BIOGRAPHY -- Page 19
Life went on. Matt’s defense of Kyle Richmond and his business interests finally came to a close. The mismanagement of Richmond Enterprises was dealt with by extensive back taxes and a fine, but no prison time. The outcome was tainted when Kyle’s nemesis, alleged government black ops agent August Masters, claimed to have fixed the case for his own purposes. Soon after, Kyle and his Defenders teammates Gargoyle, Valkyrie and Hellcat were kidnapped at a celebration for his case’s closure. Attorney Matt Murdock was left helpless on the ground after the hypno-gas attack by Masters’ men. [Defenders (1st series) #103-104] Masters had Matt and the other party guests returned to their homes with no memory of the kidnapping. A nagging feeling of unease prompted Daredevil to seek out Doctor Strange, though, and the Master of the Mystic Arts helped jar his true memories to the surface. Daredevil and the other Defenders joined forces to seek out the missing heroes at Mt. Charteris, where August Masters and the Secret Empire made their base. They managed to stop Masters from launching the first strike of a psychic war on Russia, but Kyle Richmond died in the attempt. [Defenders (1st series) #106-107]
Matt Murdock was speaking at an elementary school when a girl named Mary suddenly had a bad trip on angel dust. The hospital couldn’t save her, and Daredevil had to tell her brother Billy that his sister OD’ed. Billy stormed off after telling Daredevil about the local pushers, Hogman and his man Flapper, so DD made it his mission to clean up that corner of Hell’s Kitchen. Things got very complicated very quickly as the Punisher arrived and started murdering the drug mules Daredevil engaged with. Frank Castle’s one-man war on crime had no room for bleeding hearts like 
Daredevil saving the lives of criminals. Before Daredevil and the Punisher could argue further, Flapper was shot from up high by someone other than Castle. Daredevil reached the roof and found Billy holding a smoking gun from his father’s drawer. He swore he tried to fire over Flapper’s head, but Billy was arrested for the man’s murder.
Matt’s senses told him Billy was telling the truth about the warning shot, so he appeared in family court the following day and offered to represent him. The D.A. was pushing for Billy to be tried as an adult, forcing Matt to move quickly to protect his client. Back at the crime scene, Daredevil surveyed the situation. He reasoned that Billy’s revolver was highly inaccurate at a distance, even for an experienced marksman, and yet Flapper was shot through the heart while in motion. Daredevil sought out a higher vantage point, along the same trajectory as Billy and Flapper, and found a water tower where a rifle with telescopic sight could have made the same shot. A spent 
shell casing was at the scene. Matt rescued a nearby junkie named Markie being shaken down by the Punisher and he provided eyewitness testimony that Billy only fired into the air while another man with a rifle shot Flapper. Daredevil thought Flapper’s partner Hogman was responsible but, after Billy was acquitted and Hogman arrested, he heard Hogman deny the shooting too. Hogman’s heartbeat didn’t change and Matt thought he must have made a mistake.
As Matt Murdock began representing Hogman, Daredevil had to keep the Punisher from murdering his new client. Castle wanted Hogman dead simply because he was a drug dealer and didn’t care if Hogman killed Flapper or not. Matt became suspicious that Coach Donahue from Billy and Mary’s school was the dealer’s contact getting the drugs to the kids. He bluffed Donahue into admitting his involvement and arranged a meeting. However, Donahue arrived whacked out on PCP himself and Matt barely subdued the drug-crazed man. The evidence piled up against Donahue, now on life support, and the junkie Markie OD’ed. With no witnesses, the charges 
against Hogman were dropped. Once the case was over, the cocky drug dealer confessed to Matt… he was guilty as sin. It turned out Hogman had a pacemaker that rendered Daredevil’s “lie-detecting” hearing invalid. Billy saw Hogman force Markie to OD and tried to confront him with a gun. Daredevil and Punisher intervened, and Billy chose not to shoot. Hogman was indicted again but this time for Markie’s murder, and without Matt Murdock as an attorney.
