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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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; |3 T6 p: B# I: A& SPreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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! P% C8 r% O% ~1 M' t2 L% E2 oBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated # W/ Y0 T6 |$ w. J9 c4 S
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
+ e! m8 {5 j4 S! GMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while # S5 z; Y9 Y4 l" G3 G2 j! |
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
/ Y$ ]% s* D/ i- R: E) swife and storing her body in a freezer for years./ M3 y& d9 J& S
7 j( P8 Q6 H: L1 W$ ?People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
& w/ p4 y2 N6 g5 g& ?South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor + s" d' M% S- s. k+ A) ~
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, * Z8 R, [5 W! q# L2 `& h6 \2 t1 P
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.! i8 `8 g: T+ K
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
: Q& @( J; v6 A9 P" BDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.
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* c7 `0 ] f& \. [, zAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
- q; u$ e/ |! T( H" {7 eyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
$ C6 D* j( M4 A9 i, Q8 p8 p+ Wof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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& n. t! V9 W" `+ N) @) ^! B% }/ {Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
9 e( D o3 O5 wthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were & }( l! I% h+ r- o2 A
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
. M4 M% q* K! F4 R& i4 Mabused and impregnated.- s' y: k7 E, h4 j# l- ^+ _4 g- H# l, A. h
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 4 H# I; ~& l' g% o
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then - l$ r" c- @1 g: |4 m
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
0 I* ]- e. D1 _% j* k+ Q0 l/ l. |her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous @5 |% }, l3 g1 Z' T$ W4 B
relationship.8 @5 s4 P) ^* J( z( G
7 P+ o& p6 c, W( ]6 \1 THopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led ; r* N2 p) W, i2 k J2 I
him from the court.) M: Q! N! _0 y* ~/ }, F, N5 r
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood . G4 E: ^9 N( m- f; K3 i! b( w- L
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.3 [* N/ e7 O5 a3 b* e
! z9 U) Z, x- g" T"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
) h; ?/ O9 C$ \4 f. |: f0 Udisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
6 ^4 w2 e, D- u* V, \$ P% | W; znumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully " p6 r* t+ [/ R8 R9 P
recovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.( [1 f* v; o4 k6 ]4 D
! }2 ]. O7 l# XHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in , U% |( d% V- j
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
) B& E* ] M- ^/ B& X+ I! P; Aeight 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 . [: b! O; f) [9 f/ C( o$ O
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," " O5 S$ A- C% M9 I" F( m" U* L' \( F! J
Hopkins testified.4 f4 b% j5 Q* i( |( A; P" T
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and ! J2 |6 r2 ~. U$ A2 h8 O4 C
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
0 M: W* T% M: V" w2 R7 wMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in p9 n/ B9 k: u/ T
Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.6 P. U; q5 Y, M
% X) d, j T6 u: S# S; ^He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
: [+ ?- u4 r2 _( D' porders 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 - v1 j( s( d$ d1 E, a! _* a* m
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 8 T2 n8 ^& ^- n9 d1 K5 S
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a , k& p- r% p5 m. [, l G1 h- E6 g
prophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live - z, {$ M. x; P
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who " d0 E& b" ?9 }# D9 {
commended the jury.4 Z9 M& I4 p5 S, @2 M. [& ~- R
/ h- j, ]2 N7 p+ Y"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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