Rodney Long was a ruthless criminal dirtbag with no conscience or remorse. omaha.com reports that last Friday Long escaped from a minimum-security Iowa prison while serving a sentence for burglary. Long story short, the convict shot a deputy who tried to apprehend him. He then stole the deputy’s car and led police on a high-speed chase, finally taking an elderly couple hostage in their Bedford home. The couple was armed. “At about 2:10 a.m., Jerome Mauderly took a shotgun from the kitchen and shot Long in the chest. Rodney Long was what cops would call a ‘skell.’ Now he’s what we call a ‘corpse.’ At the risk of editorializing a hard news story, good riddance to bad rubbish.