Mobile Ala – An Alabama evangelist who authorities say terrorized his family while preaching at revivals has been sentenced to life plus 51 years in prison after being convicted of killing his wife and storing her body in a home freezer.
Circuit Judge John Lockett imposed the sentence Thursday on Anthony Hopkins, 39, who showed no remorse during the proceeding. He got the maximum sentence of life for murder and additional time for convictions including sodomy and sexual abuse.
Assistant District Attorney Ashley Rich called Hopkins ‘Evil of the worst kind.’
She said he taught the eight children in his home things about the Bible that were not true and that helped him get away with his crimes for years. Huffington Post online article 21st May 2010
HOPKINS, EDWIN: Forensics: Catching the Killer TV -
A young girl goes to post a letter for her mum but never returns home. A playground crime scene but the most vital clues are on the victim. And the hunt for a murderer within the community. Forensics: Catching the Killer s3e6: Murder in the Playground, Sky Crime 2024
The victim was 15-year-old Naomi Smith. She had been discovered in terrible circumstances. ibid.
Another breakthrough this time from the forensic science DNA lab. ibid.
The suspect’s name was Edwin Hopkins … just 19 years old. ibid.
HOPKINS, JEAN & JANE: Evil Twins TV -
But beneath their confident smiles Jean and Jane [Hopkins] were keepers of the same dark secret … The Hopkins sisters remain one and the same. Evil Twins s3e2: Folie Aux Deux, Discovery 2015
‘As Jean got better Jane got worse … Jean’s psychosis reaches dangerous new heights.’ ibid.
‘She [Jean] intended for the three of them [two sons] to die … It is now time for Jean to start trial for attempted murder. The trial is swift and merciful.’ ibid.
Jane puts her real plan into action … In the kitchen Clayton [husband] discovers the unthinkable … ‘He found his baby boy’s body lying lifeless. ibid.
HOSEIN, ARTHUR et al: The Wimbledon Kidnapping TV -
London hunt after gems raid: Mystery of Press Chief’s Vanished Wife. The Wimbledon Kidnapping, The Sun front page 30 December 1969, Sky Documentaries 2021
‘It was a unique case [Mrs Muriel McKay]. The end of 1969. We’d never had a kidnapping in Britain. They just didn’t know what was happening. ibid. defence solicitor
We did catch the registration of the Volvo .. that led them to Arthur and his farm. ibid.
McKay Trial Brothers: Arthur tells the court: Now I am fighting for my sanity. ibid. Mirror front page 23 September 1970
My strong feeling is that we’re dealing with more than one speaker in the calls: that means there are three individuals involved. ibid. speech analyst of phone calls
HOSSENCOFFT, DIAZEN & LINDA HENNING: Crime Stories: Alien Conspiracies TV - True Crime Stories online -
One hundred miles south of Albuquerque a highway worker finds some bloody clothing. Crime Stories: Alien Conspiracies, 2004
Is there enough forensic evidence to convict [Diazien] Hossencofft and [Linda] Henning when the victim is still missing? ibid.
Hossencofft takes full credit for the crime absolving Linda of any involvement. He claims he planned the murder and Bill Miller executed it. ibid.
Albuquerque NM, a land rich with legends of the supernatural, including UFOs. Linda Henning had a passing interest in UFO until she met Diazien Hossencofft, and her casual interest turned to obsession. Hossencofft convinced Henning that he was an alien, and somehow manipulated her to murder his wife. In 1999, 36 year old Girly Chew Hossencofft failed to show up for work. Her boss and coworkers were immediately concerned for Girly’s safety, because Girly had told them of repeated threats she received from her estranged husband, Diazien.
Detective Michael Fox checked her home for any evidence of wrong doing and noticed the overwhelming smell of bleach, often used to cover up blood. Investigators used Luminal, which emits a glowing light when it comes in contact with blood. The results were frightening obvious; stains on the floor lit up ‘like a Christmas tree’.
Diazien had disappeared, but police were able to question Henning, who showed up as personal reference on papers belonging to Diazien. Henning claimed she didn’t know him well, and she believed he was a doctor, suffering from leukemia. Days later, a hundred miles from Albuquerque, a road worker found bloody clothes and a tarp. True Crime Stories online article 3rd January 2008
HOUDINI, HARRY murder: Brad Meltzer TV -
The death of Harry Houdini was not an accident as we’ve been led to believe but an act of murder ... New research reveals he had many enemies and the circumstances surrounding his death appear anything but accidental. Brad Meltzer’s Decoded s2e12: Houdini: Murdered? History 2012
There was no autopsy performed. ibid.
Houdini quickly saw that these so-called Spiritualists were employing cons. ibid.
Houdini in Person Who Will Startle and Amaze: With a Lecture on ‘Fraud Mediums and Miracle Mongers’. ibid. poster
His abdominal pains point to poisoning. ibid.
They are going to kill me, Houdini told one friend. ibid.
A team of forensic experts will pore over the exhumed remains of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini to determine whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago, the head of the investigative team said Friday.
‘Everything will be thoroughly analyzed,’ said James Starrs, dean of the disinterment dream team of pathologists, anthropologists, toxicologists and radiologists. ‘We’ll examine his hairs, his fingernails, any bone fractures.’
‘It needs to be looked at,’ said Houdini's great-nephew, George Hardeen. His grandfather was Houdini’s brother, Theodore. ‘His death shocked the entire nation, if not the world. Now, maybe it’s time to take a second look.’ Associated Press article 2007
CLAIRE HOUGH murder: see NANTAIS, BARBARA murder
HOWARD, ROBERT: The Wolf Man TV - CI Crime & Investigation online - Britain's Most Evil Killers TV _
This is the voice of a killer, a violent psychopath who attacked women and young girls over a forty-year period. This is the story of a family who live in hope that one day they will find the missing body of their sister. The Wolf Man, CI 2013
This is the disturbing story of Robert Howard, a psychopathic killer who carefully selected his victims over a forty year period, and the Kent policeman whose investigation took him off the streets.
Robert Howard was almost 60 years of age when the law finally caught up with him for the murder of 14-year-old Hannah Williams in 2001. But almost 30 years earlier he’d been diagnosed as a dangerous psychopath. Now detectives are wondering: how many victims did he really have?
He called himself The Wolf Man – a reference to his origins in the parish of Wolfhill in the boglands of Ireland. He was a drifter who used his position at the very bottom of society to attack young girls again and again.
This is the story of Robert Howard: how he ducked the system, outsmarting police, prosecutors and judges all over Britain and Ireland for decades; how he selected victims who were poor, tearaway girls whose disappearance would worry no-one; how he used older, weak women to help him groom those girls; and how the pattern was only broken when he came up against a Kent police detective, determined to take him off the streets. CI Crime & Investigation online article The Wolf Man
August 1994, Castlederg, Northern Ireland, 15-year-old Arlene Arkinson went to a disco and never came home. The last person to see Arlene was 50-year-old Robert Howard. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s9e3: Robert Howard, Sky Crime 2024
7 years later another teenager went missing in South-East London. When Hannah Williams’ body was found a year later, all roads led to Robert Howard. ibid.
In 1965 he committed his first known sexual offence. ibid.