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Related: About this forumMan sentenced to 4-plus years in death of original 'Mickey Mouse Club' cast member
Man sentenced to 4-plus years in death of original 'Mickey Mouse Club' cast member
Associated Press
Updated Thu, July 11, 2024 at 5:58 PM EDT
2 min read
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) A man charged in the death of Dennis Day, an original cast member on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club television program in the 1950s, has been sentenced to just over four years in prison after entering a modified guilty plea this week.
Daniel Burda, 41, pleaded no contest Monday to charges of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of a corpse. Burda was a live-in handyman at Day's home in Phoenix, Oregon, but Day, 76, had been trying to evict him around the time he disappeared in mid-2018. A no-contest plea is a concession that the state can prove criminal charges at trial and carries the same legal effect as a guilty plea. Prosecutors said Burda caused Days death and then used Days identity to spend money.
Day's badly decomposed body wasn't discovered for nine months, beneath a pile of clothes at the home. His family has sued the Phoenix Police Department, saying its failure to discover his remains in his own home for so long despite having been to the home multiple times caused emotional distress.
During one search, police stepped on Day's body, causing fractures to the corpse, but they still didn't find it until April 2019, when Oregon State Police came with a cadaver-sniffing dog, the lawsuit said. The delay prevented the medical examiner from being able to determine a cause of death, it said. The police department has denied the allegations. A trial is set for October in Jackson County Circuit Court.
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Associated Press
Updated Thu, July 11, 2024 at 5:58 PM EDT
2 min read
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) A man charged in the death of Dennis Day, an original cast member on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club television program in the 1950s, has been sentenced to just over four years in prison after entering a modified guilty plea this week.
Daniel Burda, 41, pleaded no contest Monday to charges of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of a corpse. Burda was a live-in handyman at Day's home in Phoenix, Oregon, but Day, 76, had been trying to evict him around the time he disappeared in mid-2018. A no-contest plea is a concession that the state can prove criminal charges at trial and carries the same legal effect as a guilty plea. Prosecutors said Burda caused Days death and then used Days identity to spend money.
Day's badly decomposed body wasn't discovered for nine months, beneath a pile of clothes at the home. His family has sued the Phoenix Police Department, saying its failure to discover his remains in his own home for so long despite having been to the home multiple times caused emotional distress.
During one search, police stepped on Day's body, causing fractures to the corpse, but they still didn't find it until April 2019, when Oregon State Police came with a cadaver-sniffing dog, the lawsuit said. The delay prevented the medical examiner from being able to determine a cause of death, it said. The police department has denied the allegations. A trial is set for October in Jackson County Circuit Court.
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Mon Apr 8, 2024: On April 7, 2019, the body of Mouseketeer Dennis Day was discovered.
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Man sentenced to 4-plus years in death of original 'Mickey Mouse Club' cast member (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2024
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Demovictory9
(33,850 posts)1. 4 years for murder
Lucky Luciano
(11,454 posts)2. Garland was on the case.
Aristus
(68,482 posts)3. As long as they're bringing charges of criminal negligence, why not drop some on the police department?
Shit. One of their flatfoots couldn't find a dead body even when he was standing on it?
Fucking cops, man...