Casey Kasem is found in Washington hours after daughter files missing person's report

 

                                                                         




Victor Spinelli/WireImageFOUND! Police have told the Daily News that Casey Kasem has been found in the Pacific Northwest.
Radio icon Casey Kasem has been found.
Hours after Kasem's desperate daughter, Kerri, filed a missing person's report with Santa Monica, Calif., cops, he was located in Washington State, police said Wednesday.
"He's already been found," Sgt. Mario Toti exclusively told the Daily News. The revelation was a relief to Kerri Kasem Wednesday night.
"If they found him, I want to know if he's all right," she said when The News told her her dad had been located.
"I am praying," she later texted a News reporter.
When Kerri Kasem and her siblings received confirmation that Kasem was found, their thoughts turned to the ailing man's health.
"We have received confirmation that Casey Kasem has been found," they said in a statement issued by their spokesman. "The family has grave concerns about his health and will do everything in their power to bring him back home."

Splash NewsKerri Kasem said the shock of her father's disappearance hit hard because she and her sister Julie were allowed to visit him last Tuesday for the first time in months.
Kerri Kasem also said, "We are grateful to the local authorities for finding my Dad."
The surprise development came shortly after Kerri Kasem's spokesman said the daughter who recently won a medical conservatorship over her 82-year-old dad was working with law enforcement.
"Kerri Kasem and family have officially filed a missing persons report," spokesman Danny Deraney said in a statement early Wednesday evening.
"Now that it's official, they can move forward with their plan. Today is a week since he was last in his nursing home, and they don't know if he's been taking his medication. The fact that he's been away from his medical care is a big deal and they're scared something serious could happen with his health."
The daughter previously told The News she believed her estranged stepmom, Jean Kasem, was in "hiding" with the "American Top 40" radio legend.
"My dad has been kidnapped," she said Wednesday, adding she suspected her stepmother removed Kasem from his Santa Monica nursing home last week and likely took him up to an Indian reservation in Washington.



Toby Canham/Getty ImagesKerri Kasem filed a missing person's report with the Santa Monica Police Department. Hours later, her dad was found in Washington.
A Los Angeles County judge granted Kerri Kasem her temporary conservatorship after a lawyer for Jean Kasem told the court he didn't know where Kasem was but believed he was out of the country.
The judge ordered an immediate probe into Kasem's location and medical well-being, saying the lawyer's comments caused him great "concern."
Kerri Kasem and her siblings from a previous marriage said the silver-tongued titan is in a delicate medical state due to Lewy body dementia, a progressive disease that has left him barely able to speak and eating with a feeding tube.
"I worry immensely that he's not getting the right medical attention. He has to be in a facility with 24-hour care. Traveling causes great stress, fear and confusion for someone in my dad's state. It might be taking a tremendous toll," she previously said.
Kerri Kasem said the shock of her father's disappearance hit hard because she and her sister Julie were allowed to visit him last Tuesday for the first time in months.
"It was amazing. He was alert, awake, happy and totally knew who were were. There were a few words here and there. We told him we'd try to visit him again soon, and he asked us, 'When?'" she told The News. "I think they were giving him really great nutrition at the nursing home, and his brain was working better than before."


Giulio Marcocchi/Getty ImagesCasey Kasem is seen with wife Jean Kasem in 2004. Kasem's daughter, Kerri, accused Jean of kidnapping her dad.
"In my opinion, Jean is worried about us meeting again. She's worried about the money. She thinks we're going to get him to change the will. She's out of her mind. As I've said all along, we're not going to contest the will. We're all successful enough on our own. She can take the house. We just want our dad back," Kerri Kasem said.
Now 59, Jean Kasem had a small role in the 1984 hit movie "Ghostbusters" but is best known for playing the ditzy wife of Nick Tortelli on the hit '80s sitcom "Cheers."
Jean Kasem married the voice of Shaggy from "Scooby Doo" in 1980 and later banished his adult kids from the house where the couple raised their daughter Liberty, now 23.
Jean Kasem's lawyer, Craig Marcus, had "no comment" when reached by The News on Monday.
Marcus claimed in court that his client had the right to move her husband as she saw fit, but Kerri Kasem argued the move violated the siblings' legal agreement regarding visitation.
Kerri Kasem said Monday she hoped the judge's new conservatorship order would eventually become permanent.
"One part of me is really happy (about the conservatorship), but the other part of me is still really worried," she said.