ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY • A Missouri Ku Klux Klan leader
might have been shot in his sleep because he had told his wife he
wanted a divorce, St. Francois County Prosecutor Jarrod Mahurin said
Monday after filing murder charges.
“It may have been a marital
issue,” he told a reporter. He said Frank Ancona, 51, was shot in the
head between 2 and 3 a.m. on Thursday.
Malissa Ann Ancona, 44, of
Leadwood, Mo., and her son, Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr., 24, of Belgrade,
Mo., were charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action,
tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse.
Jinkerson
shot his sleeping stepfather in the bedroom of the victim’s home in
Leadwood, sheriff’s Detective Matt Wampler wrote in an affidavit
accompanying the charges. Ancona’s body was taken in Jinkerson’s vehicle
to an area outside Belgrade, where it was dumped near the Big River,
Wampler wrote.
Ancona
called himself an imperial wizard with the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
A website for that group features
an image of Ancona in a white hood and robe standing in front of a burning cross. His wife is shown next to him in another photo.
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