Franz and Theresia Kraus are a retired couple.

In 2025, he will be 92, and she will be 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 the 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 
 

Franz and Theresia Kraus are a retired couple.
In 2025, he will be 92, and she will be 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 the 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.
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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&nbsp; &nbsp;

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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Nancy Grace dives deep into the day’s most shocking crimes and asks the tough questions in her new daily podcast – Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor and used her TV show to find missing people, fugitives on the run and unseen clues. Now, she will use the power of her huge social media following and the immediacy of the internet to deliver daily bombshells!

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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan:  Televised Confessesion: 'I Killed My Parents, Buried Them in Backyard'

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