Wisconsin man who killed grandparents sentenced to life in prison
Alexander Kraus appears in Outagamie County court via video conference, June 17, 2020. (WLUK)
APPLETON, Wis. - A judge on Friday sentenced a Wisconsin man accused of fatally shooting his grandparents to life in prison.
The Appleton Post-Crescent reported that Outagamie County Judge Mitchell Metropulos ordered 20-year-old Alexander Kraus to serve at least 40 years minus the three-and-a-half years he's spent in custody before petitioning for supervised release.
Kraus pleaded guilty in 2020 to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the April 2019 deaths of 74-year-old Dennis Kraus and 73-year-old Letha Kraus at the couple's home in Grand Chute. Alexander Kraus was 17 years old at the time of the homicides.
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He tried unsuccessfully to convince a jury during a June 2021 trial that he suffered from a mental disease and couldn't conform his actions to the law.
Kraus told the judge before he was sentenced that he loved his grandparents and that he was sorry.
First-degree intentional homicide carries a mandatory life sentence.