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♪ this is whats left of the home that joe stack burned down. is it hard to come back here? >> thats hard to answer. its not as hard as it was initially. it was really hard right after it all happened. >> reporter: cheryl says in the months before he became more angry with the irs and audit. he started to blame her and daughter margo for all his problems, and he became increasingly strict with margo. cheryl talked about divorce. >> he said we were the cause of all of his troubles. but that was ...

Cheryl played piano, joe played bass guitar. two years later, in a small ceremony in austin, they married. joining me was cheryls 12-year-old daughter, margo. did he ever talk about how she was angry with the government, angry with the irs? >> when we were dating, he did talk about the irs. he just cant like them. >> reporter: but actually, joes emotions ran much deeper. in the 80s while living in california, he was part of an anti-tax movement, even forming his own tax exempt home church. his r...

"i choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at big brother while he strips my carcass," he wrote. i choose not to ignore what is going on all around me. i have just had enough. today, that manifesto still haunts cheryl stack. what do you say to people that may be listening to you and thinking, how could she not know about this rage, about this manifesto, about this anger? >> i knew that he was angry, but i thought he was angry at us. about the irs, i didnt know that he was violent. how could ...

What would soon become his suicide mission. he wrote "desperate times call for desperate measures," and violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. this is whats left of the home that joe stack burned down. is it hard to come back here? >> thats hard to answer. its not as hard as it was initially. it was really hard right after it all happened. >> reporter: cheryl says in the months before he became more angry with the irs and audit. he started to blame her and daughter margo for all...

Both loved music. cheryl played piano, joe played bass guitar. two years later, in a small ceremony in austin, they married. joining me was cheryls 12-year-old daughter, margo. did he ever talk about how she was angry with the government, angry with the irs? >> when we were dating, he did talk about the irs. he just cant like them. >> reporter: but actually, joes emotions ran much deeper. in the 80s while living in california, he was part of an anti-tax movement, even forming his own tax exempt ...

Before, he became more angry with the irs and the audit. he started to blame her and her daughter, margo, for all his problems, and he became increasingly strict with margo. cheryl talked about divorce. >> he said we were the cause of all his trouble. >> wow. >> but that was the same time he was giving me a birthday card and saying youre the best thing that ever happened to me in my whole life. >> then came their final night together. >> after we had dinner, we sat down in the family room and he...

What would soon become his suicide mission. he wrote "desperate times call for desperate measures," and violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. this is whats left of the home that joe stack burned down. is it hard to come back here? >> thats hard to answer. its not as hard as it was initially. it was really hard right after it all happened. >> reporter: cheryl says in the months before he became more angry with the irs and audit. he started to blame her and daughter margo for all...

Or anything, like, where is he going, this is scaring me. >> did you think he might do something that wasnt right? >> i kind of had, like, a feeling that something was going to happen, like something bad. and i told my mom that i wanted to leave, and she said okay. and so we left. >> cheryl took her daughter to this nearby ramada inn. she never heard from joe again. the next morning this is what cheryl drove up to. the morning of the fire, cheryl and her daughter took refuge at a neighbor hes ho...

Over my shoulder at big brother while he strips my carcass," he wrote. i choose not to ignore what is going on all around me. i have just had enough. today, that manifesto still haunts cheryl stack. what do you say to people that may be listening to you and thinking, how could she not know about this rage, about this manifesto, about this anger? >> i knew that he was angry, but i thought he was angry at us. about the irs, i didnt know that he was violent. how could i possibly know he would do a ...

Joe and cheryl got audited in late 2008, and once again, joe was in another battle with the irs. a battle he wasnt going to lose. joe stack started to document what would soon become his suicide mission. he wrote "desperate times call for desperate measures," and "violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer." this is whats left of the home that joe stack burned down. is it hard to come back here? >> thats hard to answer. its not as hard as it was initially. it was really hard right af...