KKK Imperial Wizard Whacked By Own Family

Ku Kux Klan leader Frank Ancona was found dead in a Missouri river — and now cops have arrested the hatemonger's own wife and stepson for putting a bullet in his head! Malissa Ann Ancona (seen here with her husband) and her son, Paul Edward Jinkerson, Jr., face charges of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and abandonment of a corpse in connection with the shocking crime.

Official documents allege that the assailants shot Ancona while he slept in his home on Thursday, February 9, and dragged his corpse out to Jinkerson’s vehicle before driving it 20 miles west to Belgrade, Mo., to dump it. Malissa Ann Ancona initially told police that Ancona was away on business.

Ancona — a self-described “Imperial Wizard” with the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — produced several YouTube recruitment videos for the group and has appeared on MSNBC and other TV outlets promoting his white-supremacist beliefs. His death sparked several conspiracy theories, since he had once been marked for vengeance by the bizarre internet group known as Anonymous.

A U.S. Forest Service employee found Ancona’s car some 30 miles from Big River, and investigators discovered evidence of a “burn pile” nearby.  A family on a fishing trip found the body on Saturday, leading to an investigation that led back to the crime scene – the Ancona’s home — where the murdered man's wife had done an inadequate job of covering her bloody tracks.