Murder for Social Security Or Humane Help? The Shocking Lorenz Kraus LIVE TV Confession!-WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Follow the money — and sometimes you find a killer.
In this Hidden Killers Live segment, we explore how what began as a Social Security fraud probe spiraled into a double homicide investigation when investigators uncovered the bodies of Franz and Theresia Kraus in their backyard.
For years, their son, Lorenz Kraus, told neighbors they had moved to Germany. Meanwhile, he continued collecting their government benefits — until a welfare check by SSA triggered a police search at 6 Crestwood Court.
What followed:
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Two bodies buried behind the house
- A bizarre on-camera confession at CBS6
- Murder charges, and zero remorse
We dig into the financial motive behind the murder, why these crimes are alarmingly common, and how digital benefit systems make it easier to hide the dead — until the paper trail gives way.
If you want to understand how murder and money intertwine — and how a bureaucratic audit unraveled a seven-year deception — this is the story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.3 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:13.1 | Let's move on to another interesting one, another interesting confession that actually came out on live television just last week. Here's the situation, |
| 0:22.3 | because if you're just tuning in, this is one of those stories that doesn't really sound real at first. |
| 0:27.3 | Earlier last week, police and federal agents showed up at a quiet little home on Crestwood Court in Albany. |
| 0:36.3 | They were there on a financial crimes warrant. Nothing violent, |
| 0:41.2 | just suspicions about Social Security payments. Still going to an elderly couple no one had |
| 0:46.2 | seen in years. Neighbors were told they'd moved to Germany. Plausible until they weren't. Fast |
| 0:53.1 | forward a day and crews are digging in the backyard and by Wednesday |
| 0:56.8 | they uncover one set of human remains. Thursday morning a second set and then this is where it turns |
| 1:02.9 | their son Lorenz Krause walked into the local CBS 6 station sits down for a full-on camera interview |
| 1:09.8 | and calmly confesses to killing both of his |
| 1:12.5 | parents back in 2017. This is after the bodies had been discovered. He knew. He told them. And as soon as |
| 1:19.6 | the camera stopped rolling, police arrested him right there in the station parking lot. He's now |
| 1:24.5 | charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of concealment |
| 1:28.4 | of a corpse, but he's pleading not guilty. And what you're about to see is the unedited interview |
| 1:35.0 | that set all of this off. A man calmly detailing how he allegedly ended his parents' lives, |
| 1:41.8 | buried them behind the house, and then lived off their benefits for years. |
| 1:46.9 | We're going to play the full thing. It's not graphic, but it's deeply unsettling, and we'll talk about it |
| 1:51.6 | as we go through all of this. What's interesting about all this, it's not necessarily a case |
| 1:59.0 | where it appears to just be financially motivated. |
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