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WILLIAM RUSSELL MATIX, ET AL for any sustained period of time, expressing to relatives and friends a longin imentation and romance of servic b7L On December 30, 1983, PATRICIA MATIX and a companion female co-worker were murdered (stabbed) at their place of employment, The Riverside Methodist Hospital Research Foundation Columbus, Ohio. b7k MATIX's father, RUSSELL MATIX, suffered a stroke on the day that PATRICIA MATIX was murdered, and his health deteriorated until his death from terminal cancer in April, 1984. During this four month period, WILLIAM MATIX traveled back and forth from Columbus/Delaware Ohio, to Cincinnati, Ohio (RUSSELL MATIX's home). He became increasingly active in his local church, professing to be a "Born Again" Christian, and giving public testimony of his religious convictions and his ability to overcome the stigma of PATTY's Murder. MATIX received a sizable insurance claim payoff (exact amount unknown but believed to be in the $180,000 range) from an existing life insurance policy on his wife, Social Security benefits resulting from her death, and also received monthly employees compensation payments as a surviving unemployed spouse. The insurance settlement was far less than he had anticipated and he was bitter, blaming the lack of double indemnity award on the poor investigation conducted by the Columbus, Ohio Police Department. MATIX related to many of his friends that the police were harassing him as he was their prime suspect in his wife's murder. He invested the major Lb he portion of the insurance award in a tmist fund for his daughter 7¢, women after PATTY's death, b7t A Be MATIX moved to Miami, Florida, in mid summer 2984, a buying a one-fourth interest in Blade Cutters, a lawn trimming | b7e er service owned by MICHAEL LEE PLATT, brother Gen: _