Son confesses in on-camera interview to killing missing elderly parents after remains found buried at their NY home

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Son confesses in on-camera interview to killing missing elderly parents after remains found buried at their NY home
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A deranged Albany man admitted to killing his elderly parents and burying their bodies in the backyard of their quiet suburban home in a chilling on-camera confession. “I buried them in their property,” Lorenz Kraus, the son of Franz and Theresia Kraus — who disappeared without a trace in 2017 — said during a jaw-droppingLorenz Krauz admitted on-camera to killing his elderly parents and burying their bodies in the backyard of their Albany home.

The interview aired just hours after police discovered two bodies buried in the family’s home. Investigators began digging in the yard on Wednesday, where they uncovered the first set of human remains. A second body was found on Thursday. “You suffocated them? You suffocated your parents,” Floyd asked as a series of stammering back and forths, where Kraus tried to backpedal on the confession and invoke his “Fifth Amendment rights.”“My father, after he died, my mother put his head on his chest, and after a few hours, I finished her,” Kraus said.3 Kraus appeared to justify the killings during the disturbing exchange, framing it as an act of mercy for his aging parents.Authorities said they were tipped off in May, when the Social Security Administration requested a welfare check on the elderly couple, who were still collecting benefits. But when officers arrived, Franz and Theresia Kraus, who would be 92 and 83 respectively, were nowhere to be found.“I did my duty to my parents,” Kraus told Floyd during the sitdown. “My concern for their misery was paramount.” Kraus appeared to justify the killings during the disturbing exchange, framing it as an act of mercy for his aging parents. His mother was injured crossing a road, and his father could no longer drive after cataract surgery, Kraus recalled. When asked at one point if he killed them, he said he would “never have done such a thing, knowing what I did was wrong.” “My goal is for the American people to recognize that there is 40 million boomers, they are all going to go through the same kind of problems. It affects all of us, and we need to widen up the law so people can deal with these kinds of problems,” he said.The madman eventually told Floyd he hoped the disturbing exchange would be aired on YouTube after confirming he made all of the statements of a sound mind.A strange statement released by Kraus to CBS6 and other outlets did not mention his parents but touted his hare-brained plan to replace the state and federal governments with a board of trustees. He bizarrely claimed that if the public didn’t want to go through with his plan, he would be prosecuted under German law. The statement raved about politicians such as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and President Trump, linking them to incoherent conspiracy theories. Albany Police Chief Brendan Cox confirmed authorities are still working to positively identify the two bodies as the elderly couple. “While we are confident that those are the remains of Franz and Theresia Kraus, we still need to do some work and confirm who that is,” he said during aPolice also mentioned that they had received a call from a relative back in February 2020 to do a welfare check at the house. A neighbor told them that the Krauses had moved out of the country. Two tropical cyclones could collide into monster storm — triggering rare Fujiwhara Effect and threatening East Coast$2.2 billion solar plant in California scheduled to be turned off after years of wasted money: 'Never lived up to its promises'Braless Dakota Johnson leaves little to the imagination in sheer lace dress at Zurich Film Festival Conspiracy Theorists Are Locked In On ‘Snake Eyes,’ A 1998 Movie Featuring The Assassination Of A Character Named Charles KirklandLorenz Krauz admitted on-camera to killing his elderly parents and burying their bodies in the backyard of their Albany home.Kraus appeared to justify the killings during the disturbing exchange, framing it as an act of mercy for his aging parents.

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