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	Bail Hearing Postponed; Body Continues to Thaw By Ron Colquitt Press-Register August 2, 2008 http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1217668506174900.xml&coll=3 The bail hearing scheduled Friday for Anthony Jujuan Hopkins, accused of killing his wife and hiding her body in a freezer, was postponed until Tuesday morning in District Judge Charles McKnight's courtroom, authorities said. The freezer, containing the body of 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins, was removed from the couple's home in the 200 block of Rylands Street on Monday night and taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science's office in Mobile. Ashley Rich, the Mobile County assistant district attorney who has been handling the case, said Friday there had been no new developments in the case. Authorities believe Arletha Hopkins has been dead for almost four years. Members of the dead woman's family from Wadley, Ga., had planned to be in Mobile on Friday. Rich said Friday afternoon that she had not been contacted by the family. The Hopkins household has eight children. Hopkins, 37, was being held without bail Friday afternoon at Mobile County Metro Jail. In Mobile County, he faces charges of murder, rape, sodomy, sex abuse and incest. More charges are expected to be filed in Clarke County, including rape and sodomy, said Steve Giardini, the Mobile County assistant district attorney who prosecutes child abuse cases.
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