Anthony Hopkins, an Alabama evangelist who spent years torturing his family of eight children before killing his wife and stuffing her body in a deep freezer, all while preaching the word of God at revivals, got the maximum sentence of life, plus 51 years for convictions, including sodomy and sexual abuse.
The 39-year-old evangelist stood devoid of emotion as Circuit Judge John Lockett imposed the sentence last Thursday. Assistant District Attorney Ashley Rich called Hopkins "evil of the worst kind."
Hopkins was caught having sex with a stepdaughter back in 2004 by his wife, Arletha. Hopkins then killed his 34-year-old spouse and jammed her body into a freezer with the assistance of the stepchild, who was pregnant by him at the time.
Child advocates were called about a sexual abuse complaint by one of Hopkin's two stepdaughters in 2008, and when they investigated the charges, they discovered Arletha's body. The preacher man was arrested as he ministered to a revival crowd in Jackson.
Hopkin's defense attorney, Jeff Deen, said that his client did not know how his wife died, but he does, however, admit to jamming her body into the freezer. "There's evidence in the trial that it could've been by natural causes, and it needs to be explored on appeal," Deen said.
The two oldest children, who were living with Hopkins and his wife, are living on their own now, and the six youngest are with relatives in Georgia.
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America Online, Black Voices or Al Jazerra television? Who prepared this story? Granted, the crime allegedly done was heinious at the least but the closed captioning in Arab followed by Biblical and Quran verses and diatribe seemed so out of place in telling the story. Wierd, just wierd.
PREACHER MAN IS ATE UP WITH DEMONS INSIDE OF HIM AND NOW HE HAS TO PAY UP IN PRISON.THE INMATES SHOULD'NT MESS WITH HIM HE IS THE DEVIL AND HAS POWERS WHILE LOCKED UP THERE IN ALABAMA IF THIS MAN PRAY OUT TO SATAN ON SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THE POWER OF SATAN WILL HELP HIM SO THE BEST THING FOR ALL IN THAT PRISON SYSTEM THEIR IS LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE BECAUSE HE HAS CERTAIN POWERS OF THE DEVIL IN HIM. THE CHILDREN HAD ALL THE CHANCES WHILE IN SCHOOL DAILY TO REPORT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND THIER MOTHER WILL BE ALIVE NOW.GLAD THINGS CAME IN THERE FAVOR ON HIM AND THE STP-DAUGHTER SHOULD PUT THE BABYUP TO AN AGENCY TO RAISE NOT HER.
First of all, this is a shocking story that unfortunately isn't the only case of its kind. But, the cc throughout and the theological lesson at the end...? Doesn't anyone think for themselves anymore? Or do you have to wait to be told what is the right version of something...or the right way to do something...don't you feel it in your gut? You want a real humdinger? Watch Zeitgeist. We all, collectively, make the higher power what it is...it is of us and we of of it. No nation. or one religion has all the answers. No one religion is the RIGHT religion. We are all part of it. People like this man Hopkins hide behind religious scripture to prove their justness, while others use their book to validate their righteousness. It has nothing to do with what book he did or didn't read/preach from. He's a sad excuse. He's so religious...eye for an eye. Just get rid of him.
To Sarah: What did you just say? "Just get rid of him"??? Is that your final answer? Do you realize that by saying just those words you become as disturbed in your thoughts as he is in his.
You direct others to read Zeitgeist, which in fact is good advice for people who have open minds and proper critical thinking skills. It is a shame that anyone who practices ancient and primitive religious beliefs and thinks a "God" exists somewhere, will more than likely have their mental process corrupted. It tends to hamper free thought and, hampers what good education could reveal. Primitive, ancient Religious Beliefs should have no place in modern society if man is to ever cease killing man.
"Just get rid of him" should have no place in a modern world. Primitive religious beliefs afford mankind the apparatus to murder itself.
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By: KAT on 5/23/2010 12:12PM
THIS IS SO UGLY
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By: bigdrob1 on 5/23/2010 12:28PM
Hannibal Lector ,I mean Anthony Hopkins has fianally gotten his due, he was saving her untill she was ripe enough for faver beans and a white chainti.
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By: Cecilia on 5/23/2010 1:17PM
America Online, Black Voices or Al Jazerra television? Who prepared this story? Granted, the crime allegedly done was heinious at the least but the closed captioning in Arab followed by Biblical and Quran verses and diatribe seemed so out of place in telling the story. Wierd, just wierd.
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By: ADMR on 5/23/2010 1:39PM
Lost WEIRDOS...AND Many Males Treat Females Like Dirt - How Come??? - lol
BOTHERED WITH MY PERFECTION
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By: newqueen2010 on 5/23/2010 1:21PM
He had some nerves to do that and preach the word of God. And the Lord said beware of false prophets.
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By: ADMR on 5/23/2010 1:41PM
A Preacher - What A Joke - This Is Old News - Beaware Of False Prophets PEOPLE!
BLESSINGS!
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By: alabama on 5/23/2010 8:31PM
PREACHER MAN IS ATE UP WITH DEMONS INSIDE OF HIM AND NOW HE HAS TO PAY UP IN PRISON.THE INMATES SHOULD'NT MESS WITH HIM HE IS THE DEVIL AND HAS POWERS WHILE LOCKED UP THERE IN ALABAMA IF THIS MAN PRAY OUT TO SATAN ON SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THE POWER OF SATAN WILL HELP HIM SO THE BEST THING FOR ALL IN THAT PRISON SYSTEM THEIR IS LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE BECAUSE HE HAS CERTAIN POWERS OF THE DEVIL IN HIM. THE CHILDREN HAD ALL THE CHANCES WHILE IN SCHOOL DAILY TO REPORT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND THIER MOTHER WILL BE ALIVE NOW.GLAD THINGS CAME IN THERE FAVOR ON HIM AND THE STP-DAUGHTER SHOULD PUT THE BABYUP TO AN AGENCY TO RAISE NOT HER.
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By: Jake on 5/23/2010 2:45PM
What a wicked, wicked man. I hope he will be given a really good life long education in prison. So sorry for the wife and her children.
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By: Sarah on 5/23/2010 2:49PM
First of all, this is a shocking story that unfortunately isn't the only case of its kind. But, the cc throughout and the theological lesson at the end...? Doesn't anyone think for themselves anymore? Or do you have to wait to be told what is the right version of something...or the right way to do something...don't you feel it in your gut? You want a real humdinger? Watch Zeitgeist. We all, collectively, make the higher power what it is...it is of us and we of of it. No nation. or one religion has all the answers. No one religion is the RIGHT religion. We are all part of it. People like this man Hopkins hide behind religious scripture to prove their justness, while others use their book to validate their righteousness. It has nothing to do with what book he did or didn't read/preach from. He's a sad excuse. He's so religious...eye for an eye. Just get rid of him.
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By: James Gadson on 5/27/2010 1:07PM
To Sarah: What did you just say? "Just get rid of him"??? Is that your final answer? Do you realize that by saying just those words you become as disturbed in your thoughts as he is in his.
You direct others to read Zeitgeist, which in fact is good advice for people who have open minds and proper critical thinking skills. It is a shame that anyone who practices ancient and primitive religious beliefs and thinks a "God" exists somewhere, will more than likely have their mental process corrupted. It tends to hamper free thought and, hampers what good education could reveal. Primitive, ancient Religious Beliefs should have no place in modern society if man is to ever cease killing man.
"Just get rid of him" should have no place in a modern world. Primitive religious beliefs afford mankind the apparatus to murder itself.
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