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Mercy Killing or Murder? Was Lorenz Kraus Delusional or Justifying Evil?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News Commentary, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Mercy Killing or Murder? Was Lorenz Kraus Delusional or Justifying Evil?

Lorenz Kraus said he did it out of mercy. But the facts — and his own words — suggest something much darker.

In this segment of Hidden Killers Live, we dig into the psychology behind Kraus’s televised confession to killing both his parents and burying them behind their Albany home. He claims it was a "necessary act." Prosecutors say it was second-degree murder.

We dissect the possibility that Kraus is operating under a god complex — one where his need for control and righteousness overtook reality. His phrasing, posture, and tone in the CBS6 confession video offer clues, but they also raise disturbing questions:


  • Did he kill his parents with their consent — or was that invented after the fact?


  • Is he mentally ill, or simply manipulative and calculating?


  • What role did financial dependence and isolation play?


  • And where does the line fall between assisted suicide and homicide with motive?

This isn’t just about murder — it’s about how people twist morality into justification. We analyze it all, in real time.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

0:08.4

Lorenz Krause is this guy's name.

0:12.7

He's now charged a second-degree murder for killing his parents.

0:19.0

And then burying their bodies in the backyard. And we're watching what he confessed

0:26.5

to live on television here in the conference room at CBS 6 in Albany last week. I'll give the interviewers some credit here.

0:39.7

He certainly is getting this out of him.

0:42.3

He's doing the work of police pretty well.

0:45.1

So I don't think there's going to be a lot of question here in terms of...

0:48.7

Do you think the cops said, hey, here's some things you should ask him?

0:52.3

No.

0:52.4

Or the cops?

0:53.0

No, you don't think so?

0:54.5

This guy, from what it sounds like, he just showed up at the TV station.

0:57.6

Can you imagine?

0:58.8

I keep, I don't know what the interviewer guy's name is, and I'm not trying to denigrate. I ought to call him Herb. He seems like a Herb. He feels like a Herb. It's like, Herm Maxwell and the latest on the six-team investigates.

1:12.4

You know, he's probably sitting at his cubicle and... Herm Maxwell and the latest on the six team investigates.

1:12.3

You know, he's probably sitting at his cubicle.

1:15.0

And then they're like, uh, that Krause guy, uh, he's in our, he's in the, the entry right

1:21.6

now.

1:21.9

He wants to talk to somebody.

1:23.8

And then they said, well, the conference room is open.

1:26.6

And then they grabbed a photographer and they ran in there and they did this. I mean, I can't imagine that he had a ton of time to prep. No. Yeah. I'm just wondering, do you call the cops and say, hey, this guy's here, blah, blah, blah. Or do you just do the interview and see what happens? Well, they did. Somebody called and said, hey.

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