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.
This is true--he had laid out his plans for down the road. He wasn't planning on being a police officer forever. He was going to stay on the force for a few more years and then venture into other things. He was an intelligent. mild mannered guy. He had gotten his real estate license and the media said they had just gotten approval to due a story about it 3 days prior to the hurricane. I heard he was trying to save animals during the middle of all the chaos and also feeling helpless when people were begging him to help them.