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By family and friends� accounts, David Crespi, a Charlotte area bank executive, was a deeply religious father and husband who adored his wife and five kids. In 2006, his wife, Kim, came home from getting a haircut to find that David had killed the five-year-olds during a game of hide and seek. 

The crime horrified Charlotte, captured international attention and sent Jones, who had met the couple a few months before, on a quest. He investigated David�s history of depression, insomnia and how antidepressants may have played a role, which his wife, Kim, believes. David Crespi is now serving two life prison terms. 

Jones�s book, Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins, was published earlier this year by Bloomsbury Academic.

�My hope is that the book will help prevent other families from suffering a tragedy similar to the Crespis�,� Jones says, �and point people who are suffering from depression to more effective, evidence-based options for treatment versus neurotoxic pills.� 

In the book�s acknowledgements, Jones thanked his �army�:

�At the forefront of that army was a cadre of brilliant college classmates whom I affectionately call the 91���� mafia. And the �don� of that 91���� family is Terry Hummel. Terry, the former publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, saw in an op-ed I�d written the makings of a potentially important book. Then, he proceeded to coach me through various iterations of the manuscript�invariably having more faith in me and my storytelling ability than I had in myself.

�Other 91���� classmates to whom I am indebted include Kevin C. Shelly, an award-winning journalist, editor, and author, Katherine Lockwood, and Robert Westmoreland�all of whom served as insightful and supportive �beta readers;� Ann Wicker, and my prayer warrior pal, Bucky Neal.