(AP) – The wife and stepson of the leader of a Ku Klux Klan group who
was found fatally shot in eastern Missouri have pleaded not guilty to murder and
other charges.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 44-year-old Malissa Ancona, of Leadwood,
and 24-year-old Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr., of Belgrade, entered their pleas
Tuesday in the Feb. 9 death of Frank Ancona. The two are each charged with
murder, armed criminal action, abandonment of a corpse and tampering with
physical evidence.
Frank Ancona was imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan.
A probable cause statement alleges that Jinkerson shot Ancona at his home in
Leadwood, about 70 miles south of St. Louis. His body was found near the Big
River outside of Belgrade.
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