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Dae ¥ “Things were tight. Pmean very tight. We didn't have money,” Mra. Emerick said. “We. don’t pave anything.” a j illiam was.a shy boy who stutterad, she * paid. Classmates often taunted him, but he found 8 way to make it an advantage. He became the class comedian, his mother eaid. “He could make anyone laugh at the drop ” of a hat,” she said. By the time he was.10, Matix was working in hayfields for 75 cents a day to help support the family. During school months he worked until ] a.m.ona chicken farm, she said. Although William. made fun of his own speech problem, he was too embarrassed to try out for the high school! basketbal! team because of it, his mother said. Before gradua- tion he enlisted in the Marines without telling his family. “He said, ‘I love my country.’ He said, “Mather, don’t try to stop me,’ " she said. Visions of glory turned sour when he became a cook in the Marines, Mrs. Emerick gaid. After he left the Marines, he worked in a manufacturing plant in Troy, Ohio, for a year before joining the Army where he became a military policeman, she said. While attending @ speech school in Washington, D.C., he met his first wife, Patricia. Matia's mother said he left the Army, ( " went to a cooking school in New York and a Bneat-cutting schoo] in Toledo. In 1976, he fearried Patricia. Be moved to Columbus ater, after landing a job as a grocery store Meat cutter. Later, the couple Delaware. sos “xe Christmas 1982 was filled with joy, Mra. Emerick said. William and Patricia spent the holidsy in New Madison. Five days later Patricia and aco-worker were bound, gagged and stabbed to death at Riverside Hospital. Patricia was buried in a pants suit, her Christmas gift from William. Wiliam moved to Florida because he wanted to get rid of the pressure, his mother said. Also, Michael Lee Platt had offered him a jch, she said. ' * Mrs. Emerick admits there is a side of her ' Lae tA gon she never saw. He remarried in F LOT IGe without first telling his family. Not until the day after hia death did Mrs. Emerick learn he had an infant son. She may never know what changed her “son, she ssid. Her only hope mow is that people will forget and forgive. There will not be a funeral service for Mr. Matix, hie mother said. The funera] home was told to bury the body and notify the family later. Matix now lies in an unmarked grave in Rew Madison, still close to his mother's eart. Second wife says she doesn’t grieve MIAMI (AP} ~ The estranged wife of William KR. Matix said she does not grieve for her husband and thinks the “FBI did me a favor by taking him out.” Christy Lou Matix, 29, said she had no idea her husband may have been involved in six bank and armored car robberies. “I have the exact same questions every- ene else had,” she said Wednesday. “How could it be? Why didn't anyone know? He was a master of deceit and disguise.” Matix, 34, was known as a born-again Christian who liked making wooden toys. He married Cristy Horne in May. Within two | months, Mrs, Matix, then pregnant, moved out. “I didn't understand why F left,” she said. “It went against everything I believe in about family and children. Now I know. The Lord took me out of there.” Sommers