New York man charged with parents’ murders after TV confession | New York
A man confessed to killing his parents during a recent interview with a local television news channel in New York, and then buried them in their backyard, and led the authorities to accuse him of two murders.
Lorenz Kraus’s extraordinary interview with WRGB released PN shortly after the police’s family discovered two bodies in Albany’s house in Albany – and about eight years after his family was seen alive before he was disappeared.
53 -year -old Kraus, during the interview with the WRGV anchor Greg Floyd, “I buried them in their properties,” he said.
Floyd asked: “Did you bury them behind your home in Albany?”
Kraus, “Yes.” He said.
“Yes, basically,” he said, although Kraus tried to call himself against self -blame during the speech.
Kraus later announced that he used his hands to drown his father to death and used the same thing to do his mother.
“My father, after he died – my mother put his head on his chest, and I finished him a few hours later,” he said, and a few days later he buried the bodies.
Immediately after the interview, the police arrested Kraus outside the WRGB studios.
As the Local Times Union reported, the authorities were first examined by the alleged financial crimes. Moving on a clue in the field in May, the Social Security Administration asked the police to control Franz and Theresia, who were thought to be Kraus’s parents – 92 and 83. The officers were still benefiting in apparently, but they did not see any signs of them.
On Wednesday, the researchers began digging in the backyard of the Kraus family and found a series of remains. On Thursday, they said they found another person’s remnants. Local Police Chief Brendan Cox said that the remains were confident that Franz and Theresia Kraus were the ruins.
Lorenz Kraus contacted several news organizations without arrangement to sit with Floyd and claiming that his parents had mercy. “They knew they were going downhill, Kra Kraus said.
He said how Theresia was injured from a street and Franz could not drive after surgery for Katarakt.
“I did my duty to my family, Kra Kraus said. “My concern about their misery was very important.”
Moreover, Kraus said that communities should “expand the law to” people to cope with such problems “.
After his arrest, Kraus appeared to court on Friday and claimed that he was not guilty of each murder accusation and concealed a body. He was kept without bail.
Local Regional Lawyer Lee Kindlon said journalists Kraus’s confession to WRGB helps prosecutors, but physical evidence and witness expression would be very important.
. Times Union He reported that Kraus graduated in 1994 as a political science expert from the University of Siena and called Valedicorian. Times Union confirmed that he graduated in 2009 with a master’s degree in the field of Business Administration.
In February 2020, the police said that a relative was looking for Kraus to control his parents. New York Post. A neighbor told the officers of the Kraus from the United States.
As the Times said, before the arrest of Thursday, Kraus was perhaps known for his best “uncertain ilen presidential campaign and his bağlı commitment to conspiracy theories and anti -Semitism”.
WRGB’s station manager Stone Gissom said to Associated Press personally looking for Kraus to ensure that he was unarmed after he got into an interview. Grissom also said that he was a civilian police officer with an interview in the front lobby of the station.
Rebekah Sokol, a local assistant public defender representing Kraus on Friday, said that he had “very serious concerns ında about the WRGB interview, because he seemed to him as a police query”.
Associated Press contributed to reporting
