NY man charged with two counts of murder after bizarre on-air confession to killing, burying parents in backyard

A deranged Albany man who made a chilling on-air confession to killing his elderly parents and burying them in his backyard is now facing charges for the heinous crimes. Lorenz Kraus, 53, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and two counts of concealment of a human corpse for the slaughter of his parents, Franz and Theresia Kraus — who disappeared without a trace eight years ago — during a court appearance Friday.Kraus, who was a motormouth during a jaw-dropping exclusive interview with CBS6 on Thursday, was tight-lipped during the hearing.“You buried them in the back of your house in Albany?” CBS6’s Greg Floyd asked during the interview.“Yes.” Kraus, 53, chillingly answered.The twisted son described the deaths of his ailing parents as mercy killings.His mother was injured crossing a road, and his father could no longer drive after cataract surgery, Kraus recalled.“You suffocated them? You suffocated your parents,” Floyd asked in a series of stammering back and forths, where Kraus tried to backpedal on the confession and invoke his “Fifth Amendment rights.”“Yeah, basically,” Kraus said, nodding.“My father, after he died, my mother put his head on his chest, and after a few hours, I finished her,” Kraus said.He then detailed that he had choked his father with his hand, then strangled his mother with a rope.It then took him several days to decide to allegedly bury his parents’ bodies in the backyard of their suburban home, he explained.Stone Grissom, the TV station’s news director, told The Times-Union that the chilling interview came about when Kraus emailed a two-page rambling, conspiracy-laden statement to news outlets that contained his phone number.Grissom called Kraus, who told him he had buried his parents in his yard.“When I asked if he killed them, he said, ‘I plead the Fifth,’” Grissom said.Grissom said he promised to post Kraus’ statement on the station’s website if Kraus agreed to come in for an inter...