He confessed to killing his parents in a TV interview
Officers were waiting to arrest him by the time the taping ended.
From The Times
October 2, 2025

Eight years after his parents went missing in Albany, N.Y., Lorenz Kraus sat down in a TV studio and told a reporter he had strangled them.

A balding man in a gray T-shirt, wire rim glasses and a fringe of long hair.

Will Waldron/The Albany Times Union, via Associated Press

Investigators found two bodies buried in the couple’s backyard. →

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