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_ lenebeatt page ferne of j ? 1 BERALD | “iam « Florlda Co EEE te Pg | Ki — ~ i la 2h, 2986 | Killer kept his ~~ ark side hidden=..... septs _sondnamnnnsinne . dang By SYDNEY PF, FREEDBERG — Semnse is staff Writer Michael Lee Platt, # hazel-eyed fanatic po-one knew, was a crack commande with a doomsday vision, schooled in the evil art of mayhem. . o high school, he wanted to be an FE! ent. ' For Michael Platt, 32; doomsday arrived 43 days. agoon # suburban Miami street, when, finally, he was shot to death Hke a mad dog. He was trying to steal the car of two murdered FE] agents. Federal investigators have not estab- shed that Piatt or hig Siain partner, Witiam Matix, 34, belonged to any extrem- jet survivalist group, but they omer weet Aaa ee rea 5 “a a en The FBI Shoot—out Last in a series . Gsegunt h. They are got yet sure what happened to the urban arsenal they stock- piled, apparently Neanced from. bank hotd- u ips. What is emerging slowly is the strange dark Ufe of Platt. His second wife was terrified of him. The day before she supposedly ahot herself with a shotgun, she told a friend, “He's going to kill me.” Michael Platt compelled his wife, against ae Ake AR St hs A RRP: Sa ie thei cov clase unser mpeg B#.. AK armed. ot De 1 a ag = en ’ gala, “I i wide-recelver Lance Rentzel, He told peo: 1A a Ne RN IRR NE Na BR RN TNR Nerval bea tenes * a 4 her will, to have an affair with bis. trusted buddy. Matix, her divorce lawyer says. Platt was fiercely anti-Catholic, aman reared as & military brat, a specialist in military [9 survival, and &@ man. who lisd #bout dying. He said he had cancer. He did not. - When Mary Stutts, a family friend, first heard about the bloody shootout that took the Uves of Platt, Matix and the two FBI agents and wounded five other agents, she | thought Mike would be the FRI 7, aot the villain, aan “What went wrong? Mike aspired to be a CYA or an FBI agent. He was almost fanatical about his body. He sever smoked, drank or tock drugs. He always had auch - high aspiracious.” a Pistt, bora fn San Diego on Feb. 3, 1954, grew up etrictiy Navy, marching with bis moody chief petty officer father from muiNtary hase lo teittary base. An a boy, Mike admired Dallas Cow he used to play football with him. - Piait's father, Marion, believed iy strict “wwwnemne Please tut to PLATT FIBA