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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸; S! B9 C8 D9 R( [; O
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7 w1 L, M% `0 y4 \! [8 Q4 bPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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3 H( g, G/ h4 V9 CBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
4 h- r; i0 L5 ~Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET5 G! J$ w. L& p+ L- O; D- `+ ~
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
* N5 K8 c: y, R5 Bimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
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1 ~! S5 C/ u" g$ [. j% M4 ePeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
. ]& x( X3 u) SSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
' ~2 S+ a% |5 C) P/ X1 P+ v/ } k6 ztold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
2 [. ^0 J) x1 ^$ l5 fisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
2 z: y. ]1 r' X( v( T! L) {District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-7 s& i& D2 R; `. W" [
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 2 t, d' m1 K+ H8 i0 ^/ m4 W% _
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were $ v' o! ]# J; V$ j0 C* ~4 s0 U
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had ( t' r% `, {: Q0 k6 e' x
abused and impregnated.. N1 k7 W- w, q# ?
1 n: G& k: r. _1 qInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
, c( \ s B9 @/ {/ a# C- eafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
* |. t( |2 @! D" n! u* M6 Lstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with : [, V" U1 J* p# e
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous ' \; `9 q" a* I* Q' u
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led 4 D( f# z f& H/ P; G- f
him from the court.4 ]. {9 c# A- O+ @, |! x
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 9 e4 c M$ V4 {- B7 N
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 0 R. S2 e( D, f9 Y7 I
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
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recovering are slim."9 r3 e- X5 R% l7 G) N; R4 D* h0 i
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.8 Q! A& {! Y! O T% j
; O8 M3 G2 `5 g9 F6 E' V2 ?Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in & l8 u7 k- s) T$ e
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her 1 C4 y8 m; i4 F
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.8 K+ d4 z3 [3 C' S4 }- i& |1 k
! Y9 r) [- T/ A) m$ u"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
5 G- h; U, W C$ Aare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
5 n: n: T* C* y. t. ~Hopkins testified.
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/ x& _) H; ]& V$ _) w4 f- j" _/ \; Q5 EHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
9 A3 P+ v" X5 L) r& K* z# Dearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near - R4 H4 o; ~7 }2 B! N( ]$ q, G# I6 u
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in & N# g) z+ M; K6 E1 r
Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got # z+ {' N, x- h# b, Y4 u
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.1 {+ ?. U% E% ~6 [7 @5 _" x' A
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and ( ^) p6 g6 Q. ^/ Q$ L! j
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 0 G0 Z* P( ~' @" \# [( N. d% m
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live ) B, z) ~ v |' Z6 I
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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w& l! q8 L9 O8 Y7 _"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to ' R5 ^ @* m" C1 E# O6 A
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