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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 couples 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.
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:01:56 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
Don't mess with an old man after his bed-time. We get grumpy when we get tired.
/johnny
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!
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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.)
To: lowbridge
To: lowbridge
Rodney Long, now known as Rodney Short.
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:09:19 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:09:21 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: lowbridge
Good for them. Like they say, don’t mess with old people, they just may kill you.
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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)
To: lowbridge
Well now, Obama can’t claim that if he had a son ......
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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.)
To: lowbridge
And the World’s a better place today.
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:12:58 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
To: Beowulf9
Rodney Long, now known as Rodney Short.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Or, ‘Leaky’.
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:13:33 PM PDT
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
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?
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:13:48 PM PDT
by
elpinta
(Jer. 10:23 - It really holds true!)
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.
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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...)
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.
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:16:52 PM PDT
by
brewcrew
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.
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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)
To: loungitude
To: lowbridge
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:19:22 PM PDT
by
tiki
To: lowbridge
To: MeganC
"Morty! How're we going to get all this red goo off the walls?"
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:19:34 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Carlos Danger for mayor....NYC deserves him)
To: lowbridge
“I need to go to the bathroom”
seems like a reasonable request- and a good place for hidden self defense
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posted on
08/21/2013 4:21:08 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
To: Old Sarge
One of the best moviea ever.
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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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