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Frank Ancona

Case from Potosi, MO dated Feb 10, 2017

Victim Details

Frank Ancona

Male

White / Caucasian

Potosi

MO

2017-02-10

51

Frank

Ancona

07/15/2026

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Wife of KKK leader Frank Ancona pleads guilty to killing him

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Frank Ancona, a 51-year-old white male, was a man whose life and death were marked by the very ideology he espoused as an 'imperial wizard' of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. His story, however, would not end with a dramatic clash of beliefs, but in a far more common and tragic tale of domestic strife. In February 2017, Ancona was reported missing from his home in Leadwood, Missouri. His wife, Malissa Ancona, initially told police that her husband had been sent on an out ...
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    I was thinking about how seeing Frank Ancona's connection to the Klan might affect perceptions of th... ...Read More
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