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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/ {- t* F" M+ k( ]; O4 n
4 b! F3 P7 }: e. c& m0 g pBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 1 [* g2 T/ y. k7 G6 g# X! Y
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
' W3 k7 V$ Y3 k0 [5 l5 hMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 4 f$ G* f8 v' t( G
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 7 v* P5 Z3 _5 H; k/ B9 f6 F
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
7 V; j' E, { e0 K8 ]South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
+ U$ r; c* y2 z/ W7 Btold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
7 R8 R7 }" H6 bisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
, \& E, X6 F$ k# u( F- C; vDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.* W5 ?# S& ~7 u& R2 ^4 d
9 |) j3 C1 I& o" I: w4 ]- xAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-/ x8 n# j3 F5 P
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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; m% t0 o9 B! c1 q. w3 S, }9 jHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
* k3 v1 {; z U6 l, d+ ~: o9 n' uthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were : _1 Y% ~ x3 D* f$ n6 e- r2 E
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
2 F: u7 \4 {; X5 m4 }abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 / o3 P" H" ?: I4 ~
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
; o( p' H) e+ o/ h5 G* Astuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
. r( H# K. ]0 J! ]2 b# G7 Wher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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0 d" z; j. X; X: A& L5 b# f$ p: FHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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, }3 G3 x% Z, @0 e; |$ H& ?Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood . y! J/ j( z' D# ~0 `
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.
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) i7 g [1 ?; Y2 w"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
* w- f- z1 f5 p- ?6 Tdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
: k7 |; h/ E) q. Q# pnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
8 O0 M e' Y9 U* P- Erecovering are slim."
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1 l# X7 Z4 P& @0 g; qDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.9 F5 W( @; Y1 P% C! w. t
- Z) x+ u0 }( q6 AHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ( o! \0 m! O; V/ g$ _' q+ J6 z
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
# i7 i" D, f" g9 zeight children, an month-old infant, beside her.% |$ Q$ Q- ]9 v4 u8 v, I$ g
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
+ b1 V$ A) U9 @are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," + l, h, [4 G3 v' S
Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and ' e( H& M4 i3 v
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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1 ^5 t5 {1 s0 C. O t$ U$ `, yHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got 1 L2 E! k" j2 c7 z
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.; ?9 m3 U9 E+ n4 l5 u* Y9 W
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
& Y5 I- `& w% }* S$ jbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 1 s7 ^( p3 H7 P; |" H
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a - n% {: z0 i5 A% N+ w
prophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
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commended the jury.
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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