GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) - One of Alabama’s strangest crime stories was set in motion 29 years ago in Scottsboro, where a Pentecostal preacher’s wife told police her husband tried to kill her, using the ...

“Alabama Snake,” a new look at a nearly three-decades-old Jackson County case with the twin teasers of crime and religion, debuts on HBO on Wednesday. The documentary, directed by Theo Love (“The ...

One of Alabama's strangest crime stories was set in motion 29 years ago in Scottsboro, where a Pentecostal preacher's wife told police her husband tried to kill her, using the snakes he employed in ...

Snake handling, a religious rite involving poisoning snakes practiced in a small number of Christian communities in the U.S., is at the heart of the new true crime documentary “Alabama Snake.” The HBO ...