![]() ![]() “It’s just knowing you got power over them snakes.” The reporter was Dennis Covington, a former war correspondent in El Salvador and a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who was covering the trial for The New York Times. “It just makes you feel different,” she told a reporter. Darlene, it was pointed out in the trial, had handled snakes in worship herself, and even carried pictures of her favorite rattlers in her purse. ![]() What can one say about such a man, except that he must be unspeakably cruel and evil? But he had his defenders among his parishioners. Darlene was saved Glenn was tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 99 years. But he passed out first, and she staggered out to the kitchen and called her sister, who called an ambulance. There he poured himself another drink turned on the television, and waited for her to die. After dictating the note - “Daddy’s asleep,” it said, “he don’t know what I’m doing” - Summerford dragged her back out to the snake cages, made her stick her hand in again, and, after a canebrake rattler bit her for the second time, kicked her back into the house. He beat up his wife, Darlene, put a gun to her head, forced her to stick her hand in a cage full of rattlesnakes, drove her around while her hand ballooned and blackened, and then compelled her to write a suicide note to their son. In October 1991 Glenn Summerford, pastor of The Church of Jesus with Signs Following, in Scottsboro, Alabama, got drunk. David Hartman is the Minister of the Harrodsburg Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. ![]()
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