CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The morning after bodies found in Hudson, Ohio were confirmed as those of Philip and Sarah Gehring, their mother was making plans to travel to the grave site.

Teri Knight’s husband Jim Knight said Sunday morning that decisions will be made in the next few days about when they will travel to Ohio. He said the plan is to have the children’s bodies cremated in Ohio and to bring the ashes home to New Hampshire.

“At some point, we will have a funeral,” he said.

The Knights have been in the media spotlight since the bodies were discovered Thursday in an area that closely matched the description given by Manuel Gehring, the children’s father. Gehring shot them and told investigators he’d buried them somewhere off Interstate 80. He later killed himself in jail.

Knight said he hoped for greater privacy when it comes to visiting the grave site and bringing the children’s ashes home. “These last items, it’s just a series of things we need to do for ourselves,” he said.

Stephanie Dietrich, whose dog led her to the burial site, said she knew about the missing siblings because of publicity surrounding the case.

Dietrich, 44, of Akron, said she had been on several previous searches with her dog. She said she was motivated to find the children because of Teri Knight’s numerous pleas.

Dietrich’s dog, a 101-pound Boxer-Rottweiler mix, led her to a wooded area Thursday. Dietrich dug where her dog had stopped and quickly discovered what appeared to be body parts.

“I was shocked,” Dietrich said. “But I was looking for this and I fully expected to somehow to find this. I still don’t know how I feel yet.”

The children last were seen in 2003 with their father at a July Fourth fireworks show in Concord, N.H. Gehring told authorities he pulled off the highway later that night and shot the children, then drove for hours with their bodies in his van before he buried them.

He was arrested in California a week later and committed suicide before being tried.

Gehring told police he couldn’t remember where he dumped the bodies. He did, however, give them tantalizing but vague clues that led to appeals for help and repeated searches along a 700-mile stretch of Interstate 80 from Pennsylvania to Nebraska.

Authorities say the autopsy revealed that Sarah Gehring, 14, had been shot in the head three times. Philip Gehring, 11, had four gunshot wounds – one to each arm, one to the head and one to the neck.

In 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey did a pollen analysis on soil found under Gehring’s minivan and near the shovel used to bury the children. It concluded that the soil most likely came from northeastern Ohio, where Interstate 80 is the Ohio Turnpike.

Knight said she searched within five miles of Hudson last summer.