Freezer Murder: Minister Speaks Out

One Mobile minister, who preached alongside Anthony Hopkins for almost 10 years says, the case has devastated the Christian community.
Pastor Jerry Porter says he met the Hopkins family back in 1998 at the Williams Street Holiness Church in Trinity Gardens.
He says he Hopkins preached there in 2004. "A lot of us just gravitated to him because it was just awesome to see that special gift that worked like that, where you could speak into a person's life..see into a person's life,"Said the Mobile minister. But he says Hopkins sermons only lasted six months. Porter says that is when rumors began to swirl that his wife Arletha had died and says it is the last time he remembers seeing her. Pastor Porter says he questioned Hopkins about his wife. "I had came to him personally and I was only left with an opinion and I just didn't want to go off of that. But when this surfaced, it pretty much validated what I had possibly thought,"Said Porter.
Pastor Porter says while he had to let Hopkins go from his congregation in 2004 after the rumors began, they kept in close touch. Porter says the last time he spoke with Anthony Hopkins, was in December of last year.