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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 body2 X, t3 G; q# P: C a! ~' m8 V
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
$ x, W9 [8 r! O8 F. l9 K( a. gPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
" V6 f; G3 @/ U* q. c$ BMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
5 n& W- s0 T! Eimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 3 q: W/ Z6 g7 W. m
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.2 a% ^6 q' X2 n( w" n: ^
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
3 W3 F4 ]/ _ G% ]3 K6 ]South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
# Q) b5 p' [0 `6 F* K1 gtold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, 9 s) r' `+ U# _& }( ^! F" Z* P
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.' j0 G9 m6 s4 w& s3 {
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
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: o6 [" T2 N* \$ O" wAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
; \, d' O/ y. ?) B& ?' C' wyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
I2 Y6 k# g- _+ ^* e. P3 ^6 oof 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
4 b& D& I3 z7 A. x* N6 ?that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 1 H8 M0 D I( }
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had # m+ X0 e/ f/ }/ e& @. L8 |3 `1 V
abused and impregnated.' F; V7 m/ @8 } m& m
; V% @! v' {* a* J8 s4 B8 L8 U4 XInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 , Y( Y; a) F1 C# q
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
/ o0 C. \7 A% i( b ?stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
1 n' ^# h' L8 t. [9 r6 W3 dher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous ; G2 b; q* D9 n; K
relationship.7 U& K# i. f- u: d6 A* `
9 l5 q! w" O6 R( y# WHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led 0 v# ^" D0 @) M' ~& \, I- q
him from the court.9 C; i4 L% } g) I
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
. g2 j4 h, l( _disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
2 v* B8 P. @& w8 i8 ^$ e4 B3 onumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
! ^* f2 a7 j; n$ v, H2 Srecovering are slim."/ h# ~4 s" n p& Z- s$ Z1 a
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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j! T& F- ?6 G1 l+ V) tHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha & E( u0 l8 O! b
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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; M/ W7 R+ `7 u: d! t# h r* JHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and ) ?7 }2 P3 b/ S+ s* @
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
) l$ W1 i; Y6 k' |Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in 2 j8 g5 h. p# q" {* q9 u8 b4 V# P
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 $ }$ W) f/ P0 r W
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.0 z$ C: S+ j/ q( Z$ n4 B8 M' O
8 A* B3 [9 ?* LIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
8 h; j+ Y* T" ?8 Y+ dbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
0 J9 a! e( [; y. j3 l7 `developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a ' J5 V( \8 n9 W4 Q, J
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 9 V8 g+ b! t g o! p6 U, p
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 ' g* w6 m: ~5 H( V) O
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