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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸) E$ w0 e8 }8 @1 K
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body0 [7 |( u! @$ ~5 \: R
" a3 j" z' i) E7 d- \- vBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
" ~/ L/ u" C" x. y" D) k7 F& hPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
$ S6 X) Q% l4 ]& Y6 N2 {MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
/ Z L( p, E+ `1 {/ c) ^impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
" Z) }" }5 l j% U! l- vwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.4 f) b, r3 G! v" w8 C; j7 C
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the 1 N5 A$ y2 f$ j6 H! F7 x
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 6 D6 q- i2 O1 f& x3 F6 M
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, $ Z2 K% H* }0 N1 \; [$ W8 a
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.) f; C- E A, n2 o3 W, K+ D1 E' K7 N
0 ^7 x) L1 U1 Z"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
5 L; Y+ X/ M( u+ }) J/ mDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.# J6 W- M+ x6 Z/ H5 N; L
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
* I# U0 F; {3 t7 \9 Pyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
, E! p$ K1 p; S4 ^; E/ b2 gof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 6 N4 p1 N3 T& r! \$ r3 p3 d
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 4 S" L$ [9 _ l; T9 F/ v) u
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
5 C. _. p8 t5 R* b! Eabused and impregnated.
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3 A: z' g+ B3 ~Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 4 Q6 a% {* F; b5 w/ r: V9 N' @- _, p e
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then - B# Q/ c9 I1 Y: z! ^% X7 i
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with , |, N6 T1 W4 T" s
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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" e! V }' x, z, B; Q$ _Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
8 |: x7 |( l D, Ihim from the court.
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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
( `# d# h2 u* [; N9 I" g1 Z ~disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A 2 Q" R- K8 m* w3 ?8 M4 L+ `$ B
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
3 a5 R' K6 f. N `6 qrecovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.- D$ E' t" G6 k! S8 V4 J6 C2 j3 G
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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eight 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 e* {( u3 G R( B8 a, z
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
; T# ~: }2 p$ e$ P. U" Tearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 8 X- d3 H8 X9 Z+ S: p3 x
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
& G% K' E- Z9 b! S3 i- I* JFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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- d7 S5 _. ^( w! W' R" KHe 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
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developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a # C4 `5 h/ H$ m( r- d
prophet who could see the future.% K" n2 ?2 i7 V7 C* g
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
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5 y3 n4 E; x6 K J# ocommended the jury.
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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