Son Confesses on TV: "I Killed My Parents, Buried Them in Backyard"

Franz and Theresia Kraus are a retired couple. In 2025 he is 92 and she is 83. The problem is that nobody has seen them in several years. Their social security checks are automatically deposited and their adult son, Lorenz Kraus, tends to other matters for them. After years of attempting to contact the couple without success, the social security office asks police to do a "welfare check" on Franz and Theresia Kraus. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what happened when police do the welfare check and how their "loving son" Lorenz Kraus ends up on local tv confessing to killing his parents and burying their bodies in the backyard.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.11 Introduction

01:16.21 Man buries mom and dad in backyard

04:36.12 Mountain Family Comes to big city to transport body of their loved one on a flatbed truck

08:59.11 News Anchor gets son to admit murder during interview

14:37.45 Early Luminol story

20:10.37 Body decomposing in soil will cause sinking

25:11.76 Newsman interviews murderer

30:14.33 Suffocated father

34:31.88 Admits killing in 2017

40:13.36 Skeletal remains can breakdown

44:27.65 Conclusion

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