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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 body7 @) N+ U7 b/ Y3 u$ u
% P" R$ U' z: M7 k/ DBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
. S7 j% f5 l) H; P: N8 ^) e7 U2 YPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
# [. G, N! R1 o0 L2 E$ z$ s/ YMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
8 _+ B, L- P: ]; r% T* Ximpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
7 m+ D9 d- j2 g& `0 ^: v- W' dwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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: L0 R9 S- `: ]5 B! O+ {People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the , K+ Q- P% M1 Y1 C
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
+ ~3 y/ W! T( w, Ltold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, ( q7 [' a" J+ u; J) S
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant ( E& w' B* n# j' e3 G( U- @
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-; y6 S$ ]& i$ o' m- J
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse v }1 p9 N6 o1 U
of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.6 g1 L4 u$ E1 c- _; P
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges 1 k7 p( s3 i% @, }4 [
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
- d) y/ s* ?$ P8 S Z6 ~led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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/ \( x. B: ]/ L t. F8 r6 kInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
" q i: [& r6 y; Tafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
$ s- q" Z6 Y. `) M. @ e* B' tstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
. p- c5 L$ D! G& U% }her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous + t2 p2 F1 C& l0 j7 O3 v* a/ h
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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# q" j% p7 M5 U- x. W6 oChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
1 Q- d5 j" E4 H4 i. b3 r3 F# Xdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A % d; @5 J6 e5 \
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
& j" d! V2 v: E7 G8 C; H% [recovering are slim."
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Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.6 n+ m7 b+ n' H2 @/ t8 L
7 N& P+ `( p6 q+ Z4 RHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in z4 h- m( t# o5 T
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her 6 z$ w6 f) y- w# G0 X
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.5 c2 M' s& d# n7 P) J# J2 w
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha ) d9 @; N& F7 c, I* X0 R6 W% o6 T
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," : L) F2 S/ R; O
Hopkins testified.
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6 X! B; m7 d) J3 r1 Y6 FHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and ; d- y9 s0 \9 L4 C
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
! y. _! k5 {# N) R7 gMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
5 c/ G# @9 W3 S8 ?1 q. u0 M3 XFort 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
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& w$ _- i; g8 M6 e. x/ ^8 K0 BIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and 5 k$ P( ]) H X
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He * _% j! h1 E2 L( I9 C
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
3 d9 o, g( q# d3 z1 Y) Rprophet who could see the future., ? ?: p& t; q/ p1 K5 |% t. C
% @) s: L! E3 s/ ]% \& oSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live * p) b! S& n) V& d( v& t7 a
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who . u. |8 R) J" i+ F( Y* H! F8 H
commended the jury.2 p5 v. k' E# F
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to # z' O/ _2 j' ^! s8 s$ [* H
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