00:00So again, this man, right here, Lawrence Krauss, arrested outside of our studios yesterday.
00:07You can see the police putting the handcuffs on him.
00:09This is just after he confessed to us, a chilling confession that he gave to us
00:12about killing his parents eight years ago in the city of Albany.
00:16Here's a clip from that confession.
00:19How did you do it?
00:20Yeah, I can't talk about that.
00:22Well, you've just told us that it was at your hand.
00:25Were there drugs involved? Was there a suffocation?
00:28You suffocated them.
00:30You suffocated your parents.
00:33Yeah.
00:33That was the best way to take their lives, through suffocation.
00:38Basically.
00:39Which parent did you suffocate first?
00:43My father.
00:44And after he died, my mother put her head on his chest.
00:48And she was there for a few hours.
00:51And then I finished her.
00:54We'll go to J.T. Fetch.
00:55He is live for us at Albany City Court.
00:57That's where he was arraigned this morning, Mr. Krauss.
01:00J.T., what can you fill us in on here?
01:04Yeah, Greg, good afternoon to you.
01:06The justice system moving swiftly in the hour since your exclusive interview with Mr. Krauss
01:11yesterday right here on CBS 6.
01:14Mr. Krauss now facing two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of concealment of a corpse.
01:19And as you said, those charges, they all stem from the deaths of his parents, Franz and Teresa Krauss, who were last seen alive in 2017.
01:28The judge today specifically mentioning the time between January 7th and September 30th of that year.
01:33This all comes after a stunning confession by Krauss himself.
01:36In that exclusive interview with our Greg Floyd, Lawrence Krauss admitting to killing his parents.
01:41He was taken into custody by Albany police outside CBS 6 right after that interview.
01:46The human remains found in the backyard of the family's Crestwood Court home in Albany believed to be those of Franz and Teresa Krauss.
01:53We do know that Lawrence Krauss wanted the public to hear his side of the story and judge him for themselves.
01:59And that is why he apparently gave that exclusive interview to us here at CBS 6.
02:04Now, in the courtroom this morning, he appeared calm and in relatively good spirits, considering the nature of what's happened here.
02:10After the arraignment, we heard from both Albany County District Attorney Lee Kinlan and Krauss' public defender, Rebecca Sokol.
02:17I think the words last night spoken on Channel 6 speak for themselves.
02:21But ultimately, we have to build a case not just on what he said, but physical evidence and witnesses and everything.
02:30So that's the next phase.
02:32And certainly the stuff he said to Channel 6 last night probably is going to provide some additional avenues of investigation.
02:40I do have a lot of questions about the events that occurred yesterday afternoon, about really how that came to be.
02:47Were the police involved, a lot of questions in that front that might take me in different directions in an investigation sense.
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