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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 body
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated 6 F3 a- \5 B4 c# _4 F* V' s
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET% o% n) @9 L% m7 c) H' g
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 2 Q) U5 _7 e, O& K. C
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
5 P! I0 y* o$ a( _' E6 K& vwife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
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told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
) L8 Z8 {9 @" H3 E& h& [; Gisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 3 I* O& v4 U2 {+ ~4 T
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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After deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-) p7 [4 p3 W0 R& b- |
year-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
1 o4 y$ ]( v0 Q; ]5 Vof a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
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% W8 x( N2 R6 h( q" THopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
" P o1 \7 H5 M! _9 u: Ethat he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were 8 E7 e% X4 c/ H+ r/ C6 w+ e
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
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Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 ! i5 ?5 Y' z1 J
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
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her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous - C0 I5 H# p$ ~5 @
relationship.
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6 g; A! Y- v' v: ~9 z; LChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood ( Z# I* {. ~1 h' H' n& O: d
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.6 o# m% A3 [1 O: U
. P, W% a& Y' p2 K/ p" b7 U"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very 4 |" e4 C- a$ c! @/ h& H5 v
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A
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recovering are slim."
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2 v# D1 x& O; u0 dDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.: l4 t/ Q4 \: R1 J& S. m5 Y
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in 4 F/ t7 A* W7 ^4 E1 x% G
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her ]6 |- w7 K3 Y! b$ O( W0 m
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.# k) A# Q7 k8 ^/ h& q, s1 N
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
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Hopkins testified." v- t4 B% T) r( g/ c& Q
6 l8 a0 z- v' s& N& n, sHopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
( v: c6 {; G8 s& hearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 9 N5 d* q/ g% i8 T# F% o
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in " V% O7 I% W* W0 `6 `
Fort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.# {5 l! N/ o+ p' e1 }" Q+ `7 L
3 a' |/ V# c: m2 e9 ZHe 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 ) n6 b: Y& f# ?% p* W
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
" a, U5 `! L, n" b4 f! \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 & m- L! l; ~: e
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who
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3 p" u p8 S9 m2 m, h3 N"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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