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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸) ?) t- h8 t! _" G6 m2 A
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body+ F- Q4 @' @4 }. e5 w
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 4 m b3 d3 T' G+ m, z
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET G0 S/ j3 m9 ^7 m9 x' A: l
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
* E& C! u1 }6 i4 E7 _impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
M( m: a7 R: C7 dwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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+ `2 Y0 k+ W( F0 L% o* p8 c$ dPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the . y; T$ T6 G; ]" m- w g* p& t
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor 4 O- n$ I8 i1 r3 R+ E2 z
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, , W* n0 U( N7 V& l
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.$ k) G' D u9 D) U9 U# g
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant
+ S1 q% G2 z9 @& bDistrict Attorney Jill Phillips.# i! ~0 f, p+ X! Z" `0 F
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-% F; h) d1 t7 w+ p3 t* y$ V. t
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse ) A {0 f: |; u+ X
of 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 5 w6 Z; ~" H3 q% _+ I; X( O; b# g
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
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abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
% h7 u$ ] p0 I6 ^- {' S% }8 _after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
# P" i* u9 e& d- q; Istuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
$ O' e' }7 n4 l0 iher, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous ' s" Y3 s! H$ A' c: n' z _& V
relationship.
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0 a6 ^. o. @9 NHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led
* M* `" a6 `. Qhim from the court.; s: }: w5 v: H$ M5 p7 e' [7 m
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood + t. D; `' \" U
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read. _1 T% b2 N# c2 ^ n
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
$ V& a$ ~3 F: j. [2 `disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
- H4 U: N3 K1 z: o7 {- ]: rnumber of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully : X- {& U' ^' q% w/ F
recovering are slim."& N8 k, b& ~4 g4 I( J
9 K2 E0 A' `! p" S- L, ADefense attorneys left court without answering questions.9 E) i0 h/ M4 u9 Y0 \
# J; {4 w" @8 R4 K. M$ bHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in ) W; L' E3 P6 C$ o0 x2 b# ~
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
% I7 r6 e( Q, h8 c4 W# K6 oeight children, an month-old infant, beside her.- r' t- q4 ?3 a& {
+ N2 P) F7 d; `8 l. G. f2 ~"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
# H* o% f* |0 bare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," 5 m: l6 a- S, }9 T C' m! C) ]' x+ J' I
Hopkins testified.
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and " \: [4 F" n% @
earned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 8 t* V4 Z# G" I' e& ^
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
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% Q6 [9 n2 k9 A- L) k" bHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
) ?1 [3 S3 L6 [7 ?7 r3 norders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.
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' M/ ~5 v! l7 M# S* |: jIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and % T2 p+ d8 \& m) ~# m; i: B! ?0 m
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
0 L- Z" _& f; W7 odeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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( N3 _% d$ T% ? xSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
4 @! U$ I/ _/ ~5 b$ D9 `9 q3 |with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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8 |0 ^, D* \1 z, f& _/ }"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to ! X3 o/ p5 W6 A6 d8 D
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