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diene First of o series 9 se ; MARTIN MERZER reid Senior Winter UMBUS, Ohio « George Buchanich saw something in Willam Matix's eyes, something te still can define, something evil, He saw this.al the worst Pessible moment: when his daughter, Patricis. introduced Matix as the man she soon would marry. Buchanich shivered, and when Patricia and @itham ieft for a walk i the park. Buchanich turned io hig wife, end his voice trembled. “Somebody follow them,” Buchanich said. “He's going to burt our Patty.” Eight vears later, Patricia, 39, was. dead. Her throat Aad been cut. She had been stabbed 14 times. Her body was stuffed in @ refrigerated room at the “olumbus hospital in which she worked. A co work- «B30 Was shin. And mow, Witiemn Matix ib dead. riddled by saliets in a savage Miam{ gunfight with FBT agents April 1]. Two agents. were Killed and five others wounded. Also killed was Michael Lee Platt, Matix’s pariner in crime. Soc Matix, 34, and Platt, 32, are suspected in a series i liar A ha D5 Spine nnn We nt 2 if a iqmaccate Page Aete g! MReegiene cf, aot ete . THEE MIAMI BERALS Mou Cigong » Soace Bee) | Miami, Fl orida [ cerrerercer ncaa I ER BBs Pa ge WR _ Fea aA fe April 19, 1988 ait EClvy Oda vv ers €yes . et = won St te, Ofce [ _ MIAMI esters i WILLIAM MATIX scared his fiancee’s father. ‘He's going to hurt our Patty,’ her dad said. Later, Patty was murdered. PN of South Florida bank and They also might have conspired to ki each other's armored car robberies. wife, police say. Maserati © Buchanich, & seems. had sensed what others are only now learning: Wilam Matix was not the well-balanced, passive man he appeared to be. There was another side to Matix, perhaps a side thal was fast perwinatiog at the Ome Buchanich met him, that later was to flower in brutat violence? ong quiet Rendall street —- and, possibly, in a Columbus hospital laboratory. Police questioned William Matix. afler his wife died. They were not completely satisfied with bis atl or his attitude or his refusal to take a He-detector test. But they did not charge him. No hard evidence, aw ae Eieiete re moe x they aatd. No SEhnilive proor ke Was anyihing bul a peaceful family mas. Now, a5 Inends and relatives in his home state search their minds for explanations, @ vastly different picture of William Matix is beginning to emerge. it is # picture that, lke a mosaic, must be pleced together. No one, even those closest to him, kivew baa? a about Max. oly t interviews with friends, neighbors and relatives reveal these broad outlines: @ He was unusually shy and withdrawn, uncom monty secretive, He never tokt bis family-ofa_son Please turn fo MATIN (224