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a mai Loorder ta collect, 4 ve, Platt was ever ie cand Platt had a pact to kil each “Rnd despite charscterizations 0 mas aS ereedy with "an. insatiabl appetite for money,” records show th state of Ohio is siill holding share tha $4,000 he never botherpd to collect. The Crime Vielims program awarded Matix $1280 to reimburse him for pari of his wife's funeral expenses. There was a nolation in the jije thal Matix would not get more money, largely because of the size of the insurance be received. rime Vielims program pended his infant daughter @ bith * more than $4,000, for which Mati needed to fle guardianship papers n Meam! as recently as two. months go to remind him it was still holding che money. and urged him te complete ihe “fairly easy procedure’ that would enable him to reeeive the money. Maux never replied to twe such levers Also contamed in thal hie is ad October 1984 letter ta the crime. vir- {ums program from Columbus Police Deputy Chief CN. Spier, saving that “after careful vestigation of the vie- Ume husbands .. we hate net esiab- lished any facts that would indicate either is responsible fer these crimes.” Detective chief Capt. Antone Lan ata said his department had developed nothing since that time to change his mind, “You know, { could pin this on fim very easly UT wanted to, juet te clear the case.” Lanata said. "But f want to be comfortable with the case before Records show the stale wrete Matix do that. and it's going to take a whale! lot more than what I've got sow." Lanata said Matiz was never! seriously considered as a suspect in the kilings and said police kept him under surveillance for a time. Langia Was later quoted as saving Platt was a suspect in the Riverside killings, Dut Lanata fold The Plain Dealer that Columbus police hed no evidence - Glic at the Ume of the slayings "+. As far ag (he suspicion that Matiz other's wives, the Miami detective . ‘quoted in the Herald as saying that later denied making any such pom- ment. a Yeporter suggested — “Sithey might have and I told him that it Was sirange that both thelr wires met untimely deaths, Anyone with any Intelligence would think Ht wal ‘range. but ay to whether they had C1 AP tamathine a “T never said hey had a pact," Mow Sov said. “The. ah