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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸! T% L( M% X' T3 }# z8 k$ ~
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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% R/ M j8 o7 V% yBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated ! t7 {0 Q. Y9 D, h; ?; S
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
' [' w6 z8 R; Y& \) o: _+ sMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 8 I& X! M- T8 \: @' g2 r
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
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told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, 5 j: u2 j2 J( M( E4 _
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 1 W ]) y* Q h- A
District Attorney Jill Phillips.; U* y. m8 P$ h& r
+ ^2 {! ]: g. I: o9 y5 dAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
" m! T/ `7 ^' M/ r! e2 Lyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse , y. k/ _0 B6 N9 ]$ }; P
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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- r; \2 w! D, j4 s1 T2 J9 hHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 5 n; I& H6 \( T* o2 r, a* K& }# f
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 9 C0 b w3 l8 h: h2 _
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 2 ?2 ?4 W$ y: \, n4 u0 e
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then . K$ a3 k2 d, |/ {/ J& L
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with / v/ ^( i! s8 Q
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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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
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1 H/ y+ C, P6 D5 [3 k"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very 8 R4 y/ ^) u" F; j* A- y/ l
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
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recovering are slim.", Y+ P9 E& A0 a! A: F( K1 E
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions." g0 ?4 o/ ]. f( A, y% Y* M+ Q
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ) W9 ?% Y! E% r
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
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are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," t2 u% c. H& a; D; {
Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
y* {, g2 U. m" }earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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$ K5 R' J" N( v+ `/ Q ^Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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; k% K, e, A5 s3 a7 p) f8 C6 eHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
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& {1 b' z9 ^+ LIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
) C: U5 Q) Z" y% O f" h! j( O3 Wbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He . V) I7 E2 _# \+ Y- G9 h; u
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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3 c5 C8 \4 ?* @: @4 b% I# G, PSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live ; o& |2 @( I4 Q- p) `' W* }1 \
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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: t4 z7 K F- Q) c/ u5 W"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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