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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
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( z, ^# O: E$ n) H4 G; kBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated " f! e5 n$ S7 Q/ l! A# @
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
) ]) \- \4 s0 m" V, ^ iMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
9 q* U- ]6 E6 M* J6 Aimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
0 w u* G4 H3 C+ lwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.5 d, N! `/ @" e5 c: z/ i) ~5 y
0 s- O% c2 ?& i7 B+ l1 E4 UPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the 4 N" I' R5 O& V/ Z" P2 N
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 3 @9 ^" V! }2 l9 U4 W, X! V! C
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, / @3 F: X6 d6 {2 ` q
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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$ H% G4 d& w- R( V& E3 ?"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
, @& W5 j; u; @* B# r5 a# V; KDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.8 m& Z8 X# |1 i
$ z! G$ |# _6 H" jAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
0 E$ n; W% u8 l( j$ Q9 Wyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
: p, |' b9 x) S$ U8 Yof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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. S. P: }5 @6 T4 I& aHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges & [0 O1 s5 O2 O3 R8 e. C0 w( _
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 9 f! F; I& Q! X1 }' e5 _* K
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
' M$ O* o# C1 m, gabused and impregnated., v( k6 n( A. S6 T& W; K
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 6 q) O" C5 M3 J9 P2 w8 E+ z/ g
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
, B8 A/ U2 H& W% \% k( e, E9 _stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
7 p% ?/ P8 Z- m0 t$ I4 A$ U' rher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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! r/ L0 u/ W/ ~* q i7 C' ^5 JChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood ( A5 ]$ }. X5 Z% M U' u9 t* x( a
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.4 A/ N5 I6 F, \3 i3 m
5 N! a* W9 S! J- M"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very 0 D/ _- Z0 w7 X6 J% Z* g: n
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A 3 l7 U) g9 J% ]/ K' z a: V% j
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully , k' c, Q( K' q6 j
recovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.5 Q$ O, `3 o; i/ ]% F
/ {" P' `9 e6 h& aHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ( M7 x" n( ?, Y; l* J
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
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( ~$ u) ?" d5 T. P, x7 P$ q/ n"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha : r3 @$ S+ V" s) {9 G9 F: E9 P
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
5 a/ \8 h; c# P' AHopkins testified.
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' U! \/ d1 p5 U1 u8 lHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
/ @. N& Q+ ~0 {) ?6 ^earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got 4 _# f# }; L1 S& j4 x
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him./ p- V) [; J1 Z6 l- j2 w, _
/ Q( Y- ?$ Y. T# qIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and $ z) o ^' p9 _7 y
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
~0 t1 ^$ f/ i1 O( W% D& pdeveloped 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
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to ! e0 F. M% U `7 t
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