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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸; w# ]! C0 y0 Q0 d4 M8 {6 W) y
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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7 }- l1 ^" c3 A9 {8 \: q- H- JBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 5 c5 W6 E, ]5 y6 _! |, N& `2 C
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
8 }- V5 N1 L) {& `# \MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while : ~( b) _6 {- D/ k6 u* ^4 C
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his ; p5 J& V9 H- |# ~
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the # x% L {$ I8 q1 J
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
% S7 v* t% C3 C! V) _told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, / z4 x, ?6 @2 D9 P) L
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
( V( w: t1 {1 X( a7 m1 B9 }District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-5 x' P. t/ X- b: I
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
" r8 r2 Z( Y3 t9 tof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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8 r; C' k. l% hHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
. s8 ?% Q% T" J4 ithat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were $ ~" B p6 I; ]; j% m/ W% h
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had ) G7 x8 `$ ~5 |: }1 t
abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 " ` C/ A7 S; M
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
+ G: r$ Z1 f5 @- Y! C- a% O' z8 ]stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with & {! M9 n/ J" p4 Y* s) P- r2 D( T
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous : p( _, Y8 C( h2 U4 B* s% @; q
relationship.* s" q0 h- t, v8 R4 g- O1 ^% ?
8 k3 t2 \# R s" `( r" dHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
! @0 ^7 _0 @' ?$ h7 ?! W) i+ bhim from the court.
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
5 ^& G0 G" ~% Hin 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
2 o5 m* d! _1 t( _1 }/ @1 S3 Udisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A & w) C+ r* Z: U% e1 M& i
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
9 D8 B. f- `, `$ s3 d& b3 Hrecovering are slim."
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Defense 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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8 ]- q3 D g9 k1 deight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
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2 n: w0 x) S( x% S6 F"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
" t( z7 @0 e4 H# Z; ]- g1 lare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," $ _0 w$ r7 ~. T$ z" F, H; _; Z
Hopkins testified." X$ s( T% R0 s& z" ?
3 Z& |4 P; K4 }5 ?6 K, wHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
" u+ S* O+ K( D' i6 V6 t0 Yearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
. e& @1 b1 W0 u5 n3 gMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
7 J' B8 _! _' I8 LFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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) P- c8 L# m& C- p' y, Q% S9 K+ B$ RHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got . @, Z8 O l" t; T m
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.9 l2 B ?1 k) v6 d
. t/ z& x1 V9 }; ~' SIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
/ n" q! J9 }% M% Jbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He ; x& l1 d) e+ y6 G- h* V5 N
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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3 [1 J9 G |) e2 P6 ^2 `Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 6 q8 A4 _ a: z* M
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who % j; n2 } z! ]+ X" n) N; @- P
commended the jury.
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to ) w* v6 o4 q: l% f5 l$ z3 j
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