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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸
' [. N9 Q1 P7 t' f. \$ Jhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100 ... /us_body_in_freezer
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body$ O+ }& ^9 k) d, W2 x6 p, U& u
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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
3 G0 e( s- W4 q' sPress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
+ T; n6 e9 _# S$ g% t6 mMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
) F9 X- l) q* w/ K$ _* m+ L! Wimpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
: w; G" L6 f5 I! xwife 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, ( [- E4 C2 f% H0 g& l
isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.9 g$ |+ q7 b4 Q9 l6 ]3 j2 r$ l
* O/ {& K0 X$ ^3 ~9 }8 f8 e9 L2 l* i"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant 8 p& K: I9 Y3 s& w! I
District Attorney Jill Phillips.7 B% r1 _8 V+ b# s" D9 Y6 N
Q5 r! O6 d) k# C$ g HAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
$ f% W4 h% n9 |" K" R. T3 Dyear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse / C+ H9 c* ?! w4 e# r$ ?8 a9 S
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 \/ }. r* f: a) u
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were + t+ k V3 s! h
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had J9 J" @1 i; Z. {" a# {, Q
abused and impregnated.
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# O' O) O8 `- n) l8 cInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004 1 k0 n* C: k! j" K, T, i, ^: n
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then - e# v1 y2 R- s: j Y
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with 1 q" I, e9 `! c S
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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3 U/ a4 @" R, N$ U& t* HHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led % h# Q5 ~/ Q; h$ J+ k
him from the court.& H( L6 o! i: Q: _ z3 F$ Z& D1 @) p
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood * d) H( f8 q2 ?, ?
in front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.
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6 N" U" I4 W) [: M"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very " |4 I2 {, h6 t0 x. Y
disturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A " n( \2 n4 S: W( l4 h. \1 j4 g0 I
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully 5 [8 f- F2 G$ W
recovering are slim."
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0 _( X g# Y @5 D/ t5 t5 JDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.' n8 n% r' L" j) d0 d- `& X# |
0 P2 z# b3 S/ P: \& Q- r9 GHopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
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"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha . y; _& _5 Z: N9 x+ s7 Q3 x2 A T/ N
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
: ^; Q5 [; k8 E5 t0 s9 u hHopkins testified.9 d1 a. x( @/ T) s
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
. A, g7 L! o/ q7 Y1 gearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 1 M/ X" [" _; d$ S$ P1 o
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
& h7 _" t0 S+ V2 P5 ]9 T' KFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.4 V. v% n3 O* h0 ^' [$ `2 ~
& u* w( p2 `1 zHe testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got ; ~0 I- K# n5 V/ T6 {/ P+ {! H
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.- L1 f* p" _4 B( j5 H' x9 _
( t2 a y7 ?- R) m/ ]2 n' sIt was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and . e) c0 ^2 q. n$ M
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
: B' Y! G' w7 _$ N& d9 E" ddeveloped a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
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0 j3 o" y) }. m8 i' NSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
: G9 t% g$ W h# Vwith 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 r$ w+ {6 P, o& a+ S9 w
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