WIFE AND STEPSON OF KKK LEADER,FRANK ANCONA CHARGED FOR HIS MURDER
Tuesday 14 Feb 2017
The wife and stepson of a Ku Klux Klan leader who was found fatally shot next to a river have been charged with murder.
Malissa Ann Ancona, 44, and her 24-year-old son, Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr., were charged with first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse following the death of white supremacist Frank Ancona.
Both have been jailed without bond.Jinkerson shot his 51-year-old stepfather as he slept Thursday at his home in Leadwood, about 70 miles south of St. Louis, a probable cause statement alleges.
After the shooting, Ancona’s body was taken in Jinkerson’s vehicle to an area near Belgrade, about 20 miles away, according to St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department detective Matt Wampler.
Jinkerson’s attorney, Eric Barnhart, said he didn’t believe his client was involved in the killing, but declined to comment further.
A family that was fishing near the river in eastern Missouri found Frank Ancona’s body on Saturday.
An autopsy conducted Sunday revealed that he died of a gunshot to the head.
Mrs Ancona had previously put out a plea on Facebook asking friends if they knew anything about his disappearance.
Ancona called himself an imperial wizard with the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
A website for the group includes an image of him in a white hood and robe standing in front of a burning cross.
The website describes the group as a ‘White Patriotic Christian organization that bases its roots back to the Ku Klux Klan of the early 20th century.’
The Park Hills Daily Journal said investigators placed yellow police tape around Ancona’s home in Leadwood Saturday, believing he was killed there.
His safe had been broken into and the contents removed. Several of his guns were missing, police told the Daily Journal.
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