Wife & Stepson Of Slain KKK Guy Who Recruited In New Lenox Charged With His Murder: Report

The wife and stepson of a slain Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard who once sought new KKK members in New Lenox have reportedly been charged with his murder.

“Imperial Wizard” Frank Ancona had reportedly been found dead on the bank of a Missouri river last week. In 2014, Ancona’s faction of the KKK distributed recruiting fliers in New Lenox. A rival Klan group also left literature around town that year.

The New York Post reported on Monday that Ancona’s wife, Malissa Ann Ancona, 44, and stepson, Paul Edward Jinkerson, 24, were charged with first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse.

“Jinkerson, according to a probable cause statement, shot Frank Ancona on Thursday in his bedroom as he slept before ... dumping Ancona’s body in a wooded area near Belgrade,” the Post said.

Detectives also found “extensive blood evidence” in the Ancona home, according to the Post, which referenced a probable cause statement that said Malissa Ann Ancona told police she shot her husband and attempted to cover up the crime.

In 2014, Frank Ancona told Patch he received death threats “all the time.”

“I don't get death threats from black groups or Jewish groups,” he said. “I get them from other Klan groups."

Another KKK guy, Robert Jones, told Patch Frank Ancona was nothing more than a fraudulent schemer and accused him of being Jewish.

“Frank Ancona is also Jewish and his wife is Jewish and he’s being exposed all through the Klan world as a fake and he ain’t even white and you can actually look his family tree up which we’ve got his family tree which we can give y'all too and you can post it," Jones said.

Ancona denied being Jewish.

"If I was a Jew, I'd admit it," he said, calling Jones and his group "drunks and druggies." He said some in that outfit had been kicked out of his organization for substance abuse and other criminal activity.

Besides claiming Ancona was Jewish and a scammer, Jones also said Ancona was not white and was possibly working as an undercover government agent. Jones went on to make a vague threat about getting his organization’s issues with Ancona “straightened out.”

"I don't want to say on any type of telephone," Jones said. "But we're going to get it straightened out."

Frank Ancona | submitted photo