International search is on for abducted Swiss twins 2/5/2011

[cookie]

this guy was a real evil idiot! I agree with another poster, why do they have to kill the children? kill themselves, who the hell would care??? just leave the children alone! 
this is horrible..
those little girls are darling..
what is wrong with our world???

[Northern Rose]

Father's letter claims he killed missing Swiss girls, police say

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/11/switzerland.missing.girls/

[Northern Rose]

Father's letter offers more evidence that Swiss twins are dead


LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- A letter sent to their mother brought out the worst fears in the search for 6-year-old Swiss twins missing for almost two weeks.

"They are resting in peace, they didn't suffer," their 43-year-old father wrote shortly before killing himself.

Swiss police say the search for Alessia and Livia will continue until their fate is known even as evidence mounts that they won't be found alive. Their father's letter did not say when or where he killed his children.

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http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/02/11/2842968/fathers-letter-offers-more-evidence.html

[cw618]

hopefully they are getting closer to finding the girls

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jW6v4gsC81Hwog1iSN_C6LkRlPNg?docId=CNG.34b0a7cfb441605b61894f84b5a9eda2.751

Police check 'mystery woman' in missing twins hunt
(AFP) – 3 hours ago

AJACCIO, France — French police were checking Saturday a report of a mystery woman who was seen with missing Swiss six-year-old twins and their father in Corsica before he committed suicide.
An investigator said they were "taking seriously" the account of Olga Orneck, a resident of the small ferry port of Propriano, who described to AFP how the four had attracted her attention on the morning of February 1 as she went to buy her newspaper.

"I noticed them because Propriano is a small village where strangers are spotted immediately, especially at this time of year," she said in a telephone interview.

[klaasend]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/13/missing-twins-mother-corsica-assist-search/?test=latestnews

Missing Twins' Mother in Corsica to Assist Search

Published February 13, 2011 | FoxNews.com

The mother of the twin Swiss 6-year-old girls who disappeared two weeks ago is in the French Mediterranean island of Corsica to assist with the search for her daughters.


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Hope of finding the girls alive is fading after a letter from their father turned up declaring he'd killed them. The father, Matthias Kaspar Schepp, killed himself in Italy after taking the twins to Corsica. He left the island alone.

"I can confirm that in his letter he also said that they did not suffer and were resting in peace," said Swiss police spokesman Jean-Christophe

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[SuzieQ]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world-europe/20110215/EU.Switzerland.Missing.Twins/

Investigation of missing Swiss twins upended
By JOHN HEILPRIN, AP
6 hours ago

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Swiss police now say the missing 6-year-old twins might never have left Switzerland at all — throwing the entire investigation into doubt — and French investigators say they could even be alive.

After spending weeks searching for the girls, Swiss police and the public prosecutor's office for the canton (state) of Vaud said Wednesday there is no way of telling whether any witnesses actually saw Matthias Kaspar Schepp whisk away his daughters from Lausanne to Marseille, France, and then to the French island of Corsica and possibly to Italy.

"Anything is possible now," Vaud police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel told The Associated Press on Wednesday night. "We can't rule anything out."

The surprise turn of events came as authorities held news conferences in Marseille and later in Lausanne. Investigators say they have been unable to confirm any of the alleged witness sightings of the girls since they were seen playing at 1 p.m. Jan. 30 with a neighbor's child in their hometown of Saint-Sulpice, part of Lausanne, along Lake Geneva.

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[SuzieQ]

http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/12/missing-twins-search-for-bodies-in-geneva-countryside-no-results-update/

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - SwissMissing, with help from Canton Vaud Police, carried out an 8km2 search in the Geneva countryside Saturday 9 April to Monday morning, looking for the bodies of the two missing six-year-olds, Alessia and Livia Schepp. Twelve people including a police officer and three dogs that are trained to look for bodies, teamed up and worked out of Confignon et à Chancy, Jean-Christophe Sauterel, head of press and communications for Vaud Police, told GenevaLunch.

He confirmed that the search turned up no results.

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[grace-land]

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/new-search-for-missing-swiss-twin-girls-20110414-1dfuj.html

New search for missing Swiss twin girls
April 14, 2011

AFP

Swiss police announced a major search for the bodies of missing twin girls who were kidnapped by their father in January, after a new witness came forward.

"We have begun a large-scale search between Morges and St Prex", close to the western city of Lausanne, local police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said on Thursday.

More than 140 police were taking part in the search, he added.

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Sauterel said the new search was triggered by new eyewitness testimony that emerged last week.

"We have a statement from someone who came to the local police headquarters on April 6 and who told us about a man who was seen carrying a suitcase in the Boiron region (near Morges) on Sunday, January 30, around 4pm," said Sauterel.

"That is all we have from this witness, but by linking the new information to other elements of the investigation, we have deemed it relevant and decided to conduct this search with dogs who are trained to find bodies," he added.

Eleven sniffer dogs are taking part in the search.

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[Nut44x4]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anonymous-letter-links-missing-schepp-twins-to-ottawa-1.2542216


Anonymous letter links missing Schepp twins to Ottawa
 
Twin girls Alessia and Livia were believed to have been killed by their father in 2011

CBC NewsPosted: Feb 18, 2014 3:21 PM ET|Last Updated: Feb 18, 2014 3:24 PM ET

An Italian television crew is investigating a claim that Swiss girls believed to have been killed by their Canadian-born father are in fact alive and living in Ottawa and Lachute, Quebec. 

Letter claims girls sent to Canada


Italian journalist Ercole Rocchetti, a reporter with a television program focused on missing persons — Chi L'Ha Visto — said they received a letter last week from someone claiming to have worked for someone who printed the false documents that allowed the girls to be transported to Canada.


The author of the letter claimed one of the girls was living in Ottawa and the other was living in Lachute, Que., a town near the Ontario-Quebec border.

Rocchetti was in Lachute over the weekend before arriving in Ottawa on Monday, making appeals for help from the public. He's hoping his program's investigation into the tip might help locate the children, if they are in fact alive and in Canada.

Rocchetti said before Schepp killed himself, he had sent his wife a series of letters with money totalling 5,900 euros, but Rocchetti said Schepp had just days earlier taken out 8,000 euros.
Rocchetti said the remaining money was never recovered, but might have been used to pay for document forgeries. The mother of the twins, who remains in Europe, is not granting interviews on this latest development.

Ottawa police say Italian police have not asked for aid


The investigation, however, was news to Ottawa police.


Ottawa police spokesman Cst. Marc Soucy said Italian police have had no contact with his police force.


"If we get asked to assist, we will assist, but for now we have not been asked," said Soucy.


"We need a complaint, need someone to come forward and say this is happening," he said.