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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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$ I1 ^3 \5 n2 OPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body- W- ~9 N6 Y _2 G
- g' ]$ e9 y* H9 M5 x. I$ iBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated & T" d6 o+ `( A+ P& _( }. B, J) ?
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET* |! e i5 ]5 O i0 o
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
6 X- r Z/ T" A# Cimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 7 V8 a; T7 X2 E# Q; D3 a# {( {
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.0 T1 |1 O; F7 V1 ?: @ `
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
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told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, 8 m" a- _7 S* i/ f
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
1 S( X7 K: E* S1 pDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.5 k+ D+ P0 _+ L. t
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-' `8 R/ Z4 t, \1 J; u
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse + U- F4 i- e& r. C$ @; b
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.% o2 |# O& E) e6 D# A
- f: v. D: {) S( _Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges # L- m: ~! E4 M0 J4 o
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
% z" @/ |' z! lled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
# B5 Q. y+ D: }7 D4 n& `/ _- Zabused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 & E1 C G: }, h" o) k
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then ! P7 C. Z7 @" C, G# R
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with & v* _/ p" @& v4 W/ q8 W
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous - {; d, X+ m+ G4 n* w3 b9 h8 v3 U
relationship. |4 S( p5 h+ i1 t
% ^: U0 l: Y, sHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led . S7 G1 a a) }8 ^- e# d
him from the court.
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' E7 E4 ^& u/ u5 gChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 7 t" @6 t; G* Q
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.; s; o2 X: b1 p( Y2 L
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very 6 E0 f. ~5 @ ]- W
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A ' X! ^9 w7 `' M& H0 P! E6 h
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully e e0 \5 e( ~5 m, @" s; P
recovering are slim."
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# S* R3 E5 L8 m4 e. i1 |( |) qDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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/ P$ D6 V8 _7 w$ v) ]2 zHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
9 d6 N& T5 \7 [& [" e2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her ; W! N) L: B! f' W( d; X6 o) L! U: _
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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* S0 u0 p. Z [' J8 g8 m3 C"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha : [/ S7 A& ]- M, @( `
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," ! F/ m$ W5 ~/ V% I% {
Hopkins testified.6 g+ }6 E8 b: |3 K6 _$ Q
3 A+ F6 F) a; V0 M, [3 T) RHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
( O" ^6 g5 f2 Y9 S1 C* ?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.
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got ( `9 D$ f0 v3 g3 @6 M; j3 E" o
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.+ x3 r. k! Z1 Z3 i) b* z
8 T8 t/ x5 L! r, ?It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
" | z' N. { f% wbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
3 ?! h( i+ }: `. o$ D- T& Jdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a " a4 O7 [ k2 l- k0 B5 H; N" F* S
prophet who could see the future.. x* `+ Q6 i- ?8 ?8 ]' @
0 J! B) ]" L- I* |( b! p+ w- x kSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
9 r; h. ^6 H8 O) zwith 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
/ F% p/ O6 L( S$ W3 M2 f! |# }convict him," she said after the verdict. |
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