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牧师杀妻并冷冻她的尸体，而且乱伦，兽奸8 Q# E5 X2 ^, T5 A7 y
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Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body1 |/ K0 Y( A& p' L7 k7 c
5 a' Y3 |8 e4 wBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated . E9 _% ]+ x, ~
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
9 b" |' _) v9 m. ]MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while 0 C5 z& ]* \% D! s6 L- o) d3 n/ w; l
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his $ g W' {& Y( z
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years. [. c# N/ W' o. |! @
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People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
: w8 U! z R6 H% h( Y/ {# ~. U9 QSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
0 R& x) P% {. g! m# J5 T0 S4 A& ftold jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
8 h2 P# {# H+ y! P. n9 F0 N0 Jisolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.4 I0 G e' A# L- u+ x- r
4 ]. A1 H J# O% m/ r+ O"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant , N& H) v/ ?5 p8 Q0 p
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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+ {6 k/ d# m, Q Q4 H! a( A3 b$ @% E: ZAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-+ F Q& |6 |0 G4 n0 {( L
year-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 1 [5 s8 V) q7 K7 z
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were $ `2 I/ Y+ {$ E D
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 ! X" ~. U& f, }/ z! K. b
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then 9 Q4 F3 G5 u1 t: c" k
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
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1 s5 | T8 s$ y7 h, IHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led ; a& H7 U2 F1 s8 B" ?. H) u
him from the court.
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" t( D, E# a, O; H1 r. @1 aChildren who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
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6 Y3 v& D& V$ K$ g' y7 D9 a) m"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
4 w" [/ L& }! z1 t6 Z8 M; m) rdisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A & H' Z; Y$ ]& [4 f0 P
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully 9 T" e, |* z" m2 v1 q
recovering are slim."
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3 ], V6 z% x! }" t& Y' i) {Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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Hopkins 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
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Hopkins testified.5 e( B) k9 D/ z2 f' z6 b% q2 ^% Y. w
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
, b; d6 ^/ C0 h- c# n5 Hearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near
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2 ?4 z, X2 ?3 F/ FFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.
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He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got & n; B3 R. b$ o6 Y3 L: `: M, y7 x$ b
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.8 p1 l5 V/ i$ X! E: Q
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It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
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% [" u1 Q$ E2 a [7 m9 H6 n* z3 HSix of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live C7 }3 S; [& \ z! \
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary Best, who # t4 x& M; u C' k5 J0 s. R
commended the jury.
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7 D7 Q! @. O" g$ W* I& I"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
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