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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸2 F* K0 L) X# l6 ^9 W
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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9 }# J/ P8 f" ]8 lBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
7 k( t3 i4 e/ k; N: v2 F1 JPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
# H) d$ r B9 r- I, K2 g/ p" JMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
# J, C" ~1 a8 Q2 B e; Qimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his + `( a5 V- Y4 W: S& W# I) E# C
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.7 S {! f2 `) k
3 b+ x9 U& s* V2 vPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
W: O- [& e, H3 O8 k7 ~- USouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
8 E) Y$ a# u6 \' ]1 T0 ktold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, 8 b0 ~5 [. @+ z' _
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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# y, j% }7 ?, R" G"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
$ [5 {- F; @1 h, ODistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.6 |4 E% Y- Q0 p; z$ \. M5 x
" p% h/ L8 ^* c' P( I) |4 JAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
1 `. b8 n+ f: d4 ~- c" D( ryear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse 0 I* V/ Z3 h3 e( R$ I+ D
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
1 O, g$ z& H' x. q5 [7 Y' A$ Tthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
2 C3 m9 X: t5 z& r* A1 Y! Pled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
! J0 q. V& I( ]' B4 habused and impregnated., `$ A" ~8 u8 t) ^* g) t
: ]5 w- Q! b9 v6 P1 n+ y0 ZInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 + q0 E; u. _: ^; ~; f5 t
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
0 F( M g) L Bstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
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; U9 W) w) t. u1 V4 BHopkins 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 $ ]. l# q% g5 w1 }. B
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
& I) B2 m! {" u; W Q' ndisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
- b$ N6 B d& tnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
; j; j: W6 ~- A$ @recovering are slim."! Z q/ t# I9 H% P3 T
4 S- n( `5 E( k/ M" @Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.! g2 A/ J! n3 t$ i8 m2 G
0 {2 u' G" h. A3 nHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in , |. F) _+ f! x, T" Y8 p
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her ( o# n; U8 K' T* \- s
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha ) t! S4 b8 `: x+ z
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
: [0 G T, \1 e9 b& y! iHopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and - K9 t$ k1 f; ?& W* X$ \9 ]
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near $ u- v( A! y7 |# @
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
& V: p! s* S$ F0 h0 O: Y# GFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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5 W, ?6 L2 y' @7 W* G: F# THe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got 0 `' y4 i$ M6 Q |) O' J3 p" f
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.
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, |+ r# R1 o' Q' ]It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and , Z! Z2 [6 j0 d1 |# P) u
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He & n6 X& I V* `
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
9 x+ N: P$ }6 zprophet who could see the future.' |4 h: F! v! ?) N; f; D
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live ! n! w5 z' | u4 G9 U
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to 6 l$ }. b }9 @
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