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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸/ a: G: T3 C7 q
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8 l' b# Q6 @3 S: u8 q) ePreacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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8 } O3 w$ W& g& W, [7 |' gBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
L, M& Y H% d& MPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
! }( d$ Z7 e& d9 s0 AMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 9 u6 n9 r5 S1 D* E2 g5 s
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his ( p& ~; _- l$ Z8 u7 ^* G7 ~
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the 1 V i* O! M1 N) K
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor , x" h0 }, u3 L, `+ e/ G
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
. n$ s& k( W1 }: y/ nisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.8 P/ c( ]/ d3 v( h
7 A$ e, g. U+ J9 O- {& d"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
& m, S1 d% G& V" K$ e mDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.
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1 O( i+ H& Y. ~2 s- m$ \6 f) dAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
0 F# K+ o$ f) P. a' Kyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
+ q; C: l/ P3 B6 X$ @+ Eof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
8 y6 z- v7 B7 Wthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
% E, {. ^1 H, _8 U3 v+ P2 I: _led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
: b8 b1 x6 u& i; s! Xabused and impregnated." [5 P: Q: c6 p, m2 V* S9 ] E
( E( A% I) e; G: E @Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 ( N3 u( l u$ j9 w W L8 u6 W, i
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
W8 Q2 \6 N0 O7 @& c1 Ustuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with ; m$ O( p0 k4 {) |0 d
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous : _& z- g. _ B0 V' E0 [+ O
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
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: @+ Z/ J$ ]. C7 H; z8 `Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 0 w/ H. R! ^) _ @' y% \# z
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very ) { S# Z8 n( P* f) f) f
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
3 i9 z- ]" _. H. E: _number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully
/ y: w h; O3 Y: i8 }, \: Arecovering are slim."4 i3 k. q5 w- A# F8 l! I
2 f4 a) p# a1 x: ADefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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+ o# `4 p# T! l& v' meight 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- f H: [; S% `4 h2 j$ j* Vare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
8 s' B8 N1 {% E% bHopkins testified.. J7 S$ w( A" i: ]+ r. N3 @
7 d. l2 ^' W9 F# M0 [. n( [7 d% MHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and ; |, i: e( A. }$ r0 e
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
% D6 m. v" X% H0 ~1 yMobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
5 e, l+ G9 F; y% B; EFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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( P2 o, D$ ]2 }6 X7 L0 f& J% KHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
$ r! O4 z* E' w( s: g1 Corders 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
2 H) V& l+ H5 k! X7 ybegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
; Z2 i* {: \! Ldeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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