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Preacher Convicted of Killing Wife, Freezing Body
NY Times ^ | April 9, 2010

Posted on 04/09/2010 8:18:45 PM PDT by Steelfish

Edited on 04/09/2010 8:29:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- 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.


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1 posted on 04/09/2010 8:18:45 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Man i loved him in Silence of the lambs..
2 posted on 04/09/2010 8:23:09 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: Steelfish
Yep...sick bullies of all kinds roaming around....aren't there. Militant politicians, preachers, news article columnists. People can't be too careful.
3 posted on 04/09/2010 8:23:36 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: GSP.FAN

Wow you’re fast. First thing I thought of!


4 posted on 04/09/2010 8:24:30 PM PDT by BuckyKat
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To: Steelfish

Nice job preserving the evidence.


5 posted on 04/09/2010 8:24:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 11 days away from outliving Jack Kerouac)
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To: Steelfish
Took awhile to find his pic, but here he is...

Anthony Hopkins sits on the stand as he testifies during his trial in Circuit Judge John Lockett's courtroom at Mobile Government Plaza in Mobile, Ala., on Friday, April 9, 2010. The part-time south Alabama evangelist faces a murder charge in the death of his wife, a mother of 8 whose body had been stored in a freezer inside his home.

6 posted on 04/09/2010 8:25:41 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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If only he had been allowed to be married he wouldn’t have killed his wife.


7 posted on 04/09/2010 8:25:54 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: Steelfish

Mobile home or mobile home


8 posted on 04/09/2010 8:26:10 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Steelfish

bookmark


9 posted on 04/09/2010 8:26:33 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Any dissent means you are a troll.)
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Yet a prosecutor told jurors that Anthony Hopkins terrorized his wife and young children, isolated them and used the Bible to manipulate them.

I always question statements like this.

Sorry, but there is always responsibility for those being manipulated unless they are as dumb as dirt.
10 posted on 04/09/2010 8:26:37 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: onyx

Good heavens!


12 posted on 04/09/2010 8:28:03 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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Preacher says seeing stepdaughter in 'chocolate negligee' was too much temptation


13 posted on 04/09/2010 8:28:34 PM PDT by csvset
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Ok...here is a violent maniac and no one ever had any suspicion of anything? I don't buy that. Somebody outside had a clue through the years but chose to ignore it. Nobody is that good. There are always clues but people choose to ignore them. I'm surprised the rotten b*st*rd didn't get struck by lightening. But I would bet 1mil that what this maniac was preaching was not the true Word of God. The article conveniently leaves out any denominational references.
14 posted on 04/09/2010 8:29:15 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Control the American people? Herding cats would be easier.)
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So he killed his wife in 2004 and wasn’t arrested until 2008?

How the hell does that happen? No one noticed she was missing???


15 posted on 04/09/2010 8:30:45 PM PDT by elli1
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To: csvset

Last couple of paragraphs are a hoot!


16 posted on 04/09/2010 8:32:10 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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17 posted on 04/09/2010 8:32:58 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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OMG..that is disgusting.


18 posted on 04/09/2010 8:35:15 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: Steelfish

He actually looks evil to me.


19 posted on 04/09/2010 8:36:19 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: Earthdweller

You can’t make it up. Daughter knew all about it.


20 posted on 04/09/2010 8:37:20 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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