As the year 2006 dawns, Kim Crespi has what she later describes as "the perfect life"-until January 20, 2006, when Kim's husband David, a star in the world of finance and a loving father who had never so much as lightly spanked any of his five children, does the unthinkable. Dave murders their five-year-old twin daughters, Tess and Samantha. Murder by Medication? is a true story about a terrible family tragedy made more terrible by how preventable it was. Meticulously researched, and including excerpts from Kim Crespi's journal, Edward L. Jones III takes readers into the heart of psychosis related to SSRI antidepressants, of North Carolina's penal and mental health systems, and Big Pharma. While Ed shares expert medical research regarding the treatment of depression without SSRIs, at the core of this story is a heroic woman who, despite unimaginable trauma and suffering, has found a way to forgive the seemingly unforgivable.
Edward L. Jones III has been an award-winning writer in two different fields: the Mad Men world of advertising and the (slightly) saner world of higher education.During his ad career, Ed won over 350 awards for creativity. His copywriting work has been featured in several college textbooks. In his spare time away from advertising, Ed served as a Community Columnist for the Charlotte Observer. One of Ed's most well-received columns was about the David Crespi case. Between 2007 and 2018, Ed was the editor-in-chief and lead feature writer for three different college alumni magazines: Crossroads (Belmont Abbey College), Averett Magazine (Averett University), and Salem College Magazine. Murder by Medication? is Ed's first book.
Disclaimer Prologue Part I: Inferno: 2006 Chapter One: "I Had the Perfect Life." Chapter Two: "I Just Killed My Two Daughters." Chapter Three: "We Will Stand as Advocates for Light." Chapter Four: "God, Where Is My Husband?" Chapter Five: Home Alone Chapter Six: The Death Sentence for David? Chapter Seven: Who Was the Real David Crespi? Chapter Eight: The Road to Damascus Chapter Nine: The Oprah Winfrey Show Devotes an Hour to the Crespi Case Part II: Purgatorio: 2007 to 2013 Chapter Ten: The Ties That Bind Chapter Eleven: Big Pharma's Big Lies: Part One Chapter Twelve: Withdrawal Chapter Thirteen: A History of Antidepressants Chapter Fourteen: A Tale of Two Countries, Part One Chapter Fifteen: Pills, Lies, and Videotape Part III: Hoping Against Hope: 2014 to Present Chapter Sixteen: A Devastating Diagnosis Chapter Seventeen: Big Pharma's Big Lies, Part Two Chapter Eighteen: SSRIs, R.I.P.? Chapter Nineteen: A Tale of Two Countries, Part Two Chapter Twenty: Still, She Persists: In Holding on to Hope Afterword: Should SSRIs Be Banned? Bibliography Index About the Author
