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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 body6 g9 M" b# |8 d. `0 M
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
# @+ \/ L2 |, ~% oPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
& {: \8 |+ r) ]9 r4 I9 cMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while ) n4 S" {: I5 t, y% e K" t' i3 A
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
) [, G7 T9 J0 ~1 O. e9 v( wwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
- R) _9 ~4 |! r0 m v) E' E2 mSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 6 w8 K3 K( e1 o* v ]2 z9 s9 j
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
- P; N( `0 u, }; P7 K+ Fisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
0 _( }/ S& P" ~1 ?' d6 aDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.7 _% K D0 B1 t$ S
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
& \) `3 U% t: f1 H. q, q5 Fyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
. B0 @ H* p/ wof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.% w5 v: ]" o$ W% r0 ~0 U
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
) Q+ Q5 Q* C2 \7 _$ l5 H' Z. Z |that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were , C4 ]# ~: } ]* a
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had ; Y8 a; c h) L; V# L- f5 p
abused and impregnated.
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( [4 j. U# `* A) EInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 * ~4 H' z; k* V) I2 B
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then & K6 @* L8 W* a$ }
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with , J5 L g5 J, _0 U" y
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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5 h( v% h: M1 d% y2 l& H; m7 \7 SHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
+ F8 D% v; k) T8 S+ ?him from the court.
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood H+ y& |* M% L+ R6 t, l
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.4 t% o4 N& O) P; f
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very + j. E: v1 o2 Z" ^. o
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A 4 n2 Z/ C3 K9 K/ u7 P. A
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
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5 y) ?6 I0 L; {" GDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.* t1 n; X$ ?+ M
( m3 G6 |+ v% Q# `- r$ Z oHopkins 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
( t1 l5 E P8 v5 L5 G5 \) sare 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
2 L4 r% G2 R* o. P5 @earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 9 E( y# }- k0 G. S( D4 y
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in 9 Z( e; [, Z& Y: Z
Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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) X0 Y* t" b& M4 |He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
, P, y$ B; V4 c# Y/ F+ iorders 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 - w4 P* H8 h9 O
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
) `4 t4 S' [% c+ G/ {& U( Kdeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
$ K8 x4 a/ ]* H( [" ^% C3 iprophet who could see the future.% x0 q, }* l9 I
5 K! f+ P1 d. M* m p7 [" ^Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
* j7 f* X- |5 \! ewith 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 Z: S, _) C G1 d0 {& j2 L
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