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Day's husband, Ernie Caswell, was hospitalized at the time and reported Day missing when he stopped visiting. Day's family said in a statement Thursday that the body had been identified as Day's.

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State police said Thursday night that the state medical examiner's office had confirmed the identification. No cause of death was reported. The family said it would have no further comment. Day, who had already appeared in a movie, "A Lion Is in the Streets," was 12 years old in when he was signed to appear as a Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club TV," one of the most popular shows of the early days of American television.

As a member of the first class of Mouseketeers, Day modeled prospective costumes for Walt Disney and appeared in publicity photos for the show. Day remained on the show through and continued to work in theater in New York and as a drama teacher in California. In the early s, Day was among the first wave of performers to come out publicly as gay, revealing his relationship with Caswell, with whom he ran a home for gay actors in San Francisco.

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