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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
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MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
, p s" { t/ s- {' H2 Qimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his # I/ t: l: J) ]7 C& @2 g6 t+ T: }
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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5 x& r) K4 K0 S; BPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the 3 @$ N- X( w1 X; _& w" a; R7 x
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor ' ~, R' J3 M, x
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant q1 j' p5 U+ K4 t2 M5 t+ f# _
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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% n# T1 |$ z4 \. w' C" D8 Q( DAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-$ V6 l. B) D. o, e, f
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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' J W4 I* P2 |0 r/ e' B/ H% l/ ZHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges # n, }# B8 r V( ]) d+ }
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
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abused and impregnated.0 q. y4 c3 O8 l6 O* a* t; p% X
' C' R) @8 b/ J* S# @, WInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
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stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
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relationship.
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, W& U$ O# @1 c' F' m; \Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led ! ]8 S q/ M, |, U
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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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
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number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
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& D# h, R3 d2 UDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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) ~) x0 X0 J; C; ^"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
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Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and 7 t2 F$ v% `7 {; o5 {6 v+ i( w
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near & u6 @* o. o7 w( y+ S9 I
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
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# z3 z7 ^# l: \- R7 y4 K$ DIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
7 S5 M$ s4 p4 ?4 j0 X1 o& b/ nbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He % e: V& J8 j) h/ x2 E! o0 G5 [2 K
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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( O% H8 }9 w9 z& o* T4 c* C% rSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to 3 M6 _$ U5 |4 g3 b, @3 U' g9 [8 O( r
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