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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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& g6 ]! k5 ?! G# u. T3 kPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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; S' ]' B$ f4 N. O" R0 YBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 2 {' f- }# _1 R
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
5 G9 t* C: Q* X/ p, uMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ! t- n. X5 X+ Q8 `+ m$ e9 C+ L2 `. [
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his & S3 Z& I* t& Q K0 I: C
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
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% D; [+ N2 N7 d" A/ x. O3 I' Otold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, ; D `8 h8 X8 y$ h
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
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
' I8 L: C: d* j, ^year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse % F1 [1 q( q. }4 C- c- {0 K3 [) Q3 T
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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, r! A6 ]4 X$ ?, b; J$ LHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges & ^8 I% q. N9 P* I& p* N
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
% r7 c9 x- Q3 Z8 V) l4 v6 Jled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
5 H$ s& }# v% z( Y6 b0 m0 qabused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 3 _& `0 a. L- ]& \7 K/ {
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 7 K- O5 F' g5 n0 o
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with 6 I( r$ u0 ~. R& h4 o; b, p
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led ! ?) b( i# Y! \0 T# ]6 \5 N' N
him from the court.
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a- b. U1 V5 b; m2 B: y) AChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 3 u8 \* a* a5 ^; R( ?1 z9 O' j \
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.# M4 k; {6 `' B3 u/ q0 @! m0 g/ m1 S* Q
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
: ~: U# ]5 b' s7 j3 ^9 qdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
, t: D& i6 u2 c% S' A1 _* |number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
, W3 d8 }, t5 irecovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.: Z8 Q1 @1 l% h5 v0 E( K' a
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.0 \ f) r# c: Y6 [: `" t
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha 8 P, `& u1 {* m+ L7 L. p Q
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," " Y* h5 R" O( P" i9 u
Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and 9 V1 ]4 }7 [# s5 u/ J9 g! r) L7 r
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
1 E+ t- K4 Z/ e% R2 N, lMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
2 B! i. a' _- J! w- jFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.6 p' c. G& Y( T# T
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
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( g2 Z+ v2 _5 ~( z# F% `It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and " m5 x9 T) |8 m- M5 e
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He ' Y) G6 z1 f5 w+ Z! P' r$ g& E: g
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a - h& U2 s8 ]1 [/ Q2 I( R3 n5 P
prophet who could see the future.1 t! b3 n. T+ Q: @
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live , \9 ?2 S4 F' s7 V' k1 @
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who % G9 o# u+ t$ X: C
commended the jury.
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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