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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 body8 V$ T. S) ^+ n- |8 i+ B, a
1 }8 e: b. o7 x( }( TBy MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
" }' V) R3 @% I' H- a! h$ q& U3 ePress Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
9 }6 ~0 E8 [' j6 m& nMOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
0 t/ y4 t' ?7 O, C# Y; W4 simpressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his 2 @3 b5 G& {1 B6 l
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
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8 V- X5 R, _0 K) k9 {" V6 KPeople who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
, o9 [1 Y( e7 W0 gSouth sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor : ]& H! F( U: _; k8 |
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children,
5 P6 a3 {/ n5 t, @isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.
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1 U) b- b9 W0 c4 _! h/ ?"He was the supreme commander of his own little army," said Assistant " Y0 A$ P/ q) R7 N
District Attorney Jill Phillips.
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2 ~) z& a$ l# I+ pAfter deliberating for 1 1/2 hours, the jury in Mobile also found 39-
+ I1 A) K8 D2 m- G1 M! y$ Byear-old Anthony Hopkins guilty of rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse
" [2 s. l% ?8 \8 F; Bof 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
; t6 ?! B( u9 O |that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
" [' c/ s5 z4 Nled to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had ) n2 u0 R( z2 w; D; t% D1 N% R! \5 o
abused and impregnated.
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9 i" i/ X. w( G8 kInvestigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
1 B( D+ O' Y4 A# ~1 e5 y/ Cafter she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
6 X6 Y& s: Q9 f- M- j0 gstuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with & s; E3 i6 ^8 p8 f4 I8 d
her, the couple's six children and two of her children from a previous
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% t3 w! y4 H0 Z& NHopkins showed no reaction on Friday as deputies handcuffed him and led . k2 U$ n. L: Z1 a: y0 j
him from the court.
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Children who grew up in his home and who had testified against him stood
6 A1 E; o4 v3 p, a# Ain front row and hugged each other and cried as the verdict was read.
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"There is nothing pleasing about any of this, it is all very
5 W3 ^1 E2 I( C3 ?% P. A$ ~! l* E* g# ndisturbing," Ashley Rich, the prosecuting attorney, said afterwards. "A . {- h* K! M. @6 g5 I
number of children have been harmed and the chances of them fully * Q4 v, }% Z8 i* U8 }
recovering are slim."
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W! m7 R3 B# b8 s0 S) I4 lDefense attorneys left court without answering questions.
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Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
9 S S W0 K4 v) j, B& R2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
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# e: t$ Z. d- M6 Q4 l, s' X: V"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
8 V. W0 r, ~% f1 @8 N, uare you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
5 N; l9 P7 n& z" EHopkins testified., C& A' g( X+ g
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Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
3 a0 v+ d; ?( x( I* y( O2 Jearned a medal for his service. Hopkins was arrested in Saraland, near 9 R: y8 {6 R) J# q7 W
Mobile, in 1998 for being absent without leave from the U.S. Army in
: t2 p5 {; ^% n, }8 f2 B3 hFort Bragg, N.C., from June 15, 1995, until April 6, 1998.' H: A) V. N8 | o* s
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He 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 ( T' r& w! f+ k" X/ G8 Q
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He 3 K9 n1 P' {$ L/ n7 W6 P
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a , @. W$ q. I( P+ r
prophet who could see the future.
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Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
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commended the jury.) K7 O/ T( h+ n) e2 Q; @( t4 _
" Y* f) l% d9 w3 g) H8 i; v"They saw the same thing I did because it didn't take them long to
. Q9 D, m' @6 f. r- X6 [convict him," she said after the verdict. |
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