Preacher froze wife's body for 3 years

Alabama

Preacher's wife's body found in freezer:

Reason to Blow Up the World...

MOBILE, Ala. - Police believe a body found in a small-time evangelist's home freezer is his wife and a mother of eight, and arrested him on a murder charge as he preached at a south Alabama church. Anthony Hopkins, 37, was being held in the Mobile County jail Wednesday awaiting a bond hearing and appointment of an attorney.

Police said no one reported 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins missing, even though she hadn't been heard from in three years. The body was discovered covered in a freezer in a utility room during a police search of the home in Mobile after a relative of the preacher contacted police.

Mobile Police Chief Phillip Garrett said Hopkins was arrested Monday night at at a revival in Jackson, a town in rural Clarke County where he has roots. The pastor of Inspirational Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, Beverly Jackson, told reporters that Hopkins told her he was a single parent because his wife had died in childbirth.

Garrett said Anthony Hopkins, the father of six of the eight children, has been charged with rape and sodomy in a separate case involving the female relative and could face more charges related to another relative.

Garrett said the Hopkins children were home-schooled. He said Hopkins "kept to himself," and apparently moved from place to place. Neighbors called him "Rev." because he attended church so often, loading the children into a van.

The fact that his name is Anthony Hopkins probably isn't helping. I'm also curious to know what this sick son of a bitch told the children. Hell, for all I know they might have witnessed it. I wonder if he moved around with the body in tow as well.

One point for the murder, one point for hiding the body, another point for the rape, another point for the fact that it was a relative, another point for taking a mother away from 8 cvhildren, and one last point for daring to call yourself a man of God while committing such atrocities. That's six.

Nod of Doom to my wife Jade.

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One of the articles I read said that his oldest daughter, the one who went to police, knew her mother was killed. Apparently he started abusing the duaghter when she was eleven, the mother found out, and was subsequently killed by this crazy asshole. The eldest duaghter is now 19, and has said she was forced to help her dad put mom in the freezer. Not sure what the other children know. The 19 year old moved out recently and told a friend about the abuse and the murder.

Off to find the link....

#1 D.P. on 2008-08-01 03:12 (Reply)

She's also now pregnant with his child.

#1.1 Loner on 2008-08-22 12:36 (Reply)

That's one more point.

#1.1.1 Trench (Homepage) on 2008-08-22 23:30 (Reply)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/31/preacher.freezer/index.html

Here we go.

#2 D.P. on 2008-08-01 03:17 (Reply)

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