Bodies of 2 dogs believed to have belonged to murdered Oregon hiker found

The bodies of two dogs believed to have belonged to an Oregon woman who was found murdered after being missing for a week were recovered by officials over the weekend.

Susan “Phoenix” Lane-Fournier, 61, and her two large Malinois-mix dogs were reported missing on Nov. 22. 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 in sight.

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

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

Lane-Fournier initially vanished while she was thought to be out hiking with her dogs at the Mount Hood National Forest. When she didn’t show up to work the following day, her friends reported her disappearance. A friend also spotted her truck near the forest on Nov. 23.

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

The couple was still legally married at the time of her death, but their neighbors weren’t surprised to hear about their marital troubles.

“They were expecting it; a lot of people talked about domestic violence,” neighbor Betty Swan-DeLong told KGW8.

Authorities originally called off the search for the dogs on Nov. 26.