He was arrested at the study of the study: an American admits the murder of his parents during a television interview.

He says he killed his parents because it was “his duty.” Lorenz Kraus, a man who lives in the United States, was arrested on Thursday, September 25, outside the study of a television channel, when he had just confessed the murder of his parents in 2007, in an interview, reports Association Press.

He also admitted to having buried the bodies in the courtyard of his house, north of the state of New York.

“I did my duty with my parents […] They knew they were doing badly, “he said during this interview. They were fragile due to their age, but were not affected by incurable disease.

“It was so fast”

It was Lorenz Kraus himself who contacted the television channel and it was the media teams who proposed that he comes for an interview.

If he was reluctant to give information at the beginning of the interview with the death of the two elderly, he finally confessed the facts. He even said he had suffocated his two parents. “It was very fast,” he said.

The day before, the bodies of both parents had been found in the garden of a house in New York. This discovery took place after a fraud investigation, while local Social Security had benefited from the couple every month and had no news for years.

Two disappearances never reported

Actually, it was Lorenz Kraus who played during the last eight years. In addition, no one had pointed out the disappearance of Franz and Theresia Kraus, 92 and 83 years old at the time of the events.

Therefore, he was charged at age 50 for second degree murders and the concealment of corpses, then stopped. During a brief appearance before the court on Friday, the lawyer committed by Lorenz Kraus declared himself innocent. The suspect said nothing.