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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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# R2 C, m5 }- q/ ?: ZBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
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MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ( K) y) e9 p& L$ f) E
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 2 E; ^$ b5 L0 p b: _
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.9 h. w& q2 |8 L$ O0 W
6 w) r4 B% ]6 V ?$ M8 u+ ]( W5 cPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the 4 R* n+ h$ @. H
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
+ v, @8 k! [0 c9 A/ g# ~4 W' itold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, 8 @1 N' j( U5 ~: E6 j
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.1 j2 c5 i; _4 x0 j3 j4 Z6 e5 P
* r! q5 y0 ]4 w" {0 A2 x"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 7 ?8 F0 M! n- f8 _9 P
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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3 r; T6 H S$ A! w; D& F$ Z4 ZAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
0 R S4 O* b0 F6 ]5 v" w4 `2 z* l yyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse 7 }6 t4 K" [: h2 x- T: G
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.4 Y8 c- Y' ^8 ~/ e7 d0 Y
& a7 s8 g2 Z7 L* y# Z, Y C UHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges " I+ B3 e% X _" Q8 r- Y* A
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were ( S& _( `* m6 R
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had 6 I/ ~1 v4 m) X: M& h8 W- l
abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
) m& I; [9 N0 s! D6 T% ]5 K; gafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
$ [) y" Z3 [) A( C- ]stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
5 t. A1 ?% F6 z' w w) Hher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
+ l3 c* D& Y9 e- i; trelationship.
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9 t6 ?1 `( V8 n* FHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led ; b, p2 s3 r! A, L7 }
him from the court.% D q! D+ i* S. W Y
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
$ V Y$ u( ^. {% ain front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.
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' L# H, `7 s1 H% `6 S0 a"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
8 S- F+ d9 H" B% z( rdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
: I% x" f3 p9 s9 {7 I* R0 |! U- H) tnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully - l% Y! t4 O" S( @) @
recovering are slim."$ Z" x! t- p! p ^5 Q/ n
+ U, L& t- H( F0 L* S0 z6 o& t/ wDefense attorneys left court without answering questions., E& \% a6 i# E5 q$ ]2 y% Y( F2 o6 O
, A7 w; j" L7 I0 X7 f5 [Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
8 f, F4 D! j, [3 ?6 c @* }2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
, G7 c2 v7 c* m. ?+ Deight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
5 R2 {5 L- o2 g2 Zare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
$ Q% j3 U. _. i+ u) |6 Y# ~Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and / u0 S8 K5 r2 c3 y$ @
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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$ \. t+ ^: x& g3 tFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.9 A. x* r; W( p$ s% k4 O" ]
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got " Y. u) n2 e; }' [; g* x
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
* C) T) q; B% f6 Ibegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 2 E2 m Q8 s2 \% f
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
2 H2 F ^; ^. u- t9 o3 Iprophet who could see the future.
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; ~$ B ~7 ~( h: q) ^+ _. ?Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
: G, c1 e* X0 Xwith in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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S o/ J% O, N; T X"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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