A man from Upstate New York confessed to murdering his parents nearly a decade ago in a TV interview.
Lorenz Kraus, 53, made the alarming on-camera confession to CBS6 in Albany a day after police said they recovered two bodies from the home. Police were initially investigating why Kraus’ parents, Franz and Theresia Kraus, were still receiving Social Security payments despite not having been seen or heard from in years.
Kraus sat for a 30-minute interview with news anchor Greg Floyd and was initially reluctant to directly admit he had killed his parents in 2017. Several minutes into the interview, Kraus made the stunning admission.
“They knew that this was it for them, that they were perishing at your hand?” news anchor Greg Floyd asked Kraus.
“Yes,” said Kraus. “And it was so quick.”
Kraus claimed he carried out the killings as an act of “mercy” for his aging parents because their health was declining. Kraus said his parents did not ask to be killed but, “they knew they were going downhill.”
Kraus did not say that his parents had terminal illnesses, telling Floyd that his mother had been injured after a fall while crossing a road, and that cataract surgery had left his father unable to drive.
Floyd asked Kraus about more details regarding his parents’ deaths.
“You suffocated your parents?” Floyd asked Kraus.
Kraus said he had killed his father first, “and after he died, my mother put her head on his chest, and she was there for a few hours, and then I finished her.”
Watch the disturbing interview below:
Kraus was arrested moments after he left the television studio and was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of concealment of a human corpse.
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And I assume the murderer cashed their SS checks for ten years.