{"id":108035,"date":"2024-12-02T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/husband-charged-with-murder-of-wife-found-dead-in-oregon-wilderness\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:03:37","slug":"husband-charged-with-murder-of-wife-found-dead-in-oregon-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/husband-charged-with-murder-of-wife-found-dead-in-oregon-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband charged with murder of wife found dead in Oregon wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-02\/News_hiker_112624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Clackamas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WELCHES, Ore.) &#8212; A man has been arrested and charged with murder after his estranged wife was found dead in the Oregon wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Fournier, 71, was taken into custody Friday on second-degree murder charges. He is now being held without bail, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Friday, Susan Lane-Fournier was found deceased in Welches, a remote part of Clackamas County, after a multi-day search. An autopsy ruled her manner of death as homicide, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Lane-Fournier, 61, had been reported missing one week earlier, on Nov. 22, after failing to show up at work, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>She was also known as &#8220;Phoenix,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials previously said she was believed to have been in the wooded area hiking with her two dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The two dogs, which had also been considered missing, were also found dead on Saturday, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks before she disappeared, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/crime\/2024\/11\/husband-of-missing-woman-from-brightwood-arrested-on-murder-allegation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oregonian<\/a>, Lane-Fournier filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. The two had been married for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clackamas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (WELCHES, Ore.) &#8212; A man has been arrested and charged with murder after his estranged wife was found dead in the Oregon wilderness. Michel Fournier, 71, was taken into custody Friday on second-degree murder charges. He is now being held without bail, according to the Clackamas<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/husband-charged-with-murder-of-wife-found-dead-in-oregon-wilderness\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}