A man confessed during a televised interview to killing his elderly parents and burying their bodies in the backyard of their Albany home eight years ago.

Lorenz Kraus, 53, sat down on Thursday with CBS6 for a half-hour interview in which he admitted to suffocating his parents, Franz and Theresia Kraus, in what he described as “mercy killings."

His confession came a day after police exhumed two bodies from the backyard as part of an investigation into Social Security fraud — the couple had not been seen in years but continued to receive benefits, news agency AP reported.

“They knew that this was it for them, that they were perishing at your hand?" anchor Greg Floyd asked during the interview. “Yes," Kraus replied. “And it was so quick."

Though initially evasive, Kraus eventually ad

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