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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 3
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of killers—
Saeed
Dillinger, “Pretty Boy’ Fieyd,
“Baby Face” Nelson and the other
daring bank robbers who warred
with federal G-men in the 1930s,
Hardly anyone bad beard of the
two men wha made April 11, 1986,
the bloodiest day in FB) history.
Aad the people whe thought they
knew William Matiz, 34, and Nb-
chae] Platt, #2, were wrong.
“ft jast doesn't make any sense,”
gaid Metro-Dade Police Maj John
- Farrell, bead of detectives. “Peo-
ple don’t just turn up all of the
sudden and start murdéring and
_ Friends, neighbors and relatives
Gescribed Platt and Matix as bud-
dies from Korean military duty
who ran a lawn care business and
lived quiet, suburban family lives.
Matix bad been profiled recently in
# church magazine that described
how his born-again Christian faith
helped him deal with the brutal
saying of his first wife.
bio detectives are Laking a hew
. Wok at the Dee 90, 1085, stabbing
@eaths of Patricia Matiz and an-
mher woman af a Columbus bospi-
tal. They now think Platt may have
dove it. Meire-Dade police are re-
examining Ube Christmas Eve 2094
shotgun death of Platt’s Urst wife,
which had bees ruled a suicide.
FBI agent Gordon MeNeil is re-
cowering from chest and haod
walhtuger M-14 automatic rifle Ma
““srielded during the furiaus_chaat-
eit that killed two FBI agents,
wounded five others and, finally,
» ended the Hves of Platt and Matix.
wounds fr | sfiring’aeemiats.” They
wounds from ibe rapid ising hetnone
And began the MYSte Tyme
and trying tg find cut. Were the
indicators there?” Farrell asked.
“Were there people who knew them
who should bave been aware of
what they were doing? Were there
law enforcement alficers. who
polssed something they shouldn't
bave?
Autharities bere think if was
Matix and Plait who surprised Jose
Collare, 30,00 March 12 at an iso.
jaied rock pil pear ihe Evergiades
frequented by target shooters. The —
killers ordered him isto @ canal,
shot bir four Gimes.and left him for
dead, taking Collazo's revolver, ri-
fle and black Monte Cario.
Collazo dragged bimself three
miles for help. _
Police say Matix and Plat¢ may
be Unked to the disappearance of 2
$$-year-old man last seen when be
left home Oct. § io go target-shoot-
ing, to & skeleton in the rock pit
area. and io seven or more af-
mored tar and bank robberies
zince jast Oetober. os
The common threads in those
cases are two well-armed masked
mea, sometimes dressed in combat
fatigues, stoles getaway cars, com-
mando-type efficieacy and “colé-
blooded shooting without
Metro-Dade Detective Sgt Tony
“Mooheim, investigating the “rock
pit .
ing for “neo-Nazis, survivalists, ex-
guys”.
ang,” kad figured be was look- ©
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week, Was-shocking. -._*wwie.,
FBI agents on surveillance, one
of several they had done in. the
southwesi neighborhood where the
men usually struck, saw Collazo's ~~»
Monte Carlo about #30 am. Apri!
i, :
They forced the car into a tree
men inside fired Ubrough the
windows, then jumped gut
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