Posted on 09/09/2005 1:22:32 PM PDT by 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
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.
I heard Rush say it, but I have no idea if its been reported in the media
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.
It will probably never be mentioned by MSM -- makes the murderers look bad.
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.
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.
I heard it too and Ive been enraged about it ever since.
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?
Hi.
I'm glad that horrific story isn't true. do you have a link?
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.
No. He said it during the press conference along with all the other emergency officials.
I'll happily take your word for it, then :)
I'm guessing the friend was passing along a rumor. Paul's obituary doesn't mention any children, only his wife Anne. Of course, communication being what it is, it's probably best to take any news from the area with a grain of salt.
Kanye did it.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003480.htm
Here are some of the myths, including the 7 yr. old.
Patrolman Celestine, a former narcotics officer and savvy street cop, shot himself Friday in front of a colleague after being ordered to take a day off due to stress, police officials said.
Rush never said that -- a caller from LA told him about the incident. Try getting your facts straight.I was listening -- were you?
several days ago I was listening to a local talk radio station from Baton Rouge when the media officer's suicide was first reported. the host, who knew the officer, said "I just got some terrible news...", and, as I recall, said that "he went to his home and found his wife dead..."
so it looks like the (apparently false) murder story was going around right from the start.
Hope he's right but to be honest I don't believe too much any of the local officials there have to say. There is a lot of CYA in the air.
Rush's friends whose email he read from live across on the other side of Lake Ponchatrain from NO, where they own a fish farm. He has spoken of them several times before, particularly since Huricane Katrina. Perhaps that is the Slidell area, I don't know. I must profess ignorance of the towns thereabouts to know that much detail ...
Tell you what: if he's lying about that little girl, I don't care. I just don't want to know. The news about that little girl was just more than I could take.
I would imagine there are alot of rumors,... the MEs and doctors that will process the bodies must be counted on for the truth,... for those of you not familiar with those parts[Miss. delta/bayou] , as a Northerner, I got the sense[over many visits] that reality can be "squirrely" down there and we may never know what happened
Hurricane Katrina left him with little more than his black SWAT uniform, but Patrolman David Harris has little sympathy for his 300 colleagues who fled New Orleans as the deadly storm targeted the city. ...
The loss of 300 officers when the city needed them most, severely affected rescue and law enforcement efforts as New Orleans descended into lawlessness in the days after Katrina unleashed her wrath on August 29. People who you call friends turn their backs on you. They leave while we have killings, lootings and rapes, and when people need to be rescued," said Harris. ...
The storm's emotional toll on the city's residents has not spared its police force. Two officers committed suicide, one of them after finding his family dead in his shattered home. ...
Rush ought to keep quiet unless HE KNOWS IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE
All knids of stories will be coming out of this mess
I visited the area once and I was creeped out. Couldn't wait to get back home. My sister and I still shudder over the fact my relatives PREFER to live there!
Thanks ---I had read that article but I didn't think that this was the one because it mentions that he was ordered to take a day off due to stress and shot himself right then in front of a colleague. How would he know what happened to his family if this was the same one????
I am very sorry -- these comments weren't meant for you.
Well, "debunking" isn't an all or nothing proposition either. The debunk could range from nothing happened to the victim was 8, not 7 years old.
The chief was also on with Geraldo at the Convention Center - said there were 30,000 people, no food, no water (Which I take as meaning ran out of food and water, not that none was ever delivered).
In my mind, the story is still very murky - the rush to bury stories of violence rubs me the wrong way.
I watched him with Geraldo. Also watched those same people being fed earlier.
Fair enough. I take it back.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479975/posts
GOod catch. It is AFP, and no officer or position is named. But dang,
The storm's emotional toll on the city's residents has not spared its police force. Two officers committed suicide, one of them after finding his family dead in his shattered home.
This is an absolutely horrible thing, but we need more information. At this point we don't even know if this is true.
Yeah - which is why I was trying to convey that I didn't think the chief was lying when he said "no food, no water." I think his comment can fairly translate to "out of food, out of water," not necessarily that none was ever there.
I'm just wary of his "debunking" of a story of the rape and murder of a 7 year old. "That's not true" could be taken many different ways, from "there was no rape of anybody under the age of 18" to ... well, use your imagination. Nobody at the presser tasked him to report the facts of an incident.
The poster of this tidbit is WRONG! A caller in the 3rd hour told Rush this story. Some of you freepers act as if you don't know Rush very well. The poster of this tidbit is new today!
The poster is right. I listened to the show myself. It was a letter from the same friends that Rush often speaks of who own a nursery on the far side of lake Ponchatrain.
I went to Paul's service here in Baton Rouge on Wednesday. His wife Anne was there. I didn't want to ask any questions--I just gave her a hug and told her I know it must have been horrible for him to be in the middle of all the turmoil.
I have heard that he may have found his parents dead, but I did not want to ask.
From eyewitness accounts there was a lot of evil crap going down in the CC. I doubt he's telling the whole story also. It will all come out in time.
By the way--Paul and Anne had no children.
Well somebody better tell the Times-Picayune and Brian Thevenot, staff writer. Because in Tuesday's (9/6) paper, he writes about AK Nat'l Guardsman Mikel Brooks giving him a tour of the Convention Center and pointing out the bodies. In that article Thevenot writes, ...Then he shined the light on the smaller human figure under the white sheet next to the elderly man. "That's a kid," he said. "There's another one in the freezer, a 7-year-old with her throat cut."
Looks like somebody's lying.
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