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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸0 e1 W x8 t8 l$ c. L" Y
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- o; A$ n/ N" zPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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$ J) U1 }1 _, v" p+ p/ z3 _ I* g$ L5 vBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
8 ~" R0 ?9 x( G9 xPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET Z$ \" p$ ?" f/ m0 J: `
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
( [( J0 f: b4 [7 h6 w/ K0 Limpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
3 u% q& o7 V* ?wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
- a0 ~0 H/ d7 Y- c% N( pSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 8 K/ z& d& v3 ^" s3 ]5 U: N4 ]
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
" X% X8 B' D% C& p" q" cisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them., e- I. _8 {! i$ N
4 m5 F) G4 {0 O- Y1 L. J' r ]"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant $ X/ M g9 p q! ^4 c v) ~
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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6 {% b0 f+ C& OAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
: L( c5 q _! L. m, Y5 C( M% ?year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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( e6 w4 m5 q9 \; Z: qHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges $ M [: q8 Y4 }
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 4 ?. q! b, m* h" Q. ~, a- X
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
+ H! V8 Y7 E2 I% ]after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
- [% G3 R" o% H5 [+ l% Mstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with 4 c; V5 r% l3 N. j1 L2 ?9 Q
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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9 c% l+ K8 n$ @7 z' @Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led 9 f0 y5 V: [# {, w- R; C$ R
him from the court.
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5 `! C, q I: h2 H9 V) DChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood ( h1 n3 j0 _8 \( |: @) I( I
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.4 L, \( v% C- C* @3 c( }
* d* v# l! X! A! A) o+ R"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
$ I- w, }! c2 Z0 K" p: ?# p1 wdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A ( v! ?( u* K0 [& g0 @7 Z, t
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully ! ~, ]/ |* C9 u* y/ q
recovering are slim.", m8 o/ v9 I$ j& l: V6 }
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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3 @8 P- K. h# B0 K1 [) q8 g+ CHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ) o. M9 Q- P* M; n
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 " ?2 _4 P/ C% T* A; h; p! u. X$ D
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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6 k$ p7 h$ K9 HHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and U. w( u& d3 ?- g+ C+ [
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 3 G6 s8 s: |/ c8 R1 f# ~. X9 b
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
3 L' N+ \8 m8 \! u: i6 qFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.* _; @4 |. U# I% V
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got & J; O4 }: Q, c
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and $ `3 @. s9 k# z! g- t! g& E
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
9 f0 E$ W# Q# X( f3 B/ O. Jdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
* b- E- _( Q) r \ W; uprophet who could see the future.7 Z) s; c# A6 y" m; p( \1 l3 w7 I( U
1 J1 m5 g8 R% y+ d/ ]% vSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live $ v9 o, _8 S; D1 G6 L) M
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who 7 D$ @( ?$ `+ n0 A
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to 6 b( l D: {$ e- _0 N8 J; p
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