A 53-year-old Albany man who admitted on local television to killing his elderly parents and burying their bodies in the backyard pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and concealment charges.

Lorenz Kraus was arraigned in Albany City Criminal Court one day after his taped confession aired on CBS6 Albany . In the interview, he told anchor Greg Floyd that he strangled both parents in 2017 inside the family’s Crestwood Court home and buried them behind the house. He described the killings as mercy acts.

Kraus is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of concealment of a human corpse. He was ordered held without bail at the Albany County jail. His attorney, Assistant Public Defender Rebekah Sokol, entered the not guilty plea on his behalf. Kraus did not speak during

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