(This takes 2.5 minutes to read. Note: although most sources refer to this murderer as Frank Spisak, Jr., she said while on death row that she wanted to be known as Frances Ann(e). I have decided to refer to her as such and replace instances of dead-naming, not so much out of respect for her, but as a matter of principle and respect for the transgender community, even though they would have been, to put it politely, much less patient with her than the bourgeois state was.)
Quoting Spencer Sunshine’s Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege:
[Frances Anne] was one of the handful of murderers that Mason praised who could legitimately be considered neo-Nazis.
Mason had met [Ann] around 1970 at the [so-called National Socialist White People’s Party] bookstore in Cleveland as well as at party functions in Arlington, Virginia, and they had some correspondence in 1971. The NSM paper reported that, in 1975, the White Confederacy condemned [Ann] for falsely claiming [that s]he was an officer in a neo-Nazi group that [s]he had actually been expelled from.⁵⁰
[Ann] transitioned gender, started on hormones, planned to (but didn’t) get gender-affirming surgery, and had sex with men and a black female sex worker. But [Ann] then reversed course and in 1982 killed three men—two who were black and one whom [s]he thought was Jewish—during what [s]he called “hunting parties.” At h[er] trial, [Ann] sported a Hitler mustache and gave sieg heils. [Sh]e was convicted and sentenced to death.⁵¹
Mason received a letter from death row in January 1984; [Ann] said he was already in touch with Warthan and Reynolds. “I don’t know what you’ve seen or heard about my case or me, but I assure you I’m a true Resistance Fighter and a Racial Guerilla Warrior,” [Ann] wrote, signing it “A National Socialist P.O.W. in North America.”⁵²
Mason told Reynolds that he was aware of [Ann’s] situation but had reservations because of h[er] former gender transition and sexual partners. Mason was able to get over his qualms, sent [Ann] literature, and adopted h[er] as a political prisoner. The May 1984 SIEGE reprinted newspaper articles and excerpts from letters focusing on [Ann’s] politics, with a carefully worded endorsement that stressed that the revolution wouldn’t happen “by the book.” Mason also listed [Ann’s] address so [that] supporters could write h[er], running it in SIEGE several times in 1984. Universal Order even issued one of h[er] writings as the flyer “Frank Spisak on the Racialist Revolutionary Movement.”⁵³
[Ann] would spend years appealing his sentence and transitioned gender once again in prison. An appeal made its way to the Supreme Court, which ruled against it in 2010. After breaking the Ohio state record for the time spent on death row, [Ann] was executed in February 2011.⁵⁴
(Emphasis original.)
It is interesting to note that Ann(e) was more peaceful when she was questioning (going so far as to have intimate relations with a Black sex worker), but became a homicidal White supremacist when she stopped questioning her assigned gender and sexuality. On the other hand:
[Ann] reportedly blamed the 1982 shootings on h[er] hatred of homosexuals, African Americans, Jews and on h[er] mental illness, which was supposedly related to confusion about h[er] own sexual identity.
Plenty of mentally ill adults (bipolar transgender ones included, to whom this murderer presumably belonged) have rejected White supremacist violence, and for that reason alone we should be skeptic of anybody who chalks up oppression to mental illness. Either way, though, this is further evidence that even Gentiles can become victims of antisemitism.
While on death row, Ann(e) said that she no longer sympathized with the neofascist movement. Nevertheless, it is a little suspicious that she was reading a biography of an Axis dictator late in her life, and somebody saw her apparent Germanophilia as a confirmation of her diuturnal neofascism, but make of that what you will. In any case, given her lower-class background, it is unlikely that she would have always remained a neofascist.
Sadly staying in the closet has a high track record of turning queer people into far right lunatics.



