Adrian Edward Glass, 27, of Moody was charged with two counts of capital murder of his parents, Jimmie and Denise Glass.

Glass was sentenced to a lifetime in prison without parole for each count of murder.

He was spared the death penalty, since agreements of his sentence had already been discussed with the family and officers.

The prosecution was Carol Boone and John Dimarco. In his closing arguments Dimarco said that this case was “an unthinkable crime. An unspeakable crime that he committed. He’s pled guilty because he is guilty.”

The prosecution said that despite a night of drinking, Glass’ decision was a conscious choice to “pick up the gun in the gun cabinet; realize that it didn’t have a bolt and go back to the gun cabinet and get another gun; realize that the gun was a semiautomatic, then go back to the gun cabinet and get the gun that he shot Jimmie and Denise with.”

The jury also was reminded of Glass’ very detailed confession of killing his parents, taking money from his mother’s purse, the $500 check from his father’s business binder, smashing his mother’s cell phone and fleeing.

The defense argued that there wasn’t enough evidence to say that Glass killed his parents, but they were reminded that he had admitted to killing them and even describing to the police which gun he used.

On July 31, 2009 Jimmie and Denise Glass were found dead in their bed by Denise’s brother-in law Joey Rich and officers Matt Morris and Paul Brasher. While searching the rest of the house, three different guns were found in Adrian’s bedroom.  

The murder weapon, as testified Tuesday by Charlie London Pearce, was a Marlin .22 bolt-action rifle. Pearce informed the jury that in the master bedroom where the victims were found five bullets were also found scattered around the room, which lead the investigators to discover that one of the guns in Glass’ bedroom was the same gun that killed his parents.

 “By the time we received Jimmie and Denise Glass, both of their bodies were already beginning to decompose, such as a greenish skin color and skin starting to come off.” Medical examiner Dr. Emily Ward told jurors Wednesday.

She explained to them also that Jimmie Glass has four bullet wounds. The bone above his eyes had also been fractured by the bullet wound above his right ear. While his wife, Denise had three bullet wounds. One was a graze wound and the other two were direct hits to her head and chest.  

It took police six days to track down Glass. They found him after monitoring his bank accounts for several days. He was found in South Dakota and escorted back on a plane to Alabama on August 6 2009.