Monday, April 5, 2010

Mobile, AL: Evangelist set for trial in wife's death

Associated Press - April 5, 2010 5:04 AM ET

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A part-time south Alabama evangelist faces life in prison in the death of his wife, a mother of 8 whose body had been stored in a freezer inside his home for at least three years before it was discovered by investigators.

Jury selection in Anthony Hopkins' trial is scheduled to start Monday morning in Mobile. Hopkins also faces charges of sexual abuse, rape, sodomy and incest.

Prosecutors have said a teenage victim who is a female relative of Hopkins' and was pregnant with his child led police to Arletha Hopkins' body in 2008.

Hopkins was arrested in Clarke County while preaching at a rural revival.

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