Husband of a woman who disappeared for murder with dogs

Insets: Michel Fournier, Susan Lane-Fournier and their two dogs (Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Susan Lane-Fournier’s abandoned truck in Mount Hood National Forest (KOIN/YouTube).

An Oregon woman who disappeared with her two dogs last month was found dead Friday. According to court documents, police officers accused her estranged husband of murdering her just weeks after she filed for divorce.

Michel Fournier, 71, is being held without bail on a second-degree murder charge in the death of 61-year-old Susan Lane-Fournier, who was reported missing Nov. 22 after her truck was found abandoned in the Mount Hood National Forest. Deputies with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office discovered Lane-Fournier’s body Friday in the area of Werden near East Highway 26 and East Miller Road. According to law enforcement officials, Fournier was arrested “shortly after the discovery.” Lane-Fournier’s death was ruled a homicide Saturday by the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office.

According to Clackamas officials, the woman was initially believed to be a “missing hiker” after her truck was discovered on Nov. 23 with her two Malinois mix dogs – both of which are still missing – got lost. Authorities called off their search for Lane-Fournier last Tuesday after a four-day search.

“From Saturday through Tuesday, dozens of search volunteers, drone teams, and aerial tracking and towing K9s spent more than 800 search hours searching for Ms. Lane-Fournier,” the sheriff’s office said. “Due to weather conditions and the likelihood of survival, the decision was made to cease operations after all four volunteer search teams returned from the field.”

However, Lane-Fournier’s friends and family suspected something more sinister.

“She’s a former search and rescue worker in California, so she knows the safety measures when she’s in the woods,” Lane-Fournier’s son Dakota Lane told Portland CBS affiliate KOIN last week as authorities searched for his mother. He added, “Other than a large pack of coyotes or a very large, angry bear, there is nothing that can stand between her and these dogs.”

“I don’t think she’s a missing hiker at all,” said James Evans, a friend of Lane-Fournier’s who spoke to KOIN during the search. According to the station, he was the one who found Lane-Fournier’s body on Friday, hidden under a tarp.

“As I reached down to pick up the tarp, I looked up and saw a pair of boots,” he told KOIN on Saturday.

It’s unclear what led Evans and other searchers he was with on Friday to the area where Lane-Fournier – Fournier’s wife of 12 years – was discovered. Court records show she filed for divorce from Fournier on Oct. 31, citing “irreconcilable differences” that would have led to the “irremediable breakdown of their marriage,” according to local NBC affiliate KGW.

Online filings viewed by Law&Crime show there was an unsuccessful attempt to serve Fournier on Nov. 8. The couple had been married since May 2012.

Lane-Fournier’s friends and family started Facebook groups in the initial search for her last week, which now say things like “The Mission for Justice has Begun” and “Always Our Phoenix” following Fournier’s arrest. “Always Our Phoenix” is a nod to Lane-Fournier’s nickname – “Phoenix”.

“We were all quiet, we were all processing our grief,” said a post on the “Team Phoenix” page. “This is not the outcome we were hoping for, but we were under no illusions that this might not be the outcome.”

Lane-Fournier’s brother, Steven Lane, wrote that her family had early suspicions about what had actually happened to her, as did her friends – and countless people posted about Fournier online – but they didn’t want to talk about it and did so anyway not Not because of the possibility of distorting the police investigation and the murder case.

“Let us all not go crazy with speculation,” he said on Sunday. “I know you all are anxious to get things done. The wheels of justice grind slowly. We don’t want the bad guys to fall through the cracks.”

A post on the page “Always Our Phoenix” describes Lane-Fournier as “an artist, a creator, a healer and a connector” who lived in a “small, sunlit house on the edge of the forest, whose walls bore the symbol.” Shades of her soul.” A candlelight vigil is planned for her on Monday evening.

Husband of a woman who disappeared for murder with dogs

ByAmelia Journalton

By Amelia Journalton

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