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nine emeneeler enn tae etree eles a Ce eae gun, and the other put a rifle bullet into his groin as he lay on the ground. Re- Mharkably, the guard lived. (Police esti- mate that the robberies netted about $100,000.) The men fied in a car that they soon abandoned, getting into a white pickup truck. The FSI has traced the car they td] abandoned to a 25-year-old man who disappeared in October after telling his family he was going targetshooting in @ rock quarry. (A skeleton recently dis- covered near the quarry is thought to be his.) The white pickup truck showed > up again, The men who shot Jose Col- Jazo and stole his black Monte Carlo were driving it. After the shoot-out, the FBI swooped down on the Matix house, less than two miies from the gunfight, and carried off guns and ammunition that Christy > Matix says she never knew existed. As she packed up recently, she placed a wooden sign that read, “The Matix's” on top of a carton of stuffed animals. “| 2 know I'm going to have to tell my son,” she said, sorry that the boy might not be able to grow up with his half sister, Me- lissa. The shoot-out, Christy says, “an- Swered a lot of questions for me,” She's now undergoing counseling, but she has no tears for her former hus- band. “i cried my tears,” she says, “for the FBI agents and for Bill's famity.” 3 - ~— Written by James S. Kunen, reported by fon LaBrecque ‘us?