Police have found a corpse in the southern Oregon home of missing Mouseketeer Dennis Day.

On Thursday, Phoenix, Oregon, police asked Medford death investigators to examine a body found at 510 Pine St., a home belonging to Dennis Day, one of the original members of TV’s “The Mickey Mouse Club.” Day was first reported missing last summer.

Authorities have yet to publicly identify the remains or release more details about the circumstances under which they were found.

Day, 76, appeared on “The Mickey Mouse Club” during the show’s original 1950s run. He was first reported missing July 15 by his husband, who suffers from memory loss and was in the hospital at the time. According to missing persons reports, Day “uncharacteristically” left his dog with a friend on the day he disappeared. His car was found at the Oregon coast July 26.

But the investigation didn’t pick up steam until December, when Day’s family was told of a local news report about the missing persons case.

In February, “Dateline” spoke with Day’s family members -- including his sister and original performing partner Nelda Adkins -- who voiced their displeasure with what they called a “poorly handled” investigation.

“We are devastated," Day’s niece Denise told the NBC news program. “We had no idea anything was happening, and six months into it, we figured it out. We should have been notified.”

Friends and relatives helped set up the Help Us Find Dennis Day Facebook page.

On Friday, reporters from the Medford Mail Tribune spotted an Oregon State Police Forensics truck outside Day’s home. According to a post from niece Denise Norris, the activity around the home followed a police search Thursday.

Born in 1942, Day began his performing career at age 6, after moving to California. By 10, he was among the first group of children hired for the Disney show. Day and his longtime partner, Ernie Caswell, moved to Oregon in the 1980s. They were married in Ashland in 2009.

-- Michael Russell