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The wife of a Missouri leader Ku Klux Klan admitted to shooting her husband in 2017 when she pleaded guilty to second degree murder in court on Friday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. In addition to the murder charge, Malissa Ancona also pleaded guilty to tampering with the evidence and abandoning a corpse in connection with the death of Frank Ancona Jr. She was sentenced to life in prison. "I shot the two shots that killed my husband," Ancona reportedly told the district judge, Wendy Wexler Horn. She also admitted cleaning the walls of her room, throwing away her bloody bedding and throwing her husband's body. Ancona claimed that her son, Paul Jinkerson Jr., did not take part in the shooting of her husband – who was an "imperial wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan – but had helped clean up the evidence and the destruction of the body. Jinkerson Jr. faces the same charges as his mother.
Ancona previously told the authorities that Jinkerson Jr. was the one who shot her husband, but then claimed that she was "under influence" and could not recall the events that had surrounded her husband's death. The father of Ancona Junior told the court on Friday that his son had "no more face" as a result of the February 2017 shootout.
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