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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸; W( H- H* l( x8 d3 @9 p8 V) f
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6 M$ ^7 c5 f: d) j, ]5 BPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated ; j3 W0 Y4 C* `
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
$ d a) e' Z, I$ jMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
8 I1 S& k, s* y$ ~) U- @9 n* ?impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
/ f' u& R* }, u0 D; M1 Wwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.' k5 C6 A# Y4 k7 A& P( D% _2 j& ^
) L+ ?$ {7 N* m9 \- `7 NPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
: e! [% G3 p0 r: l4 W0 o9 R. _South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
# ?2 p; `; K* qtold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
1 \' |3 x3 J( c) J1 }/ Jisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.7 L, M0 k8 P8 h7 k. S
6 T' R% [( W6 {7 D& |4 l" d"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 9 k7 ^ m5 x! h: \% t# T9 Y6 _& P$ Y
District Attorney Jill Phillips.. ]6 V4 _/ ^) F, \# F4 r S5 c
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
, N; K" {7 g; D Kyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
4 `5 u2 ]" W$ Y3 D! U. aof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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' k- K; |( _2 C6 s8 eHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
+ [$ _& A3 ^, x0 ]that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were * M! x2 l+ C) I# w: d6 A( z% ?; N j
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
1 i1 \1 V) K+ X+ U; V, Z; u1 Jabused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 " }7 K0 R# g# u% O) g/ [
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
- w3 ~' y8 w- H& s' y0 ^$ Q/ J* }stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with . S9 O. k" h: }+ f
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous ) z4 U5 A3 o0 D" [1 C
relationship.
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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' b, r9 Z/ G% U, `5 fChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 3 A, F8 \/ |- w* M, A6 r
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read./ S# N: Q$ l( s
" @7 |* Z) r! c( _: I"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very ( Z( k" {8 I( h7 U! h5 ~% a- c
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
3 I3 `/ ]0 r6 n3 U2 Q! s* k# S+ `number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully $ E# t* }* B4 C1 j: `. T4 v+ s4 Y& u
recovering are slim."
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2 e# x T9 U. C( P, X% A+ K- cDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in 4 d* a% Y9 L5 H- x3 [' l C" M
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her / W# q) S; a( T5 p8 @+ X O" }
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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; B4 c7 |6 t* J. Y% Y3 m" g"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
) O3 ]; U" M% z* z* R6 x% @are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
$ S9 K& }& X2 A/ cHopkins testified.
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7 M( h5 |4 _& PHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and ) i% O0 @# J1 @% X% M
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
$ K* i& }8 U* s- K1 ~8 k; `Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in 5 P. Y5 b) ~2 b
Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.: Q0 |4 t" _1 r' A
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got " Q9 U, }4 c( m+ o; A
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.
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5 x4 S0 a5 b& VIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and 4 I3 E# Q* U8 e6 s: }0 r; M5 G
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He ( a0 a$ n* M5 L9 a8 k* C2 P) ]- V
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a ; p% n" w' h1 R! V/ \/ h+ p
prophet who could see the future.
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5 ]: E. _- }8 A2 ~Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 2 n2 \4 R% C* s E. p
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who ! s8 f7 G5 m4 F2 x
commended the jury.0 O. w$ u6 t: f. o2 U
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to - g8 D4 E1 K; r8 C/ u
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