Welcome to Arrest Stories. Fifty-three-year-old Lorenz Kraus shocked viewers when he confessed on live television to killing his elderly parents eight years ago, leading to his immediate arrest in the station parking lot. Here's what may have happened.
In a stunning turn of events that unfolded in Albany, Lorenz Kraus sat down with WRGB-Channel Six anchor Greg Floyd for what became a thirty-two-minute confession that left viewers speechless. During the taped interview, Kraus calmly detailed how he killed his parents, Franz and Theresia Kraus, back in twenty seventeen.
According to Kraus's on-camera statements, his mother had been injured crossing Wolf Road, and his father could no longer drive after cataract surgery. "My concern for their misery was paramount," Kraus told Floyd. "They knew they were going downhill."
Kraus described choking his father to death with his hands, then strangling his mother with a rope after she rested her head on his father's chest. "I told them, 'Go find Rosa,'" he said during the interview. "It was so quick." He justified his actions by saying, "I did the right thing for them based on the situation. I did my duty to them as a son."
The investigation began when the Social Security Administration contacted police in May twenty twenty-five about suspicious benefit collections. This led to a search warrant at Six Crestwood Court in Albany, where excavation equipment was used to recover the bodies from the backyard. One body was found Wednesday, the other Thursday morning.
Kraus admitted he waited two or three days after the killings before burying his parents on their own property. "I buried them in their property," he stated, adding "I didn't play with the money. I didn't enrich myself."
Following his televised confession, Kraus was arrested in the CBS Six parking lot and charged with second-degree murder. He's being held without bail.
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