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# ee , Plate visited so often that tefgh- bors thought he lived there. Platt actually lived at 15031 SW 68th Lane in the Spicewood sec- tion of an upper ddle-class de- velopment called The Hammocks. Platt had lots of expensive things. Neighbors saw a chocolate-browna Jaguar, a Jeep Renegade, a white Chevy Blazer, a pickup truck and « motorcycle. ; Platt’s second wife, Brenda, answered the door at the house Saturday. “I'm afraid to say anything,” she said, closing the door. Neighbors. sald Platt and his wife lived In the house with four children. ve Matixz’s daughter, 2-year-old Melissa, was his pride end joy, pelghbors sald. “He mostly talked about his baby,” sald neighbor Tins Brea- nan. “He really loved her. He was ‘ family man when it came to er ; Melissa went to a day nursery at Riverside Baptist Church, 10775 SW 104th St., where Matiz af- tended services vnti] about a year BgO. * “He wouldn't emoke, he wouldnt drink. He would say ace before meals,” said neighbor elen Brennan, who once had dinner with Matix. . The woman who told The Herals about dating Matiz sald she met ‘him at Riverside Baptist Church. They went out for about a month, she said, and then the woman broke it off because she did not. want to make tha.commit- ment Matix sought. She sald that Matix kept pic- tures of his dead wife in his South Dade home, but thet he appeared comewhat detached In bis attitude toward ber. “He told me ebout his dead wife, but it wasn't like he was giili grieving.” she said. A short. time later, Matix got engaged to another woman, one he bed known only three weeks. The woman broke off the engagement. Matix changed churches, joining the Wayside Bapilst Church, and began dating a third woman. They were married in June. “He came for two or three - weeks abd married a pirl that is a member of our church,” said the Rev. Charles Fant, an etsoctate pastor at Wayside, 7701 SW 98th t. “He dido’t come that much after he got married.” _ The marriage lasted about a month. Neighbors sald the woman walked out. : “She's golng through a fot of emotional trouble right now be- cause of the marriage,” sald Fant, who would oot reveal the woman's name. “She realizes she jumped into It and made a foolish decision. She's got a lot of wounds from it.” Herald siaff writers Andres Vig- luect and Dave Von Drekle con- tributed to this report. —_.