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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸* J3 H9 E8 \3 b8 g# ]. R
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' ]0 } x. @6 ?) g( _3 r* IPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body" _3 Y/ Y5 j% Z$ H* A
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated + U( t1 e& ]' e t& r s
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET) N6 I; N6 D0 B
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 1 k- W1 e2 _* v% z8 M: S$ B
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
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% ?+ f! ] D6 Z# b2 V- G z' t K" NPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the , D) a. g S) `2 n7 M/ |/ J( M
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor " \$ C. j# Z( l! d
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, - f _9 D: u, K4 o3 ^
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.6 I/ H4 ~- e/ \! q* N
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
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3 T/ v7 Y& x0 S; T& h$ GAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
: J" Q/ v: Q" l) R$ Ryear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse . X: G) |+ p1 @- y m. p$ |' J
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.8 v5 Z( }4 x7 p: V0 E
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 2 |8 P6 k7 h9 Y8 V6 M, y
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were " ~# K) j% ?' J4 d" g% _9 x& h
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had * F/ f: \- m0 |7 S: J2 |
abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 & h6 G6 S5 C8 w
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 1 m4 s+ t/ c9 {1 M
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with / t4 ]2 k1 ^# h0 p
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous 2 m( d* _' b7 c1 K
relationship.
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led ' D% _* g5 G: L2 [0 d/ Y
him from the court.4 ^" C% `9 I/ M3 ^
/ |: j, h# i. F* S# ~" T9 [Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood # C- A+ f6 X8 ]4 x# Z4 a- G" Y
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.$ {+ X7 U6 w Y' ?" @6 N& m
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
: p8 E; [4 ^% O3 [2 E$ `9 b* tdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
4 v( l0 L; H$ ]; h( Bnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
! a7 `8 E1 { ?1 yrecovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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7 s6 f& l1 n: o$ j! kHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha # t6 q# w: ~, l B( H* Z8 Z; S8 _
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," # O6 A2 m; d8 @
Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and ; ~: d) g: r; y) j0 V6 m
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 4 f& _/ H1 f) m# ]/ O+ r7 Z' B# F
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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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and 5 o, H. T6 ^9 }" [& _: D/ b! n3 ~. D
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
5 w- J) U2 j" o* i! p# {, `8 Wdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
5 {. j8 D$ b- Lprophet who could see the future.
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Six 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 7 ]8 H/ k; _! G, y- Q8 w* Y
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