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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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% [2 z6 A8 l9 ?! y8 N. vBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated ! Y$ g2 e4 k- ?% n# g; r I
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET5 D, b o+ y$ R/ O5 d
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while m3 v, D) W n0 ~5 }" E) p) \
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
0 t/ l5 S, T0 M+ Wwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the # D5 X0 N" `: Q2 Q% h) |" I9 Q$ Y
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor : o8 g9 V4 C, x; p, k8 q2 a
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
. V6 Q3 m$ v/ D8 _. p/ hisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 0 e9 D* }5 {" h
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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8 F4 V! H: `' R2 Y$ O w& n' tAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
8 T8 M0 E% }$ O* t, C/ \year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse 3 l5 Y- l W7 v2 ?# Y
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.; K# O5 f$ A$ G4 U. W
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges ! I: |1 K4 Z' O5 R2 t) r3 p
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
5 M9 a! k5 { M+ g# f$ ^led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
0 [- ?/ r2 ^( E. G# J; j8 Iabused and impregnated.
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; V$ M1 U9 Y$ C: N0 bInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
% o2 c! {/ z( Mafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
5 \0 i/ [# q# F0 M+ a7 Q5 g1 `stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
1 `6 s# Q4 S+ j1 L6 H2 kher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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# n& R/ ^, g+ X% g# l! mHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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, L: y+ X: y* h" GChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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7 z! u# Y- q& k3 ~9 ]"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very O3 Y2 p c" k: _3 u: j
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
; [8 x$ C9 y6 R9 H% E# G( jnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.+ N) S% W$ w+ Z$ j0 }# A5 I, K
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.& j3 l W5 e: J# o5 [- m
- v, [$ l% [2 c) l0 {"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha ( @( i. |' y3 @! y
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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% p8 A$ S. m& `$ ~' w3 E# |Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
' J' U! m/ q6 u8 g- u3 W5 aearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 8 N+ m! `0 z% W% G6 U
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
3 x3 S) | e- x+ ^& PFort 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 * @* A/ _, ~ C" s
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him./ O5 P" @+ F. ^1 R# B8 @9 W
6 h2 _9 K9 {2 lIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and , b* R# k/ X8 V/ i8 f0 r( R
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
0 i2 m9 _0 X% j- udeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a 7 Z3 g& y- j) [) F1 @
prophet who could see the future.
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4 t3 _ ]" t+ w# J, zSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live % i1 L) v) y: P% b$ t
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who * T+ n, O7 X! G
commended the jury.6 |& j. d9 k0 r' e4 t9 D7 K1 Y
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to $ h/ Q3 I8 T) z* B% J
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