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The opportunity was there, Some avestigators are gkepti- “Someone living in # $100,000 “home in the suburbs and driving & Jaguar doesn't sound ike a survi- valist to me," one federal agent said of Platt. “Id say they were wore capitalistic. They. would do anything for moncy, tacluding “killing peopie.” Upon diecharge, Michael Pte | refurned to Yuma in 1978. On the vist, he exchanged “war stories” with Mary Sette’ hosbarnd, an #-Marine with four combat tours is Vietnam, Platt guizzed Aim on survival: —,- ane -Beblad the trenqulllty was r mystery. The Platts built a six-foot mound Gutedde the house, ft looked tke a busker. When seighbore asked about it, Platt would gometimes say he was bullding a elite for his children. . Cher times, he would say the dirt - was. {ors cesspool. He promised ta get rid of It. A few mboths before his death, neighbors moticed the mound had dise . Survivallsts common- ly alld such bunkers for food and weapon storage. . 1 » of of * * pometime - beiween 1999 and me E983, the FRI now geliever, Platt went to Ohle. There i he sought ovt Matiz, bis old Army badd ‘On Dec, 1985, someone gtabbed fo death Matix’s wife, Patricia, in @ Celunibus bospital | ‘where she worked. At the funeral, Patricia’ 5 mother remembers an introda “What did you do when you were—-wyh, called Michael. dropped out ef C-130s in the jungie? How did you catch animals far food? What evasive actions did you use to avoid the enemy?” a a Whes Michael Platt moved to Miami, be brought with him a.sew wife and and his afd Army fatigues. He wore them around the | peighborhoad, a secluded South Dade gireet four blocks from where he would dle. Regina Lylen was a Say, plain: Woking womas with sandy blond hair, glasses and @ well-to-do father. Everyone Nked her. “De You love her or do you Jeve ber money?” a friend ooce se aeked Bim. “L hove ber,” Platt anawered, “The money isn’t important* Quiwardly, Mike and Re ae Rved 8. bumdnum pin te te subur in a typical County ‘bome with burglar bart. Tbe Platia bed three eer : Ryan, now &, bborheod. i etudled et Miarnl-Dage Community College, enrolling in business coureee aioe’ th awitchin i Jandace 2 grade polat iene ad eredita, ; Snough for an associate's degree, which ba never bothered to pick BPR tenet Satrneeeree Capt. Antone Lanata is ng te fink oat Michael ta ie tying to | abouts on the day of the murder. Tener: aaerreree *T'm not ust oing to-eleer tase off one them becauge | | Bheg "re dead,” the captain said. “But both men have proves them- selves to be murderers.” In the spring ol 1684, SHI Matix ‘came-ta and pined Platts landscaping business, . a ‘They became faseparable. They went On out-of-state ditions and deep-sea fishing trina. Piatt caught a §8-Inch ealifish. Matiz caught and mounted a five-foot hammerhead shark, After Matix’s arrival, the eat tage of Mike and a Reagie Plat deteriorated. He bad ovis te a weighboe auld, Regina cerned Ges. unting ex asked her: why é aid we heye these children anyway?” Fe Regina told the lawyer that her husband waz playing around with guor and that he and Matix were fees out of state on weekends. thought the ey were doling ‘something Uiegal." the lawyer wal Regina also told the lawyer of s threat ashe received from ope of ber husband's girifriends. “This female told her three things: One was that her husband wea going to et a divorce. Two was that chael. and this woman were | deeply In love. And three was that, "You'll be gone by weton Wick hired a pri raey & private investigator to trece the move- ments of Platt and Matix. “They had some eort of warchouse in the ' worth end of town. They'd appar i ently pick up thelr work orders and ge to r work.” 3 These devs, Columbus Police Wek se said he did not know what ‘was Inside the warehouse, Cryin i Regina told another friend: “ burband keeps threatening to iit mon New. .13, 1984, Regina Platt was treated at Bapt a Hos ital‘s emergency room. Allegedly, it was & suleide sttempt with 14 antiade pressan ressant gills. The hospital ton- ad a computer entry. but po epeciics. There wat no police mttorney Wick nays Regine told hin she ence took “an overdose of pills On Dec. 2, 1984, Regina ran into a friend ata shopping mall. “She ssid, "He. le gorse to te oe ae pak going to ki et Bee, 31, 1084, Regina | pitt a aloe of shotgun blast to the mouth, She was aude ig her bed. Her boshand sald be war eep the wel hed Bo pounds, The Teenage ebotgur, from. trigger te mu waa 25 inches lon : The. “Svigger pati ot #1 & trigger “aas well withia ‘Borrege, bucgned to tee onane gn re-examine euthoritie—had-raled the death | a ouivide.