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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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" p$ Z% f n! I5 B8 b' @& ^8 XPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated % Y, a, o/ M7 p( l* b5 {! M: M! ]
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET) x' Y) b/ f( p/ A" b
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while $ W& N% @, X& C5 Z
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 4 \; Z) L: w; b, k* G1 {& k* I
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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5 v$ i& T/ S! H* G; nPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the , Y6 ]" m" B8 @! r+ r r9 H
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 3 e% @ V6 Z) y8 u( ?
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
* i4 L6 `( O; o; iisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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. Q0 p/ ^% P0 U# h5 V) _, E+ l"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 4 G" F5 a1 U* l& p/ ^8 w
District Attorney Jill Phillips.. A' S8 K/ Q8 C6 _+ P" F
7 z$ k7 g5 k0 ]& E0 }" kAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-' m M6 Q' r% w2 N
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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v+ ?5 @. e0 r+ t/ _% nHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges ! g0 Q" w/ k- t& D# J# C4 Y" r
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 1 _1 ?# T; L) u) b$ M
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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+ T7 S9 F8 p$ p3 W: H" l/ Y0 f( WInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
. A1 L0 k& m; J- Wafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then I G& U" {/ f" a5 Z
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
1 q* y9 O. i, v+ W3 Dher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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9 ?9 b2 C0 U' h; [Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led . e3 @- t L: D& m, l' U( Q
him from the court.% }7 A3 f8 H) |" U1 \% j& H( O
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood - U. [5 W, _1 H+ Q" `# V6 X0 b
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.4 n: z A8 L% K$ |3 y4 y/ T0 c2 d
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
' B- [8 z) i+ q- z' W, Qdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
$ Y) s# v2 W. N' k8 u s: unumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.2 }- \, c6 z7 N7 Q5 m, g, a2 j
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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. `" j& c2 O4 \6 K, Y$ P+ a. z
. R, H+ ~& h" p, N+ E1 b; O6 O"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
4 V& }1 V7 L0 i% Gare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
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9 h" i/ y/ J, T: mHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and 0 |7 S0 f: p4 Q5 N- R# ]/ i, o6 j3 U
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 9 i/ \$ g% i9 {3 H* ?5 H
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
) x5 S$ Z% @) L& c2 H. c$ q$ ZFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got 6 w: t. a; d# n* F9 V
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.5 l" t* J& V# n% o7 b0 C$ R3 e
7 E& K4 v: W/ {5 m6 ~8 SIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and . G, x' d3 y; U7 w! W1 d
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
$ }# G8 {/ }! R/ R6 K4 h3 J4 Adeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
* o& U4 A6 J5 m+ ]+ mprophet who could see the future.
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( N; |. O8 m$ }0 ^" D- Y2 f9 qSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live % D j+ Z8 G1 E# K* T. s) U5 N0 B6 b
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who & i+ e) p: \: n0 \4 H# e( X
commended 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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