Family of Missing Swiss Twins Fear the Worst

Investigators are hunting in Switzerland, France and Italy for the girls:

The family of two missing Swiss six-year-old twin girls say they fear the worst after receiving money posted by their father before he killed himself. An international police search is continuing for Alessia and Livia, who have not been seen since their father Matthias Schepp's body was found in Italy on Thursday.
There had been hopes Schepp might have used the money to pay for a caregiver. Evidence also emerged that the girls might never have left Switzerland.

The girls' uncle, Dr Valerio Lucidi, said that Schepp had sent 4,400 euros to his estranged wife before he died. According to police, the Canadian-born father withdrew 7,000 euros in the French port of Marseille last week. "It worries us because the theory that he might have paid someone to keep the children doesn't hold any more," Dr Lucidi said, speaking on behalf of the family. "The fact that he sent back the money is worrying."

The hunt in Switzerland has intensified to focus on a lake near St Sulpice, the family's home village outside Lausanne.  Boats in nearby towns, and gas stations between Lausanne and Geneva, that may have been used by the father, are also being searched.

Speaking to Swiss newspaper La Tribune de Geneve, Dr Lucidi added that the girls' passports were in the possession of their mother and they were not inscribed in their father's passport, begging the question, how could they have been taken out of Switzerland?
Missing twins timeline:
Friday 28 January: Schepp picks up his daughters to spend the weekend with them in their home village, St Sulpice, where both he and his estranged wife have homes

1300 PM (1200 GMT) Sunday 30 January: The girls are last seen with Schepp in St Sulpice

1804 PM (1704 GMT) Sunday 30 January: Schepp crosses the border into France

Monday 31 January: Schepp sends a despairing postcard to his wife from Marseille; on the same day he buys three ferry tickets for an evening sailing to Propriano, Corsica - the tickets are validated but there is no confirmation the girls boarded with Schepp

Tuesday 1 February: Schepp disembarks alone in Propriano; he later leaves Corsica for Naples in Italy.

Thursday 3 February: Schepp throws himself under a train at Cerignola, in the south Italian region of Puglia.

Note:   Schepp did not take the two girls' car seats with him.

Police also confirmed that when Schepp took a ferry from Marseille to Corsica, he arrived on the island alone.

But police stressed that the fate of the twins was still unclear. "Concerning Alessia and Livia, currently we have no certainty," said police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel. "We do not know today if they are alive or dead."
He sent his wife a note from Marseille saying he could not live without her, and a letter a day later from nearby Toulon.Police say the only confirmed sighting of Schepp with the twins was on 30 January in St Sulpice. Schepp took the twins from St Sulpice on 30 January, before travelling to France and then Italy, where he threw himself under a train. Schepp's body was found on train tracks in Cerignola Campagna, in Puglia. He was found with only about 100 euros on his person.

Guys, Guys, just look at the timeline. Three people got on the ferry to Propriano and only one got off. Why would he buy three tickets if he did not have the girls with him? I'll run that by again. Three got on, one got off.  Helloooo... Start looking for those little girls in the water.