166: Alabama Snake

Jean Steven was very close to her sister and her husband. Perhaps a bit... too close. We've got a bit of an odd story today, Fam - straight out of a Hitchcock movie. Why did Jean keep the embalmed bodies of her husband and sister IN HER HOME, and how did she get the seemingly all ...  Show more

In July 2003, 34-year-old Shawn Johnson was in New Orleans for a conference. And he did WHAT ANY OF US WOULD DO and tacked on a few days for a little bit of fun. On his last night in town, he found himself at an infamous bar called The Dungeon where he met a group of people who h ...  Show more

The HBO Max documentary, Alabama Snake, is the story of a Pentecostal preacher named Glenn Summerford, who on a night in 1991 he either did -or maybe did not- attempt to murder his wife through the act of forcing her, at gunpoint, to put her hand into a box that contained venomou ...  Show more

On a summer morning in 2001, a woman in Alabama woke up in a cold sweat – like she’d just had a nightmare. But the woman knew what she saw while she was sleeping was not a bad dream – it was real. So she grabbed her phone and made a frantic call. Later that morning, police arr ...

In a small Alabama church, faith meant more than prayer. It meant picking up a live rattlesnake and trusting God to spare you. But when Pastor Glenn Summerford’s wife was bitten twice, the truth slithered into view. On this episode of "Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes," we in ...  Show more

In June of 1959, the torsos of two men were found in a rural part of northeast Alabama. The gruesome discoveries sparked a media firestorm as locals feared they had a mad man stalking their homes. These kind of gruesome murders just didn’t happen in rural areas where folks didn’t ...  Show more