The Truly Horrifying Crime Scene Of Brent And Charlotte Springford

On November 22, 2004, Oxygen writes that Scoutt drove Brent to a train station for him to travel from Colorado to Alabama to speak to his parents about his finances. On the day before Thanksgiving, Boulder Weekly states that Brent arrived at his parents' house in Montgomery's Garden District. As he no longer had a key, he entered the home through an unsecured upstairs window. The Springfords, however, were not home because they were visiting their daughter, Robin, in Birmingham. So Brent decided to patiently wait for his parents. Unfortunately, it appears that he never planned to have a civil discussion with them.

The Greenville Advocate notes that Brent did not come empty-handed; he was armed with an ax. When Brent Sr. and Charlotte Springford returned home on Thanksgiving day, another article from Boulder Weekly reports that Brent violently beat his parents with the ax handle. This initial attack did not kill them. Brent then took a knife from the kitchen and cut their throats so deep that the pair was almost decapitated. He later admitted that he did this because "[he] 'didn't want to hear them breathing anymore.'"

On November 26, Brent Sr. and Charlotte's bodies were found (via Oxygen). Per the Alabama News Network, Jerry Armstrong, a fellow worker at Pepsi and Brent Sr.'s best friend, made the gruesome discovery. He stated, "It was a lot of blood. Lots of blood. And it was in a couple of different areas. It was pretty obvious that something really really bad had happened."

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