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July 31st, 2008
Posted: 01:42 PM ET
(CNN) — An evangelical preacher killed his wife several years ago and stuffed her body in a freezer after she caught him abusing their daughter, Mobile, Alabama, police and court documents contend. Anthony Hopkins, 37, was arrested Monday night at the Inspirational Tabernacle Church of God in Christ in Jackson, Alabama, just after he had delivered a sermon to a congregation that included his seven other children, officials said. He faces charges including murder, rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and incest. The case began when the daughter, now 19, went to the Mobile Police Department’s Child Advocacy Center on Monday and reported she had been sexually abused by Hopkins since she was 11 years old, according to an affidavit filed seeking a search warrant of the preacher’s home. |
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