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"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 ...

"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 ...

Simmering anger. a deadly attack. >> i didnt know about the irs. i didnt know that he was violent. >> reporter: and a wife left searching for answers. >> how could i possibly know he would do anything like that? ♪ i still love joe. radio: its mattress discounters 4th of july sale...

She said okay. so which left. >> reporter: cheryl her daughter to this ramada inn. she never heard from joe again. the next morning this is what cheryl drove up to. the morning of the fire, they took refuge at a neighbors home. it would be there that she would discover the fate of her husband on the local news. >> they interrupted the house fire to show that a plane had crashed into a building. >> reporter: how did you react when you realized it was his plane and it was him? >> well, i dont thin...

Complete and utter shock. rewrote violence is not only the answer, but is the only answer. i dont know who that is. i dont know that man. i learned a lot being up in the air with joe. one of the things i learned up there is that the sun is always shaping on the other side of the clouds. it might be a really dark day. it might be a terrible, terrible day, but on the other side of those clouds, the sun is shining. >> reporter: coming up -- >> he never gave any idea that he was involved in murderin...

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 his problems, and he becam...

I still love joe. i dont think that joe was a bad person. >> reporter: it took some time for cheryl stack to get to this point. for two years, she has struggled. but has found comfort in her music and her faith. >> i have been more sad than mad. suicide is so painful on so many different levels. then you add the public factor, the public suicide. >> reporter: it was february 18, 2010. an angry and violent joe stack set his familys house on fire, then drove here to the georgetown municipal airpor...

>> joe stack, joe stack crashed a plane into the irs building as well. we have anti-government, anti-tax people. we have the recent release of a handbook designed by al qaeda to train loners in small cells. they have a pipe bomb similar to one used here if in fact it was one. let me say this. i would point to smaller rather than bigger. and what i mean is, as deadly as this was, this was not a sophisticated type of device that would be beyond someone who was committed who could have access to ha...

husband. >> his wife has never spoken about what happened until now. battery-powered brains. an experimental surgery that can literally change peoples minds. >> it felt fantastic. i didnt care what was doing it. >> is it a cure for depression? revealing investigations. fascinating characters. stories with impact. this is "cnn presents" with tonights hosts, randi kaye and drew griffin. >> 15 years ago congress knew it had a big problem. its military housing was in a desperate state....

anything like that, let alone my husband. >> his wife has never spoken about what happened until now. battery-powered brains. an experimental surgery that can literally change peoples minds. >> it felt fantastic. i didnt care what was doing it. >> is it a cure for depression? revealing investigations. fascinating characters. stories with impact. this is "cnn presents" with tonights hosts, randi kaye and drew griffin. 15 years ago congress knew it had a big problem. its military h...