Limbaugh read a letter claiming that dead officer’s wife and children were raped and mutilated.

Heard on the Rush Limbaugh show

[cjl2005]

At the end of today's show Rush Limbaugh read an e-mail from a friend saying that a police officer had committed suicide after coming home and finding his wife and children raped and mutilated.

This sounds like it is something out of a movie, I know.

Either Rush or the media is wrong. So far, none of the stories have mentioned the rape and murder.

According to this story: Standing on the stoop of an uncle's house in Baton Rouge, Thomas Accardo described a police-obsessed little brother while Paul's wife, Anne Accardo, stood by, covering her mouth with her hands to stifle sobs.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/20050908/ts_chicagotrib/astressfultollonhaggardcops

I'll be following this story on my blog. http://caseylartigue.blogspot.com/2005/09/limbaugh-is-correct-98.html

[wideawake]

That's the most horrible story coming out of this, if true. I pray it is not.

[andyk]

I heard it too. I'm not sure what he was reading it from.

[NonValueAdded]

It was an email from a Louisiana friend of Rush, from the Slidell area I believe. Rush has talked about that friend on a number of occasions in the past week or so. I doubt very much that Rush would read it if there was any doubt of its accuracy. He isn't Time, Newsweak, or SeeBS don'tcha know.

[RightWingMama]

I heard it too. I'm not sure what he was reading it from.

A friend of his who lives there told him the story.

[HAL9000]

Good catch.

[mylife]

I heard Rush say it, but I have no idea if its been reported in the media

[RoseofTexas]

I just got home and was looking forward to reading the RUSH LIVE THREAD....what happen? No live thread today?...bummer, I was looking forward because I caught a snippet of the show before he went on break and I had to run out the car...something along the lines of,"THERE is one person who love George W. Bush...that's GOD"..what happen? Why did rush make that comment? Rush sounded awfully depressed.

[Cboldt]

* bump *

Another point too - may have been a police officer from another jurisdiction (nearby, of course), or may have been the 2nd of 2 NOLA PD who committed suicide.

I am not suprised the media and politicians would attempt to cover it up, at least until some semblance of civil order was restored.

[Ed_in_NJ]

It will probably never be mentioned by MSM -- makes the murderers look bad.

[NavySEAL F-16]

Very misleading headline. Rush didn't claim anything. He read an e-mail from what he considered a trusted source.

Oh, by the way, welcome to Free Republic.

[bonfire]

The Chief of police in NO debunked the rumor of the slain 7 year old girl in the Convention Center today.

I sure hope he's telling the truth.

Not sure which, if any, of these "stories" to believe.

[cripplecreek]

I heard it too and Ive been enraged about it ever since.

[Trust but Verify]

I'm trying to make sense of this, so if I have something wrong, excuse me. There seems to be a discrepancy bewtween the email Rsuh referenced and the story linked here. The story references Officer Paul Accardo's wife standing near his brother during the interview. If the officer's wife and children were found raped and mutilated, would she be standing next to the b-i-l stifling sobs?

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Hi.

[smonk]

---The Chief of police in NO debunked the rumor of the slain 7 year old girl in the Convention Center today. ---

I'm glad that horrific story isn't true. do you have a link?

[ClaireSolt]

Reporting the crime is not PC. The Civil Rights Industry objected saying it made them look bad. There is lots of crime being reported in the other cities these people went to.

[seahawk]

I think this email that Rush was reading was about the other police officer that committed suicide, not the one you are finding. There has never been any news articles that gave the name of the second officer so I'm assuming that that is the one Rush is referring to. Accardo and his wife were separated and of course she is still living. Accardo is the only officer named in any news article. Rush said that the policeman returned home to find that his wife and children had been killed, mutilated and raped. Hope this explains.

[bonfire]

No. He said it during the press conference along with all the other emergency officials.

[smonk]

---No. He said it during the press conference along with all the other emergency officials.---

I'll happily take your word for it, then :)