A former Pentecostal preacher from Scottsboro has been denied parole more than three decades after attempting to murder his wife with the snakes he employed at his church just outside of Sand Mountain, according to state records.

Glenn Summerford was convicted on an attempted murder charge in 1992 and still has over two thirds of his initial 99-year prison sentence left at 81 years old.

He is also serving an additional 30-year sentence for second-degree escape after he slipped away from a work detail in February 2003.

Summerford’s story became the subject of “Alabama Snake,” a documentary directed by Theo Love that premiered in 2020 on HBO and HBO Max.

The film ‘paints a Southern Gothic portrait of Glenn Summerford and his tale of demon possession,” according to a previous release from WarnerMedia.

On Oct. 4, 1991, Glenn’s wife, Darlene Summerford, was bitten twice on the hand after her husband forced her to stick her hand inside a cage of snakes.

He accused her — falsely, she said — of running around on him with another preacher.

Summerford, then 47, was charged with attempted murder and convicted in February 1992.

“He took a pipe and hit the cages real hard so the snakes got real mad and then grabbed me by the hair and said he would push my face in there if I didn’t stick my hand in there,” she told jurors, according to the Associated Press.

“He said I had to die because he wanted to marry another woman.”

That 23-year-old woman denied dating or having a social relationship with Glenn, but a prosecution witness said the woman had stayed at the preacher’s house several nights.