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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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9 R( {# ?& |4 Z1 L, S0 u$ {9 @; GPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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6 f0 O/ g. E4 g6 C$ W0 M! @: QBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated " i& m) F, f, L
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
B* G2 I; h: p! f" t* P! [7 f% Z1 CMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 4 z- y/ g1 m. M0 f
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his $ w2 o( f: v( ~
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.! H; Q+ a h; s
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the ( P# Z9 e! ?+ ^: z( T1 U
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
# o8 ]! C5 }8 K8 |told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, ! e! K$ u, D) C1 q# v( h9 h# [+ ~" G
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.8 h$ Z& _; Z ^: }: n: i
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 1 P" I* \: H2 V) k5 q; j \
District Attorney Jill Phillips.7 D; S1 A2 C3 e
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
, c9 r& D& p( p8 I M- [( v0 Zyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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+ C% |% L/ m* `6 t7 r! L AHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
+ l: J- E% S% D1 H. G/ q3 `that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
, x* g& K9 w. D ]5 W p$ oled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had % O( `7 v6 v9 H. i7 F. E( q5 ]! n0 d
abused and impregnated.% M; ?- W9 h3 e7 O
2 | F) f# T s$ NInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 # ^& n2 o1 k6 q/ V7 P* I# T( {
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 6 b+ X$ |: b& ?6 T, z* B. C$ B; v
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
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relationship.
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% W d' a" J7 U, n; v. HHopkins 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 ; b1 _5 G4 J7 Z# a) w& [+ p1 g! }
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 , N+ J" ~/ n+ {
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A % F0 f% b# r/ B2 ~" }! g: w% a
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully : |# n/ Z" `% }, b+ E3 D4 o
recovering are slim."3 I; V( I2 P& T g2 Q0 o# A
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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( ~5 @& [3 N |4 i h, { Z% RHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ' @6 k4 T7 X# r" R
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her # q* q0 ^# f9 x$ m. r
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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4 d6 R6 P7 {( Q- L"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha 8 \8 M7 ]$ m6 ?5 ^/ A* | l# k
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," 5 D0 @( D) o0 Z. j8 ^$ W, j
Hopkins testified.
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% ]* W0 j; M% O7 x1 E& _- g( e: t5 gHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
3 ?" b8 j1 b% D& Z9 ?- L1 c8 ~earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near : U8 _# f/ U4 G4 v& k
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
, W: x, w$ v9 H( r, N' h" _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 9 _' I4 C4 k1 @. x
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.
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: B4 e3 ?4 Y( v$ QIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and ) \0 E6 y5 N4 x& F9 T
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
. O( a) b" M; _, r. o3 ~, n- [+ mdeveloped 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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commended the jury.
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: y; [% J- _; g"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to / h- @8 f) T" ^
convict him," she said after the verdict. |
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