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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸1 k- V' t* B9 I; D* S6 m3 J
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body v3 ]( L T6 c# r) L
/ O" j0 M, x2 K, ^By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
6 f s- p e- @! X, e# s% U+ G* kPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
. N7 a$ m* L9 s6 x8 MMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
+ d+ |5 G5 y% p$ \# l* Aimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
6 O4 g6 D( t+ F# c, g$ ?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
% x2 I: S- b0 J% q: R( fSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor + Z) s6 d, F# D4 M8 d( a: g |# F
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, 1 }% I8 F* ~# x) S" ?
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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# f$ A: ]( J( f: x) ^"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant $ i9 [6 {7 o+ }. [) h1 t: t9 Q
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
1 s9 v8 t# ?! s5 jyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse ) U- B& [: l7 q+ K- Z
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.; }# x2 p2 G7 r- I& {. @ v# @
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges ! q& ^# d5 I ~2 r$ e8 p9 G# i
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 3 |9 z0 O1 ^4 S0 t
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had " v V9 [. g, u6 @! V! }" B/ Q
abused and impregnated.
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: Q. h+ D3 L: _! g! ~Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 : d3 L& O& l0 C( o9 d6 r \
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
4 P, _! B o( h+ V7 _stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
! ^6 l% P w: G/ i' L" ^her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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, g/ g5 m2 \$ u5 A' V" Z8 k+ mHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led . E7 N! B( Y' G6 I) H
him from the court.: [) P7 I$ Y7 y: G8 ]% L3 y
1 h8 A7 N# O0 w* T* X UChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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1 D' p, v1 a6 p/ n* F! ^, ~8 c) ^( Z"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
7 }; G+ K r# `6 h, Y; R# Mdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A ; q% P/ c u4 D- ]; c4 J4 o
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully " H' M% g) `8 G" |9 y! L5 @
recovering are slim."
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/ ]: M5 ?1 B1 o# qDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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4 b1 N0 N" Z& iHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ! `7 z0 G8 ?+ z# B' T4 [
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha , o- O) G. C, X, E/ I* `2 n/ _4 x- a
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," # N- T$ F/ |, M& R. N2 K" f
Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and 8 v% f h- @) G T
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.& c$ q+ k" S3 b7 j5 A
1 _0 F* x$ V3 N# P2 @He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got " X" O6 [! S6 N4 a# ~# q- A& J b
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 . U3 l4 L1 F1 ~& ]
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
- F5 U+ F4 B/ q9 |3 bdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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% \* f; G2 u. o) Q3 H; P3 ~( OSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live 3 J& w5 }! m6 e; X. l* j
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to 7 z2 w" M0 T: i) G& r0 |6 g @8 s
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