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od ae , . 1S BO a Kidde,” the ix y foun Soged ina in a ‘wooksielt beblad ihe bed. - Police f found powder Surns on * ae dead Woman. Sugpicious, po Hee alec said they tested Piatt, He tested negative. “I always suepect- wt Piatt, aod that’s as much as 1H /eay,” sald police Oiicer Mark Huet “What you fee} and what tai prove are two different things, At the Ome, Platt told police of bis wife's. brief affair with Matix. Platt didn't eeem upset by It, police ssid. _ Based on everything Pve seen, wyer said. “i think be [Platt] Aired megue to de it.” = a-taeetty where Wilktam Matte was thet morning ig unresolved, anein2ORRIE vmnermenngqeomenninnereeeenhcheeseegebbeattomntmcnt Matix paid # condolence call at the wake. He wasn't upset, « selghbor recalled. “Nelther was Platt. “Pim gure be was BOE saddened feo much by her death,” Borrego aad. “He was thinking about tiivorcing. He may may nol have been too distraught over i.° Regine was beried a Roman Catholic, Platt, bere a Catholic, resented the church. “He thought ft was hypocritical and stupid," said Mpry Stutts. * * & A few days after Regina Platt's death, Michael Platt took the kide to Disney World aod Sanibel. Js the Gext iew Weeks ay ea & third wife and moved arty Sw BSth Lane ob # cul-de-sac ta a vary gqalet, upper muddle class develop ment caled the Hammocks oat oo ociare. Mitchell abou; Su @ buying her “fo foot re chi Lady Miichell out of North Caroling “They told me cash was Bo object,” Mitchell gal. “They Wanted me £0 take $25,000 for the boat. They wanted it real bad, sot , to run arog Pa sure. srenga, BEW Wile, toid “ people that her husband had quit oe ‘ Rnes. The the landzcaping business because he had circulatory cancer in biz rd chemicals, ahe * ¢laimed, would aggravate the can- . Doctors, she gaid, had even : considered ampulsting his foot. sarcastically, Plati responded; Platt even wore 2 leg brace sometimes. An autopsy indicated ho evidence of cancer. The new wife explained other things to another neighbor, “Mike ‘bad an insurance policy that - would pay y Off because be was - titally disabled, Mike sald he wae more lucrative because he had feft the landscaping business.” Oe the iast dey of bis life, April 11, 1886, Michael Lee Platt eas out of the house at 7:55 a.m. He drove Ris new stepson to high achool, along with a friend, Allan Koolmeyer. On the car radio, they listened 10 F100. “Mike seemed fine.” Koolmeyer eat. Ga the fadio, there was talk af terrorism. Libyan terrorism. Casually, Koolmeyer spoke of his research paper. Flatly, almost “iF i were you, | wouldn't worry about the paper. The way things are going! in © Libya you might bapose Platt's aew wife was an attrac: anata ton sien bours tater, Michael poe ee FO uve, pad WOLD ie Ber RN OA with ao teen-age eon. Her name ware Brenda. They rented. Platt quit the landscaping business. His young aon, Ryan, told a neighbor after his mother's death: “Deady BAS & KR GI MOgGyY Bow “aew HES’ Founa buy me @ three whee! motorcycle. echoed ber brother. “We Bave pew money. Police pow Believe Platt was ving well Beyond Bis upp in: forthe children soreen,” a $2,500 robot idren and two all-ter-. a vehicles, Among other vehi- slez fegitiered to Plat! were & chocolate-brown Jaguar, a brown a white Chevy Blazer. Sometimes he drove a motorcycle. Ryan's exter | enting Ble lacome by rob- banks with Matix. e Sy rob € Platts had a televidon with Lee Fiat was Sead.