“Some of us are! But some of us are college educated. “They want to portray us as all toothless, redneck tobacco chewers,” Frank Ancona Jr told The Times. In explaining his philosophy, he told the newspaper that his group is nonviolent, supports the separation of races and opposes what he called "equality propaganda." The high-profile shooting brought attention to Frank Ancona Jr., who appeared on national television, to discuss how the race protests following a white police officer's shooting of an unarmed black man had rallied KKK members.Īmong other recent activity, the group under Frank Ancona Jr.'s leadership also passed out pamphlets in several towns in Maine, the Times reported. The New York Times reported that Frank Ancona Jr.'s Ku Klux Klan faction, although not large in number, was successful in distributing pamphlets in the aftermath of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, that urged using "lethal force" against protesters. Jinkerson, 26, is facing first-degree murder charges and, also like Malissa Ancona, charges of abandoning a corpse and tampering with evidence. But Malissa Ancona said in court Friday that Jinkerson was not guilty of murder, only the other two crimes.įrank Ancona Jr. told the New York Times in an interview before his death that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan for 30 years and had founded the Traditionalist American Knights of the Klan in 2009. In addition, Ancona admitted in court to cleaning the walls of their bedroom and disposing of bloody bedding and dumping Frank Ancona Jr.’s body near Belgrade, Missouri.
"I fired both shots that killed my husband,” the Post-Dispatch reported Malissa Ancona told a judge Friday. She said she was "under the influence" when she made her first statements and instead took the blame for the killing. – killed him while he was sleeping with a 9-millimeter handgun after he had asked for a divorce.īut she later changed her tune again in letters from jail, according to the Post-Dispatch. She then said that her son, Paul Jinkerson Jr. – the stepson of Frank Ancona Jr. Originally, Malissa Ancona, of Leadwood, Missouri, reported her husband missing.
The Knights has had chapters in Idaho and Pennsylvania as well.įrank Ancona Jr. was killed by gun shot wounds to the head, a coroner determined, after he was found dead on a bank of the Big River near Belgrade, Missouri, about 70 miles southwest of St. The group, based in Park Hills, Missouri, had a presence last year in South Dakota and Florida, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.
Louis Post-Dispatch reported, as well as tampering with evidence and the abandonment of a corpse.Īs part of her plea agreement with state prosecutors, she was sentenced to life in prison.Īncona, who was 51 when he died in February 2017, was imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which is believed to have only a few dozen members nationwide. Francois County Circuit Court in Farmington, Missouri, to second-degree murder in the death of Frank Ancona Jr., the St. Malissa Ancona, 46, pleaded guilty in St. Now, she says her son didn't help commit the homicide. The wife of a deceased Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri admitted in court Friday to his 2017 shooting death after initially saying two years ago that her son was the murderer.
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