A man confessed to killing his parents eight years ago in a television interview before being arrested as he left the studio.

Lorenz Kraus, 53, made the startling admission during an interview with a local TV station a day after their bodies were discovered by police.

He called their deaths ‘quick’ and described how he let his mum rest her head on her dead husband’s chest before killing her.

Kraus defended their deaths to TV anchor Greg Floyd as mercy killings for his parents who were ‘going downhill’. Police uncovered the bodies of Franz and Theresia Kraus, and have investigating why the pair were still receiving Social Security payments despite not having been seen or heard from in years.

Their son then emailed local news channel CBS6 and other outlets a two-page statement, the stati

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