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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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& o9 L3 c; Z' `7 d: s1 s8 l- m8 m1 k) vPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body" I6 y* a5 n. x. |! l# Q/ m
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 3 c" K9 _ [ R$ U& u' X6 t: z
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET, m( D& s; B7 q1 i
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ; ?0 w. j& P9 O+ P; J
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
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. C6 y% p- f0 @& y7 H4 hPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
! @, \) G; x2 @5 @9 p \/ oSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
/ E' ^* Y# b, d1 ^2 \; Jtold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, - t0 g4 O- F# o, I J+ o. @
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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1 o: u2 w% p/ E$ `, ^"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
& y j2 Z' N! o7 }% tDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.2 ]. Q) G$ O0 R3 h- C! m) G6 S
5 l1 S$ @2 O9 w: v! @1 KAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
6 [/ l9 X+ t2 Y$ V5 y! gyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse 5 K, p' R; c' i
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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, j2 {. \* Z# H! Q! k# MHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 8 p* C' J- u% A# i# ]$ z, t# |
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
& \, F ?$ s' `led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 8 p+ D1 X% s4 Q* i
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 8 d4 S) E0 \$ h$ \* M. B
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
( j1 I- ]% v- r- i0 k0 p0 ?her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous ' Y; d4 G+ ]5 D L7 f
relationship.
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led # o) J& D2 I; J+ ~. f3 n% k
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood # |: H* {, t) U t0 K5 t. |
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.# _$ `" O H. L ?5 H& A3 E& c0 S' f
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very 2 Y5 f! R3 q) Z% _% V1 L, y
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A " I0 e4 D: r5 z$ P% ?0 m; ?' ]
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully " M9 [3 L2 L/ Y* S4 D( w
recovering are slim."2 J u+ x8 X3 D
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
, _% m! U! x4 J; M* o7 ?2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her ) L$ X5 t& Q6 [ [: C) i
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.5 w4 u3 A! O2 F6 L; ?, r
! b* K" s' ~- m A# o% n. m"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
4 B( b3 s9 @2 M! `: {6 l' \are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
. m I" r5 o" {' w1 G7 ?4 J/ w( J# LHopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and 7 H/ R# b+ ?% z, d7 V
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.4 b, h3 u* S+ F& C; @
/ I! U" z8 k1 X4 g, `1 |- UHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got % k5 ^5 d( Q8 g" N* _+ N/ e
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him./ Z" ?$ r' h- ^! P8 j6 O, x
4 z8 [5 e' q1 V9 lIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
7 J2 x- u6 m7 Z' d$ nbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 3 e$ O" L: A" k9 n3 `2 m5 l- {0 W% H
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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8 J: U' Y6 l* t7 K0 \. gSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live ! \4 w0 q# X n2 e. p- I+ z
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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