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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸5 t9 U1 ?9 s1 P6 X' F6 b3 R0 |* H6 V
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100 ... /us_body_in_freezer
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body# t, i/ E* ]+ t( B# Z' \
4 f6 f8 v% m; }& \$ K" BBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 5 M* o5 e% Z! F7 y2 b; h
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET- Z: B9 f* I) \8 _/ @7 A
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while * r" m$ ~% }4 N- b6 Q
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
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4 y+ T4 l* X A. t( _9 T8 |, ePeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
$ S$ O( a( E" w+ _5 h+ B3 ASouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
2 q& c. t5 Y0 |; H1 Z4 `told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
% I% E7 n4 C1 d# I- Q" aisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant , }& q3 O0 z* I
District Attorney Jill Phillips.5 ?3 Z$ z6 }. i4 Q: N# o
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
; v3 h5 l7 y, p3 @4 l5 E- iyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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' l# G0 ?" d4 Z8 }1 F% FHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges % `4 L9 x/ J" i
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
1 g1 n7 A- u8 G' gled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had * @1 H' S% {* d
abused and impregnated.( o: O) q L& \9 C H3 [( j
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 ! B1 r0 b/ P: G% J% Y, ]4 N
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
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her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous ( `# G; `/ N/ b7 j" X8 }4 k
relationship.
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) R6 i% [: h; [/ k" DHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led 2 B8 M7 {% D# b4 K
him from the court.2 ^5 f1 }. z s7 y/ F& m: V
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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
. l$ N; f- ?2 @disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
9 R7 Y ~$ d/ _number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully : u" j8 [: ?7 S& }5 D* T. ?9 k7 v
recovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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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.
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a8 A, ~9 s1 D9 k8 e"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha 5 n# S f# f9 E! [2 ~ v6 m; T* Y
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and 0 ~9 G+ d9 ^5 [. L
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near : v4 G. l! U5 `3 Q- W
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
1 Y+ r( `, v% |- d/ `! F. UFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.# a% V8 b1 R7 \$ h
) l) l: ~$ d- ? c$ y i3 nHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got # P- V) J0 I$ t" {
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.6 z9 i$ y- ?# Q
6 H7 v: Y4 L' o- WIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
+ _1 a u# e: _- I- ]9 F: r% Ibegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
( h) U- X$ r S, tdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a $ i, J& F% f W- y6 ^
prophet who could see the future.$ A2 h" s W% U) m8 C- x
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
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commended the jury.! z# }3 m- e) B& |
8 u' E! w. p/ j+ n0 k"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to ! S |) ~, w3 E! f4 ^& |
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