Bodies of two dogs believed to belong to missing Oregon hiker Susan Lane-Fournier found

The bodies of two dogs believed to belong to an Oregon woman found murdered after a week-long missing person case were recovered by officials over the weekend.

Susan “Phoenix” Lane-Fournier, 61, and her two large Malinois mix dogs were reported missing on November 22nd. Authorities charged her husband, Michel Fournier, 71, with second-degree murder after her body was found on the side of a highway last Friday.

The pups Elrond and Elros were nowhere to be seen.

But on Saturday, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office recovered two dead dogs in Mount Hood National Forest, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said.

The bodies have since been turned over to the CCSO and investigators are working to determine the exact identities of the dogs.

Lane-Fournier initially disappeared while it was believed she was hiking with her dogs in the Mount Hood National Forest. When she didn’t show up for work the next day, her friends reported her disappearance. On November 23rd, a friend also spotted her truck near the forest.

Her death has since been ruled a homicide. Lane-Fournier filed for divorce on October 31, citing that “irreconcilable differences between the parties have resulted in the irremediable breakdown of their marriage.”

The couple was still legally married at the time of their deaths, but their neighbors were not surprised to hear of their marital problems.

“You expected it; “A lot of people were talking about domestic violence,” neighbor Betty Swan-DeLong told KGW8.

Authorities originally called off the search for the dogs on November 26th.