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FD-350 (Rev §-8-61)° (indicate Page name of newspaper City and state } ‘ (Mount Chopng in Space Below) THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Riverside victim’s ~ “"”” in FBI melee Classification. Submitting Office By Michael J. Berens Dispotch Police Reporter ihe feporh 3 William R. Matix, a former Dela- A man killed in the Miami shootout had ware, Ohio, man who police say killed two FBI agents Friday near Miami, was partied to one of two technicians who #ere gagged, bound and stabbed to death in Riverside Hospital in 1983. Matix, 34, and Michael Lee Platt, 32, died ina gun battle. Two FBI agents also died, and five other agents were wound- Matix and Platt had been linked to at Jeast a half-dozen bank and armored car robberies in Dade County, Fla., during the last year, said law enforcement offi- cials. 3 Columbus police said federa! offi- tials told them las1 night of the death of Matix, once considered a possible sus- pect in his wife's slaying. Matix's wife, Patricia, 30, and Joyce McFadden, 33, research assistants at Riverside Hospital, were slain in a hos- pita) laboratory Dec. 30, 1983. Columbus i ve not solved the killings. Capt. Antone Lanata said last night, been married to one of the hospital technicians slain in 1983. = ta or Lar Q a. “We looked hard at the man. We fol- lowed him around. We looked for gir!- friends.” He said Matix told police he was at home watching his infant daughter, Me- lissa, when his wife was murdered. Lan- ata said Matix’s story had some “human nature inconsistencies.” Other police officials said Matix's death could be a turning point in the case, but they will not be sure until they have sorted through FBI information. Police sources said their strongest suspect is not Matix but another man who was a construction worker at the hospital. The man, never charged, was linked to the crime by circumstantial evidence, police said. Police said the man owned a pair of work boots that matched a bloody boot print found in the lab. A search warrant iled with Franklin County Municipal Court said the worker had talked to both women the day of the murders. Mrs. Matix, 30, and Joyce McFadden, 33, were bound, gagged and repeatedly stabbed jin the face and chest in the first-floor medical research laboratory in what police said then was an apparent robbery. Matix and McFadden's husband, Larry, were questioned by police but were never publicly called suspects. The women were killed with the same weapon, described by police as a knife with an inch-wide blade. Authorities in both Florida and Co- lumbus described Matix as zeligious and