This is not true--I was at Paul Accardo's service this week and his wife was there--they had no children. I didn't want to ask about details, but I heard that maybe he found his parents dead. I do not know if it is true.
Maybe it was not Accardi that they were talking about. I sure would like to know the truth, this second hand info is very disconcerting. Could you possibly ask around and find out what really happened?
According to the obituary in the Advocate of Baton Rouge, Accardo left a wife, Anne; his mother, Catherine; a brother; a sister; and eight nieces and nephews.
It seems that whoever is spreading the "murder/rape" story needs to do some fact-checking. By most accounts, Accardo was a perfectionist personality who had sunk into serious depression as the full magnitude of the disaster became clear.
I heard it was the other officer who killed himself. Although I do hope it is not true at all.