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3 ‘ Se Dec. 27. His father bed sever seen him, Mrs. Matix sald. irs. Matix said that while she Was aware thet her husband had worked with Platt in the landscag- ing business, she had only met Platt. once. She sald that as far as abe koew, Platt and ber husband were pot particulerly close friends. “7 don't know much about that,” ahe said. “We, the family, are as baffied as the rest of the world about what happeoed. We thought the life Bill was portraying waa real and those of ua who had daily con- tact with him didn't koow this other side. We are elf the victims, the agents aod his family.” she “Today I just feel that. BI) is putting us through something we Shovidn't have to go through. We are having to answer questions that we don't have answers for.” Christy Horne, a devout Chris- an, and Bill Mattz hed elo to the west coast of Florida May 47 following a short courtship, she said. The couple had met while paying In a church-sponsored vol- y ball game the previoud March. “He had so open personality. He Was very honest. We ahared the game goals.” Mra. Matix, 29, recal- bed. “He seemed Uke Pastor (Emit) Rey at Riverside (Baptist Church) had sald, that he was a Christian person who wanted to do God's will. But Satan can even get into @ Christian's life. It's a y strug: zie to keep him out.” _-— or Christy and Bill Matix ved to- gether at 1503) S.W. 88th Lane with Melissa, Matix’s young caughter from a previous mar- age. Mrs. Matiz says she saw nothing unusual about her husband during that Ume. She said he thked to col- ject antiques, go deep sea fshing and work with wood. “He enjoyed making wooden toys — airplanes, tractors, ducks. He had a bandsaw and fine tools and what he turned out was very beautiful. He made them for kids and he made them child-proof, so they couldn't hurt themselves. J keep asking myself how could anyone thet makes @ little wooden train for a child have ended up like this?" The marriage came to.an end ss suddenly as it began. Mra. Matix discovered she was pregnant. The pews did not sit well with her bus- d. “TL really believe BIT] fost fUpped out, whatever you want to call {t,. a year ago,” ahe said. Mrs. Matix, who left her bus- band after he announced his dis- pleasure af her pregnancy, sald she filed for divorce ast fall at Matiz’s request. Her attempts to gave the marrisge falled, she said. “T went through my grief back then,” sald Mrs. Matiz, who in March was lald off from her job as a telepbone service representative. The divorce was sll pending when so unsuspecting Mrs, Matix _ Grove past the police cars that cor- doned off the spot where her hus- vata omy band lay dead. On the car radio she heard about what had hap- pened, but the names of the dead were yet to be made public. “I had the same reaction every- @oe did,” she said. That evening, she said, a relative called to gay that a man named Bill Matix had bees killed by the FBI and asked her if tt was her hus- band. “I sald, ‘Ob, no. it can't be.’ But I made a note to watch the 10 o'clock news and when J heard both Bill and Michsel’s names I knew it just had to be. I was stunned. I thought I was dream. a spite an exhaustive police in- vestigation that includes FRI at- tempts to develop psychological rofiles of both Matix and Platt. rs. Matlx doubts there will ever be Any answers. “The only two who know were Mike and Bill,” she said. “All 1 know ie that I made a mistake. Even we Christlans aren't infailli- ble. God protects people even through our mistakes. Fil go on from here and [ll trust io Him.” Still, Mra. Matix says, she dreads that future moment when she will have to tell her son about the day his father died. =