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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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8 o/ x7 }/ K( l& ]Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body
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* s9 e b t& p" i/ SBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 1 P0 s7 M6 X8 ? H' l2 b
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET I j+ d2 u- Q$ F" J
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
2 Z' K/ x) r( l6 Y3 Qimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 9 X9 Z! s& a I
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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/ u5 Q: r2 |4 j9 F& D; VPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
7 E# A) G' R$ x( v8 c5 v3 v! y/ T) _South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
8 X6 {2 h, |( B" x3 ?3 G0 [told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, + K; S% e+ V! ^# ?! F
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 " u4 | S3 @5 \5 u/ G# ~
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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# y4 u: S" U* f5 X$ U5 K% NAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
5 o( Q6 z7 W* ~! @! X6 ]1 w0 O1 M& j6 jyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
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Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
- l+ v; `6 L/ r0 I5 Vthat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
8 a0 F; C: ?) u- M; ^0 Iled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had 5 S7 V( H- a# n9 |- E0 M6 |' g
abused and impregnated.
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 5 _3 G* h; W; h* F1 S6 p6 u O
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then + v$ P. [8 c- D# `
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
; s! v h* N; a% o/ U1 o5 [her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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+ x. R2 W( Z0 _# Z) l, jHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led 6 h9 v7 x' b: u0 R* \
him from the court.
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& u! m3 v _0 G$ fChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood 0 M9 R& u L2 Z/ j( W
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.! u1 s, F) A, ^ j/ A
2 t. `6 {# A& G, I"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
$ E! i8 x9 S; G% Z7 wdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A ( H/ x/ h5 k; \8 z4 T
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully 4 b! Y+ k- o8 ^& b
recovering are slim."
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% |! x8 x" w$ E4 N/ t) _Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.. J1 D7 t0 k' s( L9 ?7 h. y3 Z
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in & U, x7 E7 `" x4 g1 P
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
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* u( Q/ { j; {3 a"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha 8 q* y9 [* D) I0 k5 `8 F6 u% I& C
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR," $ T% w* k% g" g3 W; B
Hopkins testified.
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2 }* Q2 H: b) ^. p, OHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
/ N& c2 ? f, Uearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 8 l! M) r+ g) M+ U# y
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
% _( f( y2 s1 f7 ^8 x0 T* QFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.! ]) w( ^7 A" l, ]
2 }4 ?, `! N- I. k- Y8 q- g7 AHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
" C0 A t; K, r1 `orders 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
1 u, q% y) Q, }6 c# ~7 Y, tbegan preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
1 v% {5 t) K; S2 M- W: M6 }developed 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 2 h# G: ^% i+ ~# v
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who / O, c9 o. B }4 x1 N1 u
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"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to . z/ Y4 c( T. }; e
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