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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸9 E0 Q9 v) p% R& m; v8 x! b7 ]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100 ... /us_body_in_freezer
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body# C& N) c3 s9 ?" q8 b
& f4 C' V: |& Q5 S! Z1 oBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
- b8 v5 {; L5 e, K# A1 C+ ePress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET3 N. K; J! \0 F! }; V. f
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ' g: D3 T9 Q' ?9 V9 h
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
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) G3 a) v7 \# B+ X- vPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the & q/ o4 Z* i/ P3 X
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 4 @2 ~5 y( S& z) z
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
$ P# ~0 W3 O oisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.% a' w8 m$ z$ x: q
+ \# d4 Z& }9 d* F6 k% |, `! o. T8 i"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
, S) n/ {0 E% UDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
, T" m8 a( q6 A; d8 F9 Lyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse 2 a, H% v0 w# M+ u* U
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16. ?7 M2 K+ I8 E4 q' Y' ~# r) h/ `3 E
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
* U6 a }5 o @; H ~4 M; Hthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 5 Q( V3 r) `8 ?% b" k, W- C
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
5 m- B: R; K7 H* v; wabused and impregnated.
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& t, h7 y3 }' S2 R% MInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 + D" y: U" @; b
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then [3 m; }) \; ?( y
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
' E% Y7 S. x7 K) Y" Wher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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+ e0 l1 a6 n/ D, B+ `Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led - h( d+ G9 W% u* G
him from the court.0 t( Z9 t1 x4 Z `- }
2 _ c9 \5 `8 e9 s4 O- p* NChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood ! b4 m5 e q/ b* Y
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
2 w3 e0 L8 W4 Zdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
/ L' _8 x) U9 t& t. A Qnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
! c2 l L( o. w8 @% n) Vrecovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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/ v, E1 O3 u) h: P0 w) ?Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in Q, T' C7 \0 R j' U# u5 C
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
6 n) o2 p. b) H. @8 Keight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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: b7 g% U2 E- L1 v2 R" Y- D"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
- a* d7 c3 S" P( \9 d, sare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
1 f* M) C2 D, m0 H ]9 W, yHopkins testified.
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$ z; U" O! ]2 L* U$ y' c. yHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and % I% }; }2 ]$ D) V
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
" y% P/ P- u- L# [9 |* FMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
% p( [6 \: `) }) [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
- Q1 e% ^4 ?. ?& k* Hbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He % j2 U( L9 F! W' w& N
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
2 t& B2 [, N5 i/ T3 I2 mprophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
' v/ j4 B4 h' B) m# s/ qwith in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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: C% D6 ^' Y% r: X4 P"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to 3 s* U/ `5 a- o* n, O
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