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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/ }2 i9 B1 @7 W2 e3 e/ f
6 J- Z" l' e- |$ r! [! J) O N$ pBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
" Z: Z' O3 ?7 U) I& e& }Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET( d4 T# P+ ~3 R
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while & }1 z5 S+ [( l, E& j
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
+ Y% _ J3 [" |: kwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.& ]: ^, F6 `9 G" B
" l/ i& w9 o5 ~( [# S } LPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the & \! s+ u7 m4 p5 Z- n
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor % h6 P; _7 a9 l7 w
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, $ \1 w4 [0 N: x8 t1 Z
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.3 c. \& \& i# w* t# J' u
# G7 h" v ~" g+ C7 }& C0 h' b/ p"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 4 {( r8 H1 ?6 n9 C W( Q' j
District Attorney Jill Phillips.4 Q3 r7 i( R# u3 b! I
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-" }& f+ a8 j4 I) u
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
. ^8 E5 h1 S$ h/ vof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.* W3 ?0 c7 i. ^, R5 |3 e
; }$ Z( a* h2 Z8 T7 h3 KHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges g) h: ]! X c! I; B
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
! N. e7 R0 }( K& Z% f9 gled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had ; W; i% ^# i, w4 [7 s& `
abused and impregnated.7 D& K. ]; }# ^4 }1 q! L
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 $ H. b7 X5 O2 W8 ]: v1 K4 l
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 4 y7 U) V) \$ |# P
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with : H" K/ y J/ `8 S) L# v( `8 G0 S W* ]
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
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
" D! k3 U0 ]6 q5 U2 m% _disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
: N6 |! Z' B M0 H: n5 onumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully ) S& W1 X( E8 }6 u
recovering are slim."7 g( q- ?8 w* D
5 t2 e6 H+ G( ?Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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j2 T! U& C1 ~) GHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in 7 F ?& G6 G0 c8 `) b5 [( Q" q) |
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
, l f* l6 H1 `) k% g @are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," G+ K3 ?9 q% }4 \2 U0 t
Hopkins testified." F: _* T3 |* d- a0 f, A
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
* h( T1 A9 P/ V; mearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
8 ~4 C1 O w. m( eMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
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' B9 g) U( O6 m( d8 LHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got ) g9 ]2 \; s% J5 I: ]
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him. o3 U/ k: e* Z, y% P4 X
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and 6 u- X4 t7 T8 F0 F. L ?* j
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
9 p4 G) K" T! W% k( s$ [developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
9 l6 E) J' x' W9 e& ^prophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live ! E5 {; Q' S, f' a# m
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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/ a# g" \* L v& t"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to / e6 K' m& }/ b Q0 b @
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