Dad says in letter he killed twins

Paris (CNN) — The ascendant of absent land twins dispatched a honor to his spouse locution he had killed them before committing suicide, personnel said Friday.

Matthias Schepp, 43, also unnatural slayer techniques, poisons and transport schedules before allegedly attractive 6 year-old Alessia and Livia Schepp from their bag St. Sulpice, nearby metropolis in Hesperian Switzerland, on Jan 30, according to personnel in the land canton of Vaud.

The girls were patterned on a transport to the island of Corsica the incoming day, but there hit been no addicted sightings since, according to investigators.

A forbid someone in Cerignola in south Italia reportable sight a Negro with a Federal European pronounce attractive his girl to the restroom, according to Rai Uno TV, which additional that a personnel analyse of the bar’s recording doesn’t hold claims the Negro was Schepp.

Schepp killed himself by stepping in face of a condition in Cerignola on Feb 3, a spokesman for the land personnel said this week.

Authorities did not promulgation the table of the letters, but the European production Corriere della Sera publicised a declare it said was from Schepp’s terminal letter, dated the aforementioned period he sworn slayer and armoured from Bari, which is also in gray Italia most 60 miles (100 kilometers) easterly of where his embody was found.

“The children rest in peace, they hit not suffered,” the production quoted the honor as saying.

It is doable that Schepp killed the girls on the transport to Corsica and threw their bodies overboard, Jacques Dallest, a land prosecutor, said early this week.

In constituent to the questionable confession, the letters — octad in every — contained most 4,500 euros, personnel said. Two more letters, containing 1,500 euros, were institute in a postal incase that was no individual in service.

Police scholarly of the letters on Feb 8, but did not verify the open to refrain complicating the see for the girls, according to a personnel statement.

In constituent to the letters, personnel said searches of Schepp’s machine revealed that he looked up aggregation most firearms digit chronicle before allegedly attractive the girls. The incoming day, he searched for aggregation most intoxication techniques and transport timetables, according to a grounds on the website of the Vaud Cantonal Police.

“The aggregation shows that the ascendant had designed the activate in detail,” according to the personnel statement.

Valerio Lucidi, the twins’ uncle, said in an discourse with Rai Uno TV that “the fact that everything has been designed for chronicle is rattling worrying.”

Swiss personnel searched the St. Sulpice bag threesome nowadays and investigated 60 another homes in the neighborhood, Vaud personnel said.

They also searched the father’s quaternary boats at the ports of Morges and Vidy as substantially as another ports in the region. Police hit contacted every assist stations between St. Sulpice and the land municipality of Geneva, monitored every tariff posts in the Genf region, and hired a eggbeater to see the lake nearby St. Sulpice.

Police are today intelligent for the girls in Corsica, patch the enquiry in Schweiz is examining the kinsfolk status and the father’s clannish and professed life.

Police hit said Schepp took the girls mass kinsfolk problems, but personnel said they aren’t alive of some grounds suggesting Schepp was having an affair.

CNN’s Saskya Vandoorne in town contributed to this report.