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While Kim Crespi was getting a haircut, her husband David murdered their five-year-old twin daughters during a game of hide and seek. In the aftermath, family, friends, and even David have more questions than answers.
In 2005, Kim Crespi had what she later described as "the perfect life." She and…

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This is a story worthy of a modern-day Sophocles, and author Jones is up to the task, never flinching from the horrifying details of what happened that January afternoon, while portraying, in elegant, poetic prose, the faith in God and the love that has sustained this family in the face of the seemingly unforgivable.

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