CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Authorities will hold a news conference Thursday to announce a $5,000 reward for the woman who discovered the gravesite of two New Hampshire children murdered by their father in 2003.

The reward is going to Stephanie Dietrich of Akron, Ohio, a mother who took it upon herself to search for the bodies of Sarah and Philip Gehring after their mother made a pilgrimage to the Midwest to ask for the public’s help. It wasn’t clear Tuesday whether Dietrich will travel to Concord to receive the reward from Concord Regional Crimeline.

Dietrich and her dog, Ricco, searched more than 40 times near her home because of clues suggesting the gravesite could be in the region. They found the bodies of Sarah, 14, and Philip, 11, on Dec. 1 in a remote wooded location in Hudson, about 25 miles southeast of Cleveland.

Teri Knight of Hillsboro, Sarah and Philip’s mother, visited Dietrich last week and retrieved her children’s remains. A funeral service was held in Hillsboro on Sunday.

The children were killed by Manuel Gehring, who fled cross-country along Interstate 80 and was arrested in California. He gave some details about where he buried the bodies and went out with authorities to look for them, but did not pinpoint the spot. Gehring killed himself in jail in February 2004.

Both mothers were reunited again Tuesday, on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“I don’t think I could’ve figured out how to do another winter, another year, so I’m just so grateful for what Stephanie did,” Knight said. She said Ricco was “phenomenal.”

Dietrich said her family “thought I was crazy,” but they helped, from printing out information to fielding phone calls.

When asked if she’d take part in other searches, Dietrich said she planned to look in Ohio for the body of an elderly woman who disappeared 11 years ago.