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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸! g0 r* h$ v" }5 B- [% y+ h, E
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body$ @, L1 m5 ]. @* g, {7 B( j+ ~
% T- z2 P" n5 J' vBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
8 a( V1 ]# A5 V. xPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
: s" O0 o6 E( R8 i. ?* I( mMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
3 l) g: T+ c, p4 ~& }; Fimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 8 k O! k! a2 H% L6 L4 T' J
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years. c9 S' n: g, p- l. x) j9 L
) |7 A9 z0 G9 FPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the * g1 w- H' V: ?8 J6 V' G9 V+ j; [
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor & w5 Q/ J4 Z, }: \* e
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, : A; L% R. U( _" |6 @
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.' B9 }4 X0 x& w. S1 m: M
, ~" {' ~) U9 N! d4 y; \0 S5 F, x7 x! L"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant + j1 ~! N- r! i+ G0 K6 q6 N
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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0 j( t C s- dAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-2 M" ~4 _% X% f) v. x
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
- j! z' C& `0 F- D% k9 kthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
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abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 " I" c% [" s9 O) F. T5 c
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then . J; A* q9 j0 V: i
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
+ s5 E' ]1 L- X& dher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous + P; E: q& Y$ l5 z/ V3 S
relationship.
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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$ g) K# Q2 U9 S; F' {7 I' rChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 0 k! v6 S' w3 x R. z ^
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.8 z1 q6 S9 ^- @
. z$ x4 A5 ^9 L"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
* [ w' P* A2 o P' e( v( Q, t; n( B6 ldisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
# c1 z% E0 x2 h, f8 @ v! c3 vnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
/ C# p2 d! g. Y% g9 h3 F4 ]recovering are slim."& j" [4 u2 w! ]1 q! ?
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.8 @- p/ i: \3 R" K& J9 _2 v2 N- f
8 L# Q9 o" u9 dHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
F* t" t' u' L/ P' s1 F9 d" [ c2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
. q1 n! f; g( ueight children, an month-old infant, beside her.' d7 H* B, k, p/ Y6 ^& G2 v
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
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Hopkins testified.9 W3 j6 z# T3 f. Y- j# S
9 L) ~& ~- m) m) G3 o$ t3 pHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
# T' x) [7 v, Z; Learned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
' n8 {. ]. J5 jMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
- D% Q+ v2 p/ @9 d: x' y* aFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.6 }" `6 O3 T3 t2 @8 Q8 c/ F8 Y
0 a* u# O0 w. O O. o IHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got / b, u* x6 B* {& J M
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 2 A0 ^% r, Z1 W3 B0 z
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 8 r7 _( o% `) |6 x6 { J8 H
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a $ t& n$ s( n1 K2 j+ d" f* y
prophet who could see the future.
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1 A ^1 o9 V# T# U7 c& w" wSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 4 l) X) c2 R' o+ A
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
" U# W9 A: v) ]' Acommended the jury.
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to + _! [, s7 r& ? G
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