MOBILE — The body of a preacher’s wife, found stuffed into a freezer in the family home, was so badly decomposed that an exact cause of death could not be determined, prosecutors said April 10.
Itinerant preacher Anthony Jujuan Hopkins, 38, was indicted by a Mobile County grand jury that released its report April 10. He is charged on five counts, including murder, rape, sodomy, incest and sex abuse.
Police and prosecutors allege that Hopkins killed his wife, Arletha, and buried her in a shallow grave and then dug her up and placed the body in a freezer.
Assistant District Attorney Ashley Rich said an autopsy was able to show only that Arletha Hopkins’ death came about as a result of “homicidal violence due to undetermined cause.”
Anthony Hopkins has remained in Mobile County Metro Jail since his arrest last summer.
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