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¥D-350 (Rev 5-651) (indicate page, name of N@wspaper, city and state } THE Co ____ (Mount Chpping in Space Below) LUMBUS DISPATCH ‘Creep’ led to life **"* ‘of crime, >, Matix’ S a * Submitting Office ‘brother : says By Michae! J. Be Tens | Lansta said Matix is not necessarily . prime t are r eckin, William R. Matix entered a life of crime after ° ae nichin unusual things’ about Matix 3 atthe being influenced by his best friend, Michael Lee | ude after his wife's death. —— - Platt, who played on Matix’s grief over his mur- dered wife, Matix'’s Brother said yesterday. . Paul Matix said he saw his brother cry “many “Platt was creepy. I only met him once, but it — times” pver the murder of his wife. Adding to the was enough,” Paul Matix, 35, told The Dispatch esterday during a telephone interview from Kil- , ee een vexes. M 34, and Platt, 22. killed Piease see Hiiam Matix, an a were ki Friday during a gun battle with FBI agenig—in CRIME next page * ee = a Religious magazine called William R. Matix Matiz “dedicated father,” Page 3 Ee es Se Miami. Two FBI agents also died, and five other- agents were injured. The FBI] said Matix and Platt, whose wives € both died tragic deaths, may be linked to at least a _ half-dozen bank and armored car robberies in Dade | County, Fla., in the last year. Police have said the robbers killed two people and shot at least two more during the holdupa. ees t Miami investigators said they may reopen the case into the 1984 death of Platt's wife, Regina, who died from a shotgun blast te the head, The shooting was ruled a suicide. And Columbus police Capt. Antone Lanata yesterday said a “whole new door” has opened in the investigation concerning the 1983 murder of Matix's wife, Patricia, 30, and her co-worker, Jayce McFadden, 33, research assistants at Riverside Be Hospital. They were bound, gagged and stabbed to - death in a hospital laboratory on Dec. 30, 1983. +4 Columbus bus police have not solved the killings thee *