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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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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
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MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ; D/ ~6 q: L) r0 @! ~
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,
" e8 Z5 B- b+ ]' W* C) \isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them." Q# F7 [& [( P
9 i$ N3 v8 C+ |# ?"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 7 A( o6 N+ B* d% F
District Attorney Jill Phillips.8 ]5 l& n8 R8 b9 N; D: ~
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-# U* S! }) a1 d% h% J& b \
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse , {! s0 a5 ?7 P5 _# j; W
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.+ o2 [* F+ T5 V
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 7 J$ X i: w( N+ `! E( Q' m/ m5 `
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
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abused and impregnated.$ H4 s/ T' f1 o* C3 a. A5 t
% y3 m$ K: l2 B8 I: I. ]9 d8 sInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 ( O1 a4 s- d, U, x3 q9 ], c
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
( `1 H+ C# K) N$ V. K+ Lstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
$ h% Q2 M& I! T* @- `' f; E2 hher, 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 , `# a# a0 m, I6 M8 I" S3 a
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read./ J* l6 C M5 W: m( j
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very 5 o# }7 k( y4 y" o4 _
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A & Y$ u, Z/ T' g8 _# ^' k) b6 j
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully / d4 |- x5 N3 X6 p# z. Q
recovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.* m/ E% |" f/ m9 i& T5 _/ h
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in 9 x; K: U: c9 v9 S
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her / X2 I* b; r$ K" i* x g* Z& U" g( V
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.1 Q) p. D r% n* k& k+ C
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
E, `& F+ H" | oare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," 3 F% v; g1 u' q8 i% B/ S: w) S- y
Hopkins testified.& R$ b9 Y w5 k- l
: N! y& k! O; d3 n# p; f8 \Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
& t* i# a* q2 rearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
5 C+ q, s# s l, a1 fMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
) R$ d3 R0 d: I; q! E# T9 E4 SFort 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
+ ~7 ?2 I, P" x S) Iorders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.' W4 U4 a+ c# L3 q7 X* C
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and ' ~* B: Y# b3 g/ X, a. M
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He : a" S" i! { ~4 [4 a" d& @$ d
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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! s# d7 P1 \7 a/ b4 P8 e) ^/ FSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 6 g5 D8 b3 r1 _& N% F
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who 4 G% w, m$ |- O7 _( H$ Y" W+ G) b
commended the jury.6 E' ]1 l; W! D" ~, W( s
* h# T/ h$ m. f+ K/ I: D5 ["They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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