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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 body8 k! s" R# A- T8 o0 K% @3 n
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 3 O, k& j$ t5 X& }8 m, [3 G
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET: g4 `) J4 o0 ^) ~
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
) U; v0 X& N8 w0 W3 d I. Fimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 7 Y, |) R$ v* \9 [+ y1 C; f
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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$ e0 x! l% K. H; V4 n( ~0 JPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
# V; p" f' _9 i. ~0 n8 k/ GSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 9 |/ M7 C0 _) U% ~
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
/ S$ d: B% m! H: [4 Y# disolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.' o8 ^4 [7 }7 E. C% n+ Q
- K/ e& O& m1 n8 ^1 W"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant - I- N9 ?) v( x: S) G; J
District Attorney Jill Phillips.4 q g6 y9 N" \# g4 a1 u3 `9 A3 @
0 i5 k8 \. G+ |9 x, ]" rAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-4 r1 ~- o$ S$ ^
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
3 Q" ^! d: M' Y4 W0 v" ~of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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* m9 S* _ `$ F( o$ Y: QHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges ) l) O( i2 [, l) v
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 4 k0 |0 T) ^* |3 A! W5 Q& n8 v& `
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
- M4 W" I- O9 d% }# Y# y3 iabused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 & b/ ?3 }: e' M3 E$ ^
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 5 N% H+ K# |; T" V3 A/ v3 g8 C/ K
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with 0 ?" m/ h! ?1 y. F8 @# A
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous $ c0 M- U7 g9 T( I
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 7 s+ s2 }% F/ C* Y u
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 1 d3 C: g3 p( c6 a. s3 H1 R
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
7 {. X4 [: [/ R j0 Q7 ]number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully 9 Z! H/ t. H# d" @
recovering are slim."- f) H- Q) Y0 L# X+ I4 L
" S4 _* ?+ h% }) `3 d# f+ w% UDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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- M( |1 t6 @1 {; \"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha ) N$ t) v, s8 o5 ]3 ~2 E1 U
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," 8 E/ c9 r6 v* H1 U% Q u
Hopkins testified.
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2 N0 Y, P# ?9 b) lHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
+ i3 x( L. U9 A% \, S) c- Tearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
5 B" G4 p5 g. n7 N1 t1 z0 UMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
! G8 L) m- S* E, G2 e. p" l/ m' ]) yFort 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 f/ H% Z" o8 Q$ o
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.3 O4 F8 ?) }* |; j% J; r
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
+ |! X( C+ s0 q$ }: nbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
( o/ I6 l* t. B- \& qdeveloped 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
7 c3 C+ i% |1 h# vwith in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to 3 E& V W* ?5 n- m! R$ y
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