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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸; J% I5 R' S% I% o
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9 }' ?& ?2 P' t( S( sPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body$ W$ N; G# L H5 \% }
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
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5 [8 p5 L& w% b- _, }* cMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
9 R8 Z4 G V6 N% t: d Uimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
* \ X9 L/ F' a2 M% m9 Iwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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9 o p) {' w/ cPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
$ m+ d$ S3 s1 w" A+ P/ \( R. M2 `South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor : N! i( V. @) B3 j5 m. t. y
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
* q% @/ \ T! I) Y" A% bisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 5 m; R* t# l$ o' y) B
District Attorney Jill Phillips., p6 M/ g# T4 h
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-$ D% t2 V4 w* B& m2 |7 N$ O6 E( ^
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse & b' \% x( ~9 V" ?. I& a
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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5 o- Y. F( i( ^! A% lHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges . S1 o$ Z' H4 Z4 P) X" f
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were % j0 v. t1 B7 c# Q
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
9 w1 N- y. v& s6 C: B$ k9 @* Cabused and impregnated.# ?* |1 Y+ I7 n+ r, ~9 z8 d* g
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
) p& p$ Z& M' T% y$ gafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then ' @. w3 G% D; s, C& a1 z6 V9 a
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with ; W& B8 ~; T! L( I
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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( L; k9 B* H1 j; R$ g* V" J) [: wHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
! J) Y" f' m9 p7 k! V2 [him from the court.
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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% J$ z0 x& j# {9 {( l4 x" o: i"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very ; E; g' L# O1 Y5 T
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
. y0 I7 @. F+ xnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
) F: @9 X3 l! b: Brecovering are slim."
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. m W H$ |* d0 P5 m6 ^3 \. x- DDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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; C9 B! c6 n3 c. J9 SHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ( t [, V: D( e% R
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her 8 B; Z0 ]2 z2 H
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.8 N- }; E1 J% y, B/ t/ ]- r/ @
+ }' f& z* _0 ^; Y; k"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
$ U# [) ~5 G( J v0 ~$ g+ a8 g, Dare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," 3 l5 m* i( l+ G8 D0 f
Hopkins testified.( U. K0 ~; b H+ T3 t
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
4 \( q% N ^) s) ^- wearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near ' X# e% ^ Y6 k* B/ l
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in . u3 S! c# D% Z+ `( ^3 F G( l G
Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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) Y6 s1 X- h% f4 B, IHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got : M' k# F# A- a( [2 }% p
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.
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! X& U/ h, k- E) KIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
5 l3 E$ p D8 M$ a, _began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
6 _9 H% {6 V" F9 @. q( o. bdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a & ?% F. w* x* v- c9 @% a8 F& T! m) _
prophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 7 T4 i; f- S( w C4 c
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who $ U! W) H- g/ b/ \+ w
commended the jury.. t7 V7 i% K% v! M- J
& \4 T( S: H& E2 r% p0 A) P) L- _"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
: M5 ^9 c4 U" ^3 bconvict him," she said after the verdict. |
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