It wasn’t until friends and relatives launched the “Help Us Find Dennis Day” Facebook page that the case gained wider attention.
The search for Dennis Day took a haunting turn when his car was discovered on the Oregon coast on July 26, 2018.
Despite multiple visits by Phoenix Police to the home where Day’s decomposed body lay hidden beneath a pile of clothes, it took nine agonizing months for authorities to locate his remains.
The body was finally identified in April 2019 by the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s office, although the advanced decomposition rendered dental records and DNA testing unusable.
Identification
The delay in finding Day’s body and the subsequent handling of the investigation have sparked outrage and legal action from his family. They have filed a lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Department, claiming emotional distress caused by the department’s prolonged failure to locate Day’s remains.
The lawsuit also alleges that during an earlier search in 2018, officers stepped on Day’s body, causing fractures to the corpse, yet still failed to discover it. The discovery was only made when Oregon State Police brought in a cadaver-sniffing dog in April 2019.
