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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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" A+ l/ M' N) @6 BPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 9 v7 `0 c4 L, L) \9 r7 r
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET7 c4 `4 u. S5 Y4 g
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
9 h8 P/ q+ j4 V- nimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
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9 f+ Q! y$ s3 YPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
2 I* h/ b1 X" I/ }3 O$ oSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
' V/ R- w' j f) {' H4 |0 B. ?told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, / G6 n- B" t4 g! M
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.8 c! Q7 x1 Y) r$ i( |
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
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9 P8 B m/ ?6 n8 o2 f i2 [9 NAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-1 W4 g1 g7 X7 s+ C2 X& A7 C
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse 3 A2 I+ p- G2 [! o( g$ [
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.% U/ E2 V) U6 m, M$ F9 V0 x D3 p q u
/ E' x8 @6 T0 rHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
O' S0 w# @' q, c4 m8 X5 @that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
+ N7 F" U8 Y4 Fled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
1 P! i0 N6 P2 ]abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 ' {5 ?# Q" i6 |: C9 y2 a
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
' c5 d9 G3 V3 i) O( F' u5 Istuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
$ T% o% `3 Q; Y9 u: i: ^, v& O; zher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous 6 B2 X) X" j5 t+ ^: C g
relationship.
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: H# v; h' y# ^; eHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led 8 }" j1 I% k7 N/ Q( B ]4 \
him from the court.' ^* P. Q) i' x2 Z
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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
7 z! P5 J: }" M$ t3 ~disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A 6 q8 a) i6 [, I
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
7 _) ^! S+ E% grecovering are slim."4 j- v5 ?/ W U0 F: C; i
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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7 B2 s( G2 R) G) `Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
- r# l. d* N7 T6 ?/ L7 |2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her 8 l: s' z! w2 o4 t$ a* D& x6 N7 g6 x7 y
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.& t3 I3 b0 n. z' o f! U
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha 1 A; U: E6 U m A; V; H' g
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and : g6 V+ @# s/ b1 H/ w$ I& {0 f6 f1 s
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 4 _* p0 G! O9 R: M7 o- x
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in / e4 b/ g2 _) E8 ?
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 $ \/ Q8 B! F c. A
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 # o. a4 a: ^" u1 P2 P
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 1 O! _' L6 f5 B# y5 y) F8 [
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
0 v1 w4 P: \+ C% Pprophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 9 Z+ {4 a3 l5 k" i7 Z5 \
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who $ s% C' c/ [2 r0 U1 S
commended the jury.
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to " `. M* s, U& J4 g9 x- k
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