As all this was going on, Heather was increasingly concerned about goings-on at Glenn Industries. She wanted to fight for control of her company, but Matt dissuaded her. He told 
Heather she had inherited her father’s company, but not his business sense. Heather was upset at Matt for being so dismissive, as she wanted a purpose in life. Matt told her that he loved her and offered Heather a purpose by proposing and asking her to become his wife. [Daredevil (1st series) #183-184]
Heather refused to give Matt an answer yet or just give up on her company. She went to Foggy 
instead for help, once she realized Glenn Industries was making explosives illegally to increase their profits. Matt overheard their discussion and shadowed Heather and Foggy as they went to Glenn Industries. After Mr. Spindle of the board basically admitted their activities to Heather and challenged her to do anything about it, Foggy sent her home for her safety while doing his own investigating. Foggy asked too many questions and was brought before Eric Slaughter. He tried to bluff his way through as a new enforcer in town named “Guts” Nelson, but Slaughter ordered him killed. Fortunately, Matt was there, as Daredevil, and hit the lights. When the lights came back
on, “Guts” Nelson was sitting atop a pile of bodies and only Turk and Slaughter were left. The ever-enterprising Turk decided he was now working for “Guts” Nelson.
Turk and “Guts” Nelson went across town to Fisk Tower, so Turk could introduce this new talent to the Kingpin. Once Turk started running his mouth, Daredevil overheard the address out by the pier where Kingpin was using the bombs from Glenn Industries to blow an incoming ship. While Daredevil dealt with Kingpin’s goons at the pier, “Guts” Nelson had to talk fast so that the Kingpin of Crime didn’t have him murdered on the spot. Fisk’s guys were reporting the operation to him by radio until Daredevil cleaned their clocks, and so Matt acted on a hunch when he finished. Daredevil got on the radio and gave the Kingpin a simple message: Don’t mess with “Guts” Nelson. Foggy took the cue and talked his way out of Kingpin’s office before sending his “number one guy” Turk on a one-way flight to Chicago. As amusing as it all was, there were still consequences. One of the crates Kingpin was trying to hijack contained radioactive materials which burst open as Daredevil fought with the goons. This radiation was the same type as that which blinded Matt Murdock years ago. [Daredevil (1st series) #185]
[Note: It should be noted that Kingpin apparently did not recognize Franklin Nelson, the former D.A. of New York or the law partner of Nelson & Murdock that he ordered assassinated five issues ago.]
Matt decided it was in the best interests of justice to bring down Glenn Industries. He gathered evidence of fraud, negligence and contribution to various others crimes before providing it to Maxine Lavender over at the D.A.’s office. Glenn’s board got nervous and hired Stilt-Man to retrieve the evidence and lean on Lavender. However, Wilbur Day was robbed by Turk, who made himself over as the new Stilt-Man to get back at Daredevil and prove himself to the Kingpin. Day 
got his revenge by telling Daredevil about a weak point in his armor, sabotaging the gyros and sending Turk to the ground far below. The D.A. prepared a fourteen-count indictment against Glenn Industries, and so Matt prepared to serve as Heather’s defense attorney in order to show the court she was ignorant of any wrong-doing and incompetent as an executive. With her business destroyed and nothing left to cling to in life, Heather relented and accepted Matt’s marriage proposal. What a happy couple. [Daredevil (1st series) #186]
All was not well with Daredevil, though. Exposure to that radioactive isotope was throwing his senses into overkill, leaving him unable to screen out enhanced sounds and smells afflicting him. He sought out Stick again, just as Stick and the Seven of the Chaste were targeted by the Hand. 
To help him recover, Stick placed Matt in a sensory deprivation tank, communicating with him solely through telepathy. He helped Matt understand that the effects of the radiation were only temporary both times he was exposed to it. It opened him to the possibility of enhanced senses, but that potential lay within every man. Daredevil emerged from the tank to find Stick struggling with the Hand’s Kirigi until the rest of the Seven brought him down. [Daredevil (1st series) #187-188]