Overview

• Lorenz Kraus, 53, pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of concealment of a human corpse and is being held without bail.
• Police recovered two sets of remains from the backyard of 6 Crestwood Court, believed to be Franz, 92, and Theresia Kraus, 83, pending forensic confirmation and cause-of-death findings.
• In a WRGB interview aired Thursday, Kraus described suffocating his father and strangling his mother in 2017 before burying them, and he was arrested as he left the station.
• Investigators say a Social Security inquiry in May triggered a multi-agency search tied to suspected benefits fraud, alleging Kraus had been using his parents’ payments.
• Court documents place the alleged killings between January 7 and September 30, 2017, and the defense has raised potential challenges to the TV interview’s admissibility.