This photo, provided by the St. Francis County Sheriff's Department in Farmington, Missouri, shows Malissa Ancona. Ancona admitted to shooting her husband, an imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Ancona pleaded guilty Friday for second-degree murder, tampering with evidence and abandoning a corpse, Friday, April 19, 2019, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the framework of a plea agreement. (County Sheriff's Department via AP) ORG XMIT: CER201 (Photo: AP)

The wife of a deceased Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri admitted to court Friday his shooting death, after declaring for the first time two years ago that his son was the murderer .

Now, she says that her son did not help to commit the homicide.

Malissa Ancona, 46, pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of Frank Ancona Jr. in the St. Francois County Criminal Court in Farmington, Missouri, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, as well as the falsification of evidence and the abandonment of a corpse.

As part of her plea agreement with prosecutors, she was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Ancona, who was 51 years old when he died in February 2017, was an Imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who would only have a few dozen people in the country.

The group, based in Park Hills, Missouri, was present last year in South Dakota and Florida, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which follows the hate groups. Knights also had chapters in Idaho and Pennsylvania.

Frank Ancona Jr. was shot dead in the head near the Big River, near Belgrade, Missouri, about 70 miles southwest of St. Louis.

Malissa Ancona of Leadwood, Missouri, originally reported the disappearance of her husband. She then stated that her son, Paul Jinkerson Jr. – the son-in-law of Frank Ancona Jr. – had killed him while he was sleeping with a 9-millimeter handgun after filing for divorce.

But she later changed her melody again in prison letters, according to the Post-Dispatch. She said that she was "under the influence" when she made her first statements and that she instead took the blame for the murder.

"I fired the two shots that killed my husband," said Friday to Malissa Ancona the Attorney General Post-Dispatch.

In addition, Ancona admitted to the court cleaning the walls of his room, removing the bloody bedding and depositing the body of Frank Ancona Jr. near Belgrade, Missouri.

Jinkerson, 26, faces charges of first-degree murder and, like that of Malissa Ancona, on charges of abandoning a corpse and falsifying evidence. But Malissa Ancona declared in court Friday that Jinkerson was not guilty of murder, but only of the other two crimes.

Daryl Davis, musician and author of Silver Springs, met Frank Ancona of Park Hills, Missouri, in March 2013 in Missouri, as part of his strategy of contacting the Klansmen to convince them and dismantle the company. organization by conversation. . Anoona says that he served for five years as an "imperial wizard" for the modern Ku Klux Klan lineage who calls himself "the American traditionalist knights". (Gannett / courtesy of Daryl Davis via the Des Moines Registry) ORG XMIT: GANNETT [Via MerlinFTP Drop] (Photo: DARYL DAVIS, GANNETT)

Frank Ancona Sr. testified in court that Malissa Ancona had killed his son because he was going to leave his wife, reported the daily Post-Dispatch.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of Ku Klux Klan groups, around 30 in 2017, has dropped.

On its website, the center reports that the Klan has attempted to form alliances with similar organizations, such as the Southern League and the National Socialist Movement, to "maintain a semblance of relevance".

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