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Shotgun-Packing Elderly Couple Ruins Dangerous Fugitive’s Escape Plans with Deadly Shot
http://www.theblaze.com ^ | august 21, 2013 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 08/21/2013 4:01:56 PM PDT by lowbridge

An escaped inmate was shot and killed Monday by an elderly couple he had been holding at gunpoint for around four hours.

Rodney Eugene Long, a dangerous prison escapee suspected of shooting and injuring a Taylor County deputy, broke into a couple’s home in Bedford, Iowa, at around 10:15 p.m. Monday night and held them for four hours, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Mitch Mortvedt said during a news conference.

Jerome and Carolyn Mauderly said Long was armed with a semi-automatic handgun. Long, 38, also disabled the phones in the Maulderlys’ home as he apparently gathered supplies to aid his escape.

At around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, Jerome, 71, was somehow able to retrieve his shotgun and shoot the fugitive dead. The couple immediately called 911 and police responded to their home.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; guns; iowa; secondamendment
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I love a happy ending.
1 posted on 08/21/2013 4:01:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
Don't mess with an old man after his bed-time. We get grumpy when we get tired.

/johnny

2 posted on 08/21/2013 4:03:40 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: lowbridge

“I love a happy ending.”

It’s kind of romantic that the older couple took this jerk down together. It’s really sweet!


3 posted on 08/21/2013 4:05:35 PM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: lowbridge

Stand Your Ground


4 posted on 08/21/2013 4:05:49 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: lowbridge

Rodney Long, now known as Rodney Short.


5 posted on 08/21/2013 4:09:19 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: JRandomFreeper

:{)


6 posted on 08/21/2013 4:09:21 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: lowbridge

Good for them. Like they say, don’t mess with old people, they just may kill you.


7 posted on 08/21/2013 4:09:30 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: lowbridge

Well now, Obama can’t claim that if he had a son ......


8 posted on 08/21/2013 4:12:58 PM PDT by SkyDancer (A white woman would be accused of racism if she gave birth to a white baby.)
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To: lowbridge

And the World’s a better place today.


9 posted on 08/21/2013 4:12:58 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: Beowulf9

Rodney Long, now known as Rodney Short.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Or, ‘Leaky’.


10 posted on 08/21/2013 4:13:33 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: lowbridge

Can someone ‘splain this:

“Long, 38, also disabled the phones in the Maulderlys’ home...”

“The couple immediately called 911...”

More to this, perhaps if I read more?


11 posted on 08/21/2013 4:13:48 PM PDT by elpinta (Jer. 10:23 - It really holds true!)
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To: lowbridge; Bride Of Old Sarge

The Bride and I fully intend to re-enact the scenes of “Secondhand Lions” often.

She’s Garth, I’m Hub.


12 posted on 08/21/2013 4:16:22 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: elpinta

I heard that he cut the land line before entering, and also confiscated their cell phones. Chances are the old man just took his cell phone back.


13 posted on 08/21/2013 4:16:52 PM PDT by brewcrew
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To: JRandomFreeper
I can't fight, can't see to aim a dot, but a shotgun in my hands is a death warrant

I ain't skeered, just desperate.

14 posted on 08/21/2013 4:18:07 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: loungitude

Or Rodney Long Gone.


15 posted on 08/21/2013 4:18:38 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: lowbridge

I hope he wasn’t black!


16 posted on 08/21/2013 4:19:22 PM PDT by tiki
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To: lowbridge

He did a Joe Biden.


17 posted on 08/21/2013 4:19:23 PM PDT by allendale
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To: MeganC
"Morty! How're we going to get all this red goo off the walls?"


18 posted on 08/21/2013 4:19:34 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Carlos Danger for mayor....NYC deserves him)
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To: lowbridge

“I need to go to the bathroom”
seems like a reasonable request- and a good place for hidden self defense


19 posted on 08/21/2013 4:21:08 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Old Sarge

One of the best moviea ever.


20 posted on 08/21/2013 4:21:20 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I'm so conservative I won't even wear progressive bifocals.)
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