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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
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MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 6 q- ^" ]% v$ P
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his & f W1 M5 D6 p! ]$ G2 @- A
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.$ [+ H$ k$ V% } Z1 C* B' m+ U
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
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told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
) _* `& E; C, r: ?" misolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant + x- P Y8 `# I, @+ i( O3 G
District Attorney Jill Phillips.4 s2 D0 j3 V. v/ I
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-" g, m4 z" P% |" G
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse ( q4 m( j9 A5 k) v; s) j, S+ v
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 2 I/ f: e. g S+ B
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
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abused and impregnated. Q9 P6 }; t7 C/ _+ y! D! J7 P. n
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 / M% Z3 S5 b" q' F
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
/ I- p: w! v9 C6 Hstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with B4 k' N: R6 y9 p) r
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous 3 c2 @$ e+ V2 ^6 N+ U" U3 ^
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4 Q7 v: D0 a( N* t) i2 tHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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3 A7 q" d: W0 c2 L7 {Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood / {1 B6 S4 a0 ^. Q
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.4 q" k$ U3 d" z3 h( ?2 p' W
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
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) l: E# b1 s2 Z" y% _; Qnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully 4 Z; L" N3 a% t+ C- Z
recovering are slim."
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. x# C1 n# J- e6 J3 V2 ?Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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6 m8 G1 Q3 L) `+ N9 ]5 a# O/ W0 }2 FHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in & Q! w b8 L% v& ?! Y& J
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
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
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Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
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orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.' G2 A4 `9 a' U; Z6 a) j9 e+ H6 B
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
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prophet who could see the future.* i$ A$ l9 Z9 _
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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
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