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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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& f$ S7 @- @4 @# zBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
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MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ! e5 t# ^" y2 w: T& @
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 9 O- N" w, Z! r( K$ E4 L
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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! e- }0 _4 p; p T: Q% g0 y; WPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the - m( d9 ~4 U& D& ?' R' |. m3 U
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 2 G9 _% U: a+ k7 q5 b, ~
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, . q, @0 }, Z. K* n: t) w
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.% f+ T2 M* P- V3 w2 m) t+ m! S% }7 L
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-; J$ Z8 B. N3 B/ w6 `. h
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
5 v- I4 g) n# k- xthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were . H1 V# o. e3 R& {
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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- C) O1 e4 e+ X/ AInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
4 F5 E" G5 `0 d7 C0 `after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
/ x/ I7 V9 ?; T( J) n7 pstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with 9 Q* n2 I2 k2 F# Z. r0 G8 A
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 ' p) U/ A( M6 |
him from the court.* y/ u4 w0 k! Q( k1 x
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
: g( g6 L: u+ z! bdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A " P3 s+ e; n+ V$ y1 f( y
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully 1 B( s( k, b9 c$ }7 J9 M- O
recovering are slim.", g# D* `4 F) V, M4 [
# p, G, S; Y4 \5 ~Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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& U" H3 W- B; t) a% RHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.! B" S( l- A+ I2 x" l: ^
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha ! l1 v, p6 Y/ L* b" y7 W
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," 6 [' t+ i" t/ Y ~0 q
Hopkins testified.
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/ [" a: D! o5 \" ?. {4 W S4 v; VHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
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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
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
8 P# X4 j- d$ ?4 |# }0 N+ Gbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
K6 _' Y `/ Y! tdeveloped 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 4 z7 O6 N7 s2 }% V( T, f% V
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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- A: ^9 p' x9 t) ^1 ^2 t"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to / v) R* C, _7 i8 J( ?" `9 ~/ ~+ q7 e
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