Police in the tiny southern Oregon town of Phoenix so botched an investigation into the death of former “Mickey Mouse Club” TV star Dennis Day that they didn’t realize that one of their officers had stepped on his body under a pile of clothes, cracking his skull, in the early days after Day went missing in July 2018. And Day’s body remained there in his home for nearly nine months before the local police called in the help of a much bigger agency — the Oregon State Police — who immediately searched the home with a cadaver dog and found the former child star’s body in April 2019. But the body was so decomposed by then that the prosecution couldn’t pinpoint the cause of the 76-year-old’s death and later accepted a plea deal that would send Day’s killer to prison for about four years for criminally negligent homicide. That’s all according to the family of Day, who this week are airing these allegations before a Jackson County jury in a lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Department and L...