Son Confesses on TV: "I Killed My Parents, Buried Them in Backyard"

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Franz and Theresia Kraus are a retired couple. In 2025 he is 92 and she is 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 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

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.0	I, for one, like the idea of having what's called a family plot.
0:19.0	Family plot can either say that you're, maybe you have a space in a local municipal cemetery,
0:27.4	or maybe you have a place in your church's graveyard, or it can mean that you actually have a plot set aside for burial of your
0:44.0	loved ones on property that perhaps has been in your family for years and years.
0:53.0	I don't know if the word quaint quite applies here, but there's something, I think, on one
0:59.4	level that's kind of comforting.
1:01.7	That is, if you're buried on your family's property, you'll be perpetually taken
1:07.7	care of.
1:10.3	Today on Bodybacks, though, we're going to talk about a fellow who literally decided to
1:16.9	bury his mom and dad on his own property in the backyard eight years ago, after of course allegedly murdered i'm joseph got morgan
1:35.3	and this is body max there's something comforting dave about I think on one level about perpetual care, maybe.
1:47.8	I think it's more of a comfort to those that remain as opposed to those that are passed on,
1:52.9	because I don't think the ones that have passed on truly have an awareness of this sort of thing.
1:59.1	Not going to address it spiritual, but I think scientifically, you know, they don't, they don't have an awareness of it.
2:05.2	But it's kind of a, maybe it's a quaint notion, like I said, you don't have these very often.
2:11.8	And, you know, you, I got to tell you a quick story.
2:17.5	There was a place in Atlanta, and you'll find this kind of interesting.
2:23.8	There was a place in Atlanta, a neighborhood in Atlanta that's called, actually called Cabbage Town.
2:29.0	I don't know if you've ever heard of Cabbage Town, Dave.
2:31.9	But it's...
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