Father wrote about killing Swiss twins in letter to mother

THE father of missing Swiss six-year-old twins wrote to their mother to say he had “killed” the girls, shortly before he committed suicide in southeastern Italy, Swiss police revealed yesterday.

Police, who have described Matthias Schepp, 43, as a “desperate person” during his three-country dash, said that the letter was post-marked February 3, the day he died.

“The last envelope dated February 3 contained a letter in which the father said he killed the two girls, saying he was in Cerignola (southern Italy) where he was about to kill himself,” said a police spokesman.