09:17 AM EST on Saturday, January 21, 2006

By GLENN COUNTS / 6NEWS

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David Crespi is being charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of his 5-year-old twins.

David Crespi has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his 5-year-old twin daughters.

Crespi, 45, was booked into Charlotte Mecklenburg County Jail Friday night.

The twins were stabbed to death at the Crespi home on Creek Point Drive in south Mecklenburg County, where police found their bodies shortly after 1 p.m. Sources said David Crespi summoned police and confessed to the killings during the 911 call. Police would not confirm that.

“Our investigators will go over that tape,” said Keith Bridges, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police spokesperson.

Police said they had never been called to the Crespi home before Friday, and a motive for the killings has not been disclosed.

"We're not anywhere we can talk about a motive in this or any reasons someone would want to take the lives of two little girls," CMPD's Bridges said.

Investigators will be at the home all night gathering evidence. Emotionally, this is one of the most difficult cases police ever handled.

“I can’t describe to you how horrific and how sad this is,” Bridges said. “It’s horrible.”

Bridges said officers initially hoped that one girl would survive.

“One of the children is inside the house and one of the children is outside because when officers first got here, they thought that one them might still be alive,” Bridges said. “They brought her out to try and get her to Medic as quickly as possible, but that wasn’t the case.  She had already died.”

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When police arrived at the home, Crespi was outside and surrendered without resistance. 

“As is typical in any situation, the police officer would give the suspect commands to do certain things. That should be no indication that he was not cooperative. Everything that I’ve heard is that he was cooperative and easily handcuffed,” Bridges said.

Police notified David Crespi's wife, Kim, of the murders. Officers blocked the street to prevent her from arriving at the scene unaware of what had happened. The Crespi's three other children were not home at the time of the murders.

“Chaplains are with the family right now at headquarters so we will be providing whatever assistance they might need,” Bridges said.

“I just honestly and truly believe that this was some kind of terrible thing that just went wrong,” one neighbor said.

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Sources tell 6NEWS thad David Crespi is a senior vice president and managing director of internal audit at Wachovia. The Crespis originally are from Sacramento, Calif., where both David and Kim Crespi graduated from California State Univeristy, Sacramento, also known as Sacramento State. They attend St. Matthew Catholic Church in Charlotte, where David Crespi had served on the parish finance council.