A farmer in Germany who was convicted of murdering his dad and mom has lost his appeal against a life sentence. Damn the luck. He bashed his father's skull open back in 2000 but said Dad had only been kicked upside the head by a rogue cow, and you know how that most definitely would leave a mark. Then after four more years, later on strangled his mother and said she just, well, had died in her sleep for no apparent reason. No one suspected anything awry. Shit does happen, I suppose. Anyway, the nail in the coffin, so to speak, was when he was charged a year later with chopping up an elderly neighbor who had died of natural causes and feeding the meaty bits to his own pigs. He thought he could lay claim to the dead guy's pension somehow. So since that scheme didn't work out quite as planned and he got caught, he came clean that, yeah, it was he who had actually whacked in Dad's head, finally clearing the bovine reputation. He said that he just was too impatient to inheri...