Years before Frank Ancona was murdered, animal rescue groups near his home in rural Leadwood, Missouri, worried about the cats hoarded by the Ku Klux Klansman's wife.
Malissa Ancona, 44, boarded dozens of them in "deplorable" conditions, along with a couple of dogs, says Lucretia Skaggs, a founder of Midwest Community Cat Alliance.
"We’ve always known we would have to go to that house and do a major rescue," Skaggs tells the Riverfront Times. "We’ve known that for years.…