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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 - u9 Y9 o, \" G. e! p4 n* M
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET% q8 d8 O! N- {. m1 F- m" e
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
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/ A L/ [0 F& a; l, Twife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the " H9 P* J. a* ~" J! h
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 2 Z; e$ d, R% ?8 X$ a$ G& a/ m6 a+ L
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
* z j9 R3 R& ]- w. [) {isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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3 b3 N+ G, s* Z7 L3 X$ N2 G"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-
# _, C7 n% _. z* C5 Byear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse ; j( |4 J7 p& E# K" r2 d3 [4 @
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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7 _# ~) u" w0 E2 V z" kHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
5 d5 z& i# W/ }( S! |that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 2 M. h5 L, Q: ` K6 C+ I5 t% T
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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& m" c& p) L/ l: @5 F4 }( X7 }Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
& [( O8 ~1 E4 q5 i) T4 Jafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
. u% p7 T" E) A( Q/ Jstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
8 |; w3 {4 r% p/ o7 n8 U" {her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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% n0 Y; U- \7 c5 { X. X9 ZHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led & \! X# W1 j, J0 {: Y4 q
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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7 a, e$ L! u: b9 t2 v& f"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
9 l) f1 ^# X9 K S& r+ W/ k7 Ndisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A # Y$ u" ], g$ \4 Q" [
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully , q0 z( m$ c; G4 A
recovering are slim."! u3 G" _% j* x" Q) x; J1 I3 \
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.' l- z5 w1 F5 f2 |$ s- ]7 e
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in Z# q- \4 ^6 [/ i4 i; S* E0 [, N
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her ) v$ _% C" w1 F" C1 ^7 q' _
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.0 S0 J6 v3 q* n4 Z5 |) N6 }) s
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha / x3 G* ^5 i/ N; J# C5 V- @, u. v
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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. }+ q; [. s% }% e; bHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
) Z6 m$ |5 o2 ~" T' Pearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
' E, N {3 u3 N% q9 ^Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
- V8 h+ L% m) ]# Z" T4 J6 a/ }Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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& [, v2 v3 A# o( g8 V A% k: lHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
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2 E5 E- C: Q( PIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
2 e& v; ] S! s6 @; N" kbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
8 h- D+ M" A9 ?" ddeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
: ?6 a' k& }+ b* C- `! cprophet 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 z6 g2 V: \: h
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