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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸$ c# F$ m* ]3 l! ?" B+ G
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. s( }9 Z0 k) iPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
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MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ! V6 ]4 l8 M! o9 f; M" K; T
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his , B) l( {. z1 @1 `, P! a
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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: E& a# f9 O n7 l" R$ I7 I* fPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
! B G$ o" q1 o7 {6 ySouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 6 A% E: P* C7 z/ ~
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
7 R8 W1 b" ^# V2 X2 `+ ~isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.2 H# Z' O! ~, z" \, ?3 ?1 \4 T8 b6 f
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
8 L: k& _+ d0 [3 `7 m, R& lDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.
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/ z; [4 b% r4 d, o9 C+ C; rAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-% K6 Q$ j. _: F" e$ {
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse : V+ k: C7 w# C$ x
of 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
5 W+ Z! h2 t& [that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were / R7 b# r: y. u0 o
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
6 _3 m) i2 I- K p, d5 k7 {5 k+ Iabused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 6 @ l- w- g I: F# I8 g
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 9 e- Z# H" m! A
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with % v! |& u) x2 O) s6 Q' K
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous 0 t: w) R. b6 y9 a# c4 ?, T
relationship.2 h Z! f5 N! b0 E, n( o) ^
2 J% I1 G: M9 sHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
" c, q. H) g4 G3 D1 Dhim from the court.3 D" b T" B! s C6 V) I
1 g4 \$ b- V. N+ vChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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- Z& v+ l' a0 L [5 G% s; r"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
: A4 I) }* \- u) F4 K% Cdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A ( Y% y( @* ^% D4 w
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.0 ~8 U9 B* h Y7 U
3 H& n; R1 N% j. f( QHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in 1 P) O- M5 V0 n. c: l( H: c1 W1 C
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
. O* U% Y8 Q( h$ t) `# peight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
0 a( s/ {$ m8 yare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
% B, C& B* x& u8 |% `6 Y: R Q8 bHopkins testified.0 c# j7 T+ m- \' E' d: [* A
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and % x+ Y' `: Q; l, M* f8 ^; w: t. [
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
1 _* C7 J: [9 Y' Z7 }( I" \7 uMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
1 a# I1 p! ]4 w* a$ r# d$ hFort 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 & V& }' g; I* T; E1 v9 P/ D, B
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.3 Z1 `9 ^( D) g' h
) @! i% v, K% }2 ]" J/ SIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
! `' E# c; J6 U0 Q; t7 [7 y' Abegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
- r! N; S3 `- T0 Vdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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% X* I& i+ C% uSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live # [9 [' m1 r) n8 K. H+ m6 z
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who 5 ?* p# l) O* ^
commended the jury.$ {- d: b* i# H+ V6 s
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
# `7 S0 o6 r9 s! p$ b& k! Qconvict him," she said after the verdict. |
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