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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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. k3 T- v0 a0 v% Q ]: xBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
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7 r9 B. }6 J+ W/ S3 PMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while : h: F) E% s0 H# J8 I6 ?
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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! D: b( G/ x( m% jtold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, 7 W ]( Q( S" E+ }, `" C
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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8 c3 ?7 B# o9 [5 e4 O$ t"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant P w2 ~$ [! ?& R2 t) E$ d8 j
District Attorney Jill Phillips.- v- M& t, F$ [
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
- B. b1 _( _; ^" Jyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
: A K1 W t, H: _of a child between the ages of 12 and 16." N1 E+ D' u2 b
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges : v( ]: x k3 b5 N, Y" g& w' M
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 8 n5 A% O! b9 y9 h/ B* _4 F
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
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stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with ( y3 b- a2 P0 W' z
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous , E; ^; l# w* L- W+ f1 X/ D2 x
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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
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( O% d# S( G5 [) W"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
+ s! |& h8 G( L( t% Z% @" j5 [- ydisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A * n- U. F2 S d* \8 \2 j! d. }
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.3 m& _5 y5 W! f! y1 D
- k, Z# E; c9 H/ s6 dHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
r2 J) A- d. A3 V0 O3 f2004 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 $ ]+ J ?' [/ c; } C
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," & c7 Z) V# G- d+ e. }/ S
Hopkins testified.
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q" }* y6 W8 y" z7 UHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
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Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
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+ a a: W8 C1 jHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got 9 h; ]8 o9 ^: x/ A
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.- c8 e3 x1 N/ Z6 G$ L* T; x3 R7 O9 v
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and . a( Z' U- _' B6 w4 x9 r( }
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
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prophet who could see the future.' P3 w6 V$ N$ E& Z, X1 o
1 X7 G) l+ n" D9 U# m$ OSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live - f* w( j3 X; F5 Z. `
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
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