or tweets by MSM reporters, and announcements by law enforcement, the immediate family, or the admin of a group support page.”
Rules - Social Media - Facebook, Twitter, etc.
RR’s post is rather lengthy, but it is very informative, IMO, so here you go
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November 9, 2018
“Okay, so I spent an hour on Wed talking to the officer in charge of Dennis' case, Lt Price of the Phoenix OR Missing Persons Dept. Then, I spent an hour on Thurs talking to a close friend of D & E in Oregon, [KP], who has assumed Power of Attorney (so they won't lose the house) & is regularly visiting Ernie. (I hope he will add to or correct me if I am wrong about anything here.)This is a composite of information received, (liberally mixed with my judgement, I'm sure):
Dennis seems to have disappeared 2 weeks before the Lt. was contacted & opened the case. The backstory is that Ernie had had colon cancer at an earlier date, & had a colostomy bag; otherwise he was physically in reasonable shape, but had fallen a few times; he had also been slowly succumbing to increasing dementia. Dennis was taking care of him, & was getting very depressed doing so. To complicate matters, they had a friend ([“RM”] as in roommate) living with them who had been homeless for awhile & who has some mental problems- Ernie was adamant that he stay, Dennis wanted him to go. Now, Dennis has been incredibly reclusive for some years, so that was to be expected. Ernie wanted [RM] there to do work on the house, which by all accounts he was doing. Given their circumstances, the house had evidently become quite a pit, the way that many older, reclusive, failing peoples' sometimes do - garbage, dog feces, dirt, rotting food. How long it had been that way I don't know; hopefully not too long. They were no longer cooking, Meals on Wheels delivered to them. Shortly before Ernie's fall, Dennis started to claim that [RM] was abusing him; even signed a letter claiming that [RM] had hit him. It is very hard to say if that actually occurred. The Lt. doesn't feel that [RM] would be capable of that. [KP] says that in general, [RM] couldn't hurt a fly, but that at that time he was beginning to use meth (which could mean all bets were off).
Then Ernie fell, & was taken by ambulance to a care facility. The Lt. says that both [RM] & Ernie told him separately that Dennis said he was going to go & visit friends, then [RM] said he left. Two things concern me here: one is that he left his dog & the car at the house in [RM’s] care - I can't imagine Dennis doing that if he were just visiting friends. The second is that [RM] told the Lt. that Ernie had died - that he had been taken away in an ambulance, & so of course he must have died. He really seems to have thought so; the Lt. shocked him when he told him that Ernie was quite alive. If [RM] told Dennis that, who knows what Dennis would do? He was terribly afraid that Ernie would go first. I will jump ahead here & say that the Lt. has searched the vicinity for bodies in case Dennis were a suicide; he has found nothing (& of course he is in touch w/ neighboring communities.
So, 2 weeks after Ernie's move to Care, Meals on Wheels reported to Missing Persons that they were concerned that Dennis had disappeared. Then their car disappeared. (This is all still in very late July.) The very next day, their car was found on the Oregon coast with a man & woman inside; they told the police that Dennis Day had lent it to them. [RM] said the same thing. There was nothing to hold them on, & the car was impounded. Lt. Price called in favors & had the car checked out forensically; there was no trace of a struggle or injurious DNA. So still, nothing to hold anyone on. When Lt. Price questioned [RM] again, he found 2 women doing their laundry in the washer & dryer that lived on D & E's porch - again, they said that Dennis had said it was okay; again, there was nothing to hold them on, though they were sent packing. At that point, the Lt. also told [RM] that he had to leave, and he did. (And with [KP] now taking care of the house, [RM] has not been back. The dog, by the way, was taken by & is being spoiled by the Meals on Wheels lady.)
And since then, crickets. [KP] says that Ernie's short-term memory is terrible, but that he can still speak his languages & that he asks about Dennis. The facility wanted to send him home a long time ago because he was costing money, but initially the Lt. told them that Ernie couldn't return home, because the place was a bio-hazard, & they kept him. Now Ernie's safe on Medicaid, & though he wants to go home, he's otherwise comfortable. He is at [a residential care facility].
[SBM]
So now the plan: I will be writing a media piece about the Missing Mouseketeer to hopefully give to the Oregon & No. California media for I hope a human interest story that goes viral. (I will have better PR people than I vet it, edit it, & I will run it by the Lt. first, of course). I hope to have the piece done by the end of the weekend. Any of you who are in the biz are welcome to help, or vet it. I feel that getting the word out in a big way, however belated, is our best chance.
[SBM]” (BBM)
