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Afier 10 minutes of furious fire """R's hard to put a fingeran. said, there was silence. People began ereeping out of their houses ~<theoae look at what bad happened. They saw agents lying in the ‘wireet. Then, a quick burst of fire. Agent Ed Mireles, bis clothes ecated in crimson, his forsarm fractured by the M-14, had crept up fs the car of slain agents Benjamin Grogan and Gerald ewe. Platt, wounded in the foot, was intently trying to get it started. Rélreleés, too burt to use his shot- gun anymore, poked his six-shot-ne- volver Inte the car aad emptied it fato the two: “Not the same William Matiz.* Doris Miller said the next morning. ah can't be” oe - She had met the “sincere and. very religions” mao at Riverside ‘Baptist Church and wrote an wplift- ing story about him for the March issye of Bome Life magazine. I was titled “Victory Ont of Tragedy. Coristy Matix beard the pews about the man she had met at an- other Baptist Church, married two months later then split with twe months later. “] bave the same exact questions everyone else had," she said. “How could it be? Why. didn: anyone kpow?"’ Ywo Columbus detectives are here on the 1982 hospital slaymes. FBI agents around the pation are carrying ost Director Willlam Websier’s onder for “a eradlete- rave investigation of these men,” Tapokesman Paul Miller said. in the days since the shoot-out, a jot more i being leareed * - Matiz's neighbors in roral Dela a ware, Ohio, aaid be liked to shoot gang in his beck gard. Sem ~ umbus detectives. remember that Matix reacted strangely when Patricia was sizin. Neither drank nor srioked. * * Neighbors dkin't recall) any guas. Chrlgty Baltix did't remember | Police Capt. Antone Lanata but it wasn‘) the likely reaction of a family man to pews that his wife - and mofher of his infant bad been bound. gagged, slabbed 16 times and bad ber ‘ring finger cul off. Matix collected up to $580,008 in life insurance, The Columbus Dis- palch reported last week. Last Be- Ceember be filed = $$ milion wrongful death suit against the hos- | pital where his wife worked. ; The FBLigte Agril it seized four “weapons from -Platt's home. They “ditin’t release details, From -Pdatis’s borne, records say, they seized Collazo’s. 38-caliber re | ypiver,.o 257-Magnam, « sawed- off shotgun, a 22-caliber rifle, a girall machete, two walkietstkies Christy, Matix recalled that be and hal appeared to be disguises, flew into a tage whan she took their But what made two suburbanites baby bof be ha® ‘abandoned to Ul go brutal’? Matiz's bouse on Easter, Her @i- . ¥oree lawyer, John Thorson, mild + Matix behaved 0 irrationally dur- # ing a March 12 deposition that he had prepared a request for a psy- chiatric examination of Matix, Miller’s profile said Matiz hac ap alcoholic, divorced father, that he jeined the Marines out of bigh school, then the Army tbree years jaler, He bad ® severe stuttering problem until recent yours. Platts suburban seighbars said last week be had argued loudly wih Regina in the weeks before ber death from a .12-gauge shotgun blast of Christrrias Eve i984. Platt / Was at Bome. He sald bis wife was ‘despondent opr their marital Flatt remmarried several waeks er, - : Platt, one of three sons of a ce | reer Navy officer, had grown up in _ Gillérep: parts of the country, radugted frorh high scboot in -suma, Ariz, and earned a teo-yvear associate degree from a Miamu community cellege alter Army “We're taking our time sow, ; we're getting very in depth. But J don’t know,” Farrell said. “We're looking for rational answers about two psychopathic killers. There may not be any.” rseernen cee Phe “landscapers had confort- Leable homes. | — a Rincentaitheaanae 7 , ae