MOBILE, Ala. (RNS) The body of a preacher’s wife, found stuffed into a freezer at the family home, was so badly decomposed that an exact cause of death could not be determined, prosecutors said Friday (April 10).

Itinerant preacher Anthony Jujuan Hopkins, 38, was indicted by a Mobile County grand jury that released its report Friday. He is charged on five counts, including murder, rape, sodomy, incest and sex abuse.

Police and prosecutors allege that Hopkins killed his wife, Arletha, buried her in a shallow grave, 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.

The person who turned him in was a daughter, who has alleged that she began having sex with Hopkins eight years earlier. She said Hopkins justified the sexual relationship by citing biblical passages.

The daughter claimed Hopkins killed her mother nearly five years ago by strangling her, then buried her in some woods near Semmes, police said. He later unearthed the body and moved it to church property in Clarke County, the daughter said, before digging it up again and stuffing it in a freezer in the family’s Mobile home.

The daughter led police to the body last July.