Lorenz Kraus confessed to killing his parents during Thursday’s interview and buried their bodies at the backyard of his house in New York eight years ago. Later he was arrested when he left the studio. The confession came the day after the police said she had gained two bodies from home in Albany. The authorities launched an investigation after finding that Kraus’s parents, Franz and Theresia Kraus, still received social security benefits, although they disappeared years ago.
Lorenz Kraus contacted the local intelligence outlet CBS6 and sat in a half -hour interview in which he described death as killing mercy for aging parents who became more fragile. The probe, however, revealed that Kraus has been pocket money for years in social security.
What Kraus said about why he killed his parents?
During the interview Kraus repeatedly refused to say how his parents died. The Greg Floyd anchor message would not let it go and still turned back to its most important question: “Did you kill them?” Eight minutes to the Kraus interview, he said they both suffocated and described how he did it.
Floyd asked Kraus that “they knew it was for them, that they had died at hand?” Replied. “Yes. And it was so fast.”
Kraus said his parents did not ask for killing, but “they knew they were going downhill.” He continued and added, “I am my duty for my parents,” Kraus said in an interview. “My concern for their suffering was paramount.”
Kraus said that his mother was recently injured in the fall when he crossed the road and that his father could no longer drive after the surgery of cataracts.
What investigation did she reveal?
Survey began as an investigation into fraud
The bodies were uncovered in the yard of the firmly packed neighborhoods of small houses, bringing a probe of financial crimes in the head in which the police claim that Kraus pocket benefits of their parents and spending money for themselves.
In 2020, the police were asked to carry out the wellness check after a distant relative reported that a couple had not seen a couple for a long time, said police spokesman Albany Megan Craft. Officers in the house did not find anyone, and the neighbors claimed that a few moved to Germany years ago, said New York Times.
In May, another social security control showed that Krauses did not live at home. Investigators of the Social Security Administration asked the police to help check the Krauses area. The police started an investigation because it suspected financial fraud and looked at the disappearance of the couple.
Floyd said that the story came as a complete surprise. No one reported that the couple had disappeared. The neighbors thought they had moved back to Germany, Floyd said.
“The public never knew nothing until Tuesday, when a number of police vehicles appeared on this street and started looking for a house and dig in the backyard,” he said.
(With AP and New York Times inputs)
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