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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸- Q3 f3 O$ g/ A' [* D5 r
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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6 W3 b$ ?! s& t3 rBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
) C' Z( L" n, F- A3 K2 G' cPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
$ h! A. `5 @6 L/ v) |6 ?' ^MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 9 e: T# [: s6 x! M9 w& @. y, M3 T
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 5 M2 l6 F" I( H
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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& Q7 X, W5 Q6 I1 j4 R; D7 D# F8 HPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the 6 }: v6 l+ Q8 j- S# C( x8 n
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
+ ^2 P+ O+ U8 _; i+ |told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
9 p) q; Z8 m" b; eisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them. N0 ~& N5 L2 j7 }9 s
- f, j) }3 F7 x, C% X0 v9 F2 g"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
5 e, d6 k! K5 ^; zDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.
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5 i* ]$ D, U# y# F2 z' iAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-& d" D% v$ E7 x- A# [5 Z D
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
; O1 x0 O x8 ?of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.1 W5 \5 \ V; Q. V# G- w' y
( k1 W! d! G9 Q, ~7 w1 \. LHopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
+ P* C! N1 O' ]& q3 j) ^that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 0 l4 v2 z! p. ]
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
7 ] \+ r$ n/ H% E/ xabused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 / X6 P1 \; H: R
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then / n+ F3 g( ~4 P" `$ r
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
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Hopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led 2 H; `1 s" a7 j, g- t8 z
him from the court.
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) Q' k# p' a* p2 C0 H% [Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 7 D2 L( f" d- K2 z( Z
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.
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1 N7 h2 W0 Y1 b$ Y7 E9 M, V8 T"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very 8 w* b w& F* w, s$ _
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
5 k4 u) U% |3 p$ k3 [9 Q$ G: q. Nnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully % u, v) Z4 V/ L! i3 W4 i5 C2 S5 L
recovering are slim."7 o( l3 J& l- T8 q
( l2 [ ?7 i6 m VDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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% j0 W; q+ ~8 X( IHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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eight 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
( u; P: q5 w2 fare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
0 n4 h) u, F5 }! B1 j- eHopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
1 [( k0 D8 b. j5 O% ^" i8 D, hearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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) A- Y- O0 j; EHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and V* O2 v- Y4 t7 J# B
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 6 @0 ?, w" i- m7 \$ f5 U
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a 2 x* \' b1 c! \: X' I- L
prophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live : A! l& i6 P# y0 S2 q4 H6 a0 V
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 3 g L) R2 h) W) I% K3 j
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