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>> and an angry manifesto left behind. here in austin, texas, 53-year-old joe stack made a missile of his small plane. slamming it into an irs office. a final expression of a simmering rage. on the surface, joe stack seemed like a good guy -- sound and perfectly sane. so what led this regular joe to become what some would call a domestic terrorist? what drove him to kill on february 18th? >> hes like the poster boy for chill. >> rick furley was a band mate of joe stack. stack played ba...

here in austin, texas, 53-year-old joe stack made a missile of his small plane. slamming it into an irs office. a final expression of a simmering rage. on the surface, joe stack seemed like a good guy -- sound and perfectly sane. so what led this regular joe to become what some would call a domestic terrorist? what drove him to kill on february 18th? >> hes like the poster boy for chill. >> rick furley was a band mate of joe stack. stack played bass and was the kind of guy you could co...

>> reporter: and an angry manifesto left behind. here in austin, texas. 53-year-old joe stack made a missile of his small plane. slamming it into an irs office. a final expression of a simmering rage. on the surface, joe stack seemed like a good guy, sound and perfectly sane. so what led this regular joe to become what some would call a domestic terrorist? what drove him to kill on february 18? >> he was like the poster boy for chill. >> reporter: rick furly was a band mate of joe stac...

He was really good the keeping that to himself. in my case and you know, i can only speak for what i saw, just very demeanor that it takes to write something like that, i never saw that. and you know, im just -- this has been such a shock because it just -- it was totally out of character from joe stack that i played in a band with for three years. >> when billy says rick, it was totally out of character. what was joes character when you were playing in the band together? how did he comport hims...

Years ago but you had an opportunity in recent months to catch up with him. what was he like at that time? what is his demeanor? can you sort of try to uncover the man that joe stack was a little for us here? >> well, the last time i spoke with joe was about early december and he was the same joe stack that he had been three years that he played in my band. you know, he -- didnt seem distraught or anything like that. just, you know, regular easy going joe. >> rick, weve got pictures of the band ...

Billy, at the time that you had met him, he was, if this is in fact his writing, theres no reason to believe its not, that he was in the middle of a very tormented period in his life. he said this note, he was trying to write it as a form of therapy. there isnt enough therapy in the world that can fix whats really broken. also said he couldnt gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. have you read any of this note? what kind of insight does it give us as to what ...

>> just some pictures of the band standing together it looks like in and theres a picture of joe wearing the cowboy hat we have seen him wear. rick, billy said he got no sense from joe the last time he saw him in december that anything was wrong. did you have get that sense from him? >> never. its been longer since ive seen joe but this is nothing we plan on this -- i didnt see it and im not real sure you know what to think about all of this. he was hiding or had this buried deep inside of him s...

Neighborhood here in austin, had his own private plane, seemed to be living a comfortable life and seemed to be happy with the life he had. >> all right, thank you, david. more insight into joe stacks life, including if there were any warning signs of what he was about to do. were live with his band made, billy eli and drummer, eric furly. three of the missionaries are back home in idaho this morning. nearly 200 people were there to greet them with cheers and balloons and hugs. the other mission...