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Summary The father of two missing twins being sought in three countries has admitted killing them in a letter to his estranged wife, Swiss police said on Friday.
They said that Canadian-born Matthias Schepp sent the letter to the girls mother, Irina Lucidi, shortly before killing himself on February 3. He said the letter had been posted from the southern Italian city of Bari on the day Schepp killed himself and was received on Tuesday 8. But he said the search for the twins continued and that police were searching for any hard evidence of their whereabouts. Sauterel said police had decided not to reveal the existence of the letter out of respect for the familys privacy, but news of its existence leaked out and was front-page news in several Italian and Swiss newspapers on Friday. Schepp had snatched his children from their mothers house on January 29, took them to the southern port city of Marseille, where he boarded a car ferry for Propriano in Corsica two days later. Witnesses identified the children on the ferry bound for the French Mediterranean island, but the trail went cold after their arrival there.
