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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, i'm 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 joe's character when you were playing in the band together? how did he comport himself. >> extremely professional. billy will agree, he knew what to play, knew the part. didn't let ...

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 -- didn't seem distraught or anything like that. just, you know, regular easy going joe. >> rick, we've got pictures of the band playing together that we want to put up. when billy says he was regular joe, who is regular joe? >...

Billy, at the time that you had met him, he was, if this is in fact his writing, there's no reason to believe it's 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 isn't enough therapy in the world that can fix what's really broken. also said he couldn't 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 might have been happening in his life? >> i haven't actually read any of the manifesto, i've he...

>> just some pictures of the band standing together it looks like in and there's 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. it's been longer since i've seen joe but this is nothing we plan on this -- i didn't see it and i'm not real sure you know what to think about all of this. he was hiding or had this buried deep inside of him somehow and we never knew it. if it was going on at the same time where we were working together...

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 stack's life, including if there were any warning signs of what he was about to do. we're 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 missionaries are back in their hometowns too. is what will happen to the two who are still in a haitian j...