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By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and | z*h
发帖数: 206 | 2 Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
abused and impregnated.
Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
her, the couple's six children and two of her children fro
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: By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Melissa Nelson, Associated
: Press Writer – Fri Apr 9, 11:02 pm ET
: MOBILE, Ala. – An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while
: impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his
: wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.
: People who heard Anthony Hopkins' sermons in rural towns around the
: South sometimes called him a psychic or even a prophet. Yet a prosecutor
: told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and
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发帖数: 206 | 3 Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
"I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
Hopkins testified.
Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
earned a medal for his ser
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: Hopkins was arrested in 2008 while preaching at a revival on charges
: that he killed 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. Authorities said they were
: led to the body of his wife by a teenage relative that Hopkins had
: abused and impregnated.
: Investigators say Hopkins killed his wife in a violent fight in 2004
: after she caught him having sex with the teenager. They said he then
: stuffed the wife's body into a freezer at the Mobile home he shared with
: her, the couple's six children and two of her children fro
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发帖数: 206 | 4 He testified Friday that he decided to leave the Army after he got
orders to serve in Korea and could not take his family with him.
It was then he said that he had a calling to become an evangelist and
began preaching at churches and revivals around the rural South. He
developed a following because many who heard him preach considered him a
prophet who could see the future.
Six of the children who lived with the couple have been sent to live
with in Georgia with Arletha Hopkins' stepmother Mary
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: Defense attorneys left court without answering questions.
: Hopkins told jurors Friday that he came home on a December evening in
: 2004 and found his wife dead on the floor, with the youngest of her
: eight children, an month-old infant, beside her.
: "I was shocked and I began to shake her, and I was like 'Letha, Letha
: are you alright?' I began to shake her, tilt her head back and do CPR,"
: Hopkins testified.
: Hopkins served in the U.S. Army in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s and
: earned a medal for his ser
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