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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 3

79 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 12, 1986 · Broad topic: General · Topic: FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 · 79 pages OCR'd
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350 (Age 88-81) ~) free. Sage. nether of ° perwanece!, Oy end gtee? SUN SENTINEL * 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- © Bee gee SHount Citpoing mp Space Betow) . Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. ‘BI ® baaemanitae™™ coon Page 148 k | tries to BROWARD : x 7 | —neemeonanes ree April 20, 2ORS6 make sense e “~_ of duallives =. ders a MIAMI. — Most everybody in 777 ow were looking al Gheir live > —~~Re learn otherwise, be said last ® j<|America Knaw about Jobn 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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