US EditionMan Makes Shocking Confession to Killing Parents During Live TV Interview
Lorenz Kraus admitted suffocating his aging parents eight years ago in a mercy killing and was arrested immediately after the televised confession, police said.
- Thursday, Kraus, 53, admitted during a WRGB-TV interview that he killed and buried his parents in their Albany backyard, with police arresting him as he left.
- Amid a probe into continued Social Security payments, police recovered bodies at Lorenz Kraus' upstate New York home after investigating why Franz and Theresia Kraus were still receiving benefits.
- Eight minutes into the interview, Lorenz Kraus said he suffocated both parents, using his hand for his father and a rope for his mother, after initially resisting direct answers during the WRGB-TV interview with Greg Floyd, news anchor.
- On Sept. 26, 2025, Lorenz Kraus was arraigned before Judge Joshua Farrell, a public defender entered a not guilty plea, and he was remanded without bail.
- Amid questions about the interview's origins, WRGB-TV officials said Kraus emailed a statement and arrived quickly with a plainclothes police officer nearby, prompting defense probes on media-police ties.
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Man makes shocking confession to killing parents during live TV interview
A man admitted to killing and burying his parents eight years ago in the backyard of their upstate New York home during a television interview this week, then was arrested as he left the studio.
A 53-year-old man, whose parents had been considered missing for years, was targeted by the investigators. Now the accused has made a shocking confession in front of running cameras. A little later, the handcuffs already clicked. After the police found the remains of Franz and Theresia Kraus in the garden of her house, her son Lorenz Kraus agreed to an interview with the local CBS6 station. There, the 53-year-old explained that his parents' heal…
Lorenz Kraus confessed in a live interview to having murdered and buried his parents in 2017. He was arrested minutes later in the canal parking lot. The post United States: arrested after admitting in an interview the murder of his elderly parents appeared first on El Diario.
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