Police seek information on father Matthias Schepp's whereabouts from 1-3 February
Lausanne / Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Matthias Schepp, the dead father of Alessia and Livia Schepp, twins who have been missing since Sunday 30 January from their hometown of St Sulpice, near Lausanne, was seen in Corsica Tuesday morning 31 January, Vaud police have confirmed. New elements turned up by police in Marseille, France confirm that the father, who committed suicide near Bari, Italy late last Thursday, took the late Monday overnight ferry to the island.
There is no evidence yet whether or not he had the six-year-old twins with him.
Police have been able to pin down his movements in Switzerland more clearly: he was seen with the girls in Saint Sulpice at 13:30 Sunday 30 January, and he was in Morges at 15:50, cell phone records show. He then drove to Geneva and on to Annecy, crossing the border into France at 18:15 Sunday.
The police also confirmed that the girls’ mother has received several packets of money, in €50 bills, mailed by her estranged husband, but the total received to date is €4,400, slightly less than the amount mentioned earlier today by the girls’ uncle.
The postal stamps show they were mailed from Bari, Italy.
Vaud police say they are not yet in a position to discuss other information or details in their possession, in order not to prejudice the investigation.
Alessia and Livia continue to be the focus of a large, three-country manhunt. Police are particularly anxious to have information on the father’s whereabouts between Tuesday morning 1 February, when he was seen in Corsica, and noon Thursday 3 February, when he was near Naples.
Police in canton Vaud, who have been leading an intensive three-country search for the girls, held a press conference Tuesday evening 8 February.
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Mother and baby, Lake Geneva
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