Page 13 - Joe Stack News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

♪ i still love joe. i don't 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 family's house on fire, then drove here to the georgetown municipal airport, boarded his single engine plane. >> ready for departure. >> reporter: and was cleared for...

He wrote violence is not only the answer, but is the only answer. i don't know who that is. i don't 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 shining 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 murdering people or eating them or whatever. >> reporter: randi kaye on a sadistic serial killer and a father's anguish. >> he was ...

About the irs, i didn't know that he was vie len. how could i possibly know he would do a thing like that? >> cheryl met joseph andrew stack through a mutual friend in 2005. both loved music. cheryl played piano, joe played bass guitar. two years later, in a small ceremony in austin, they married. joining them was cheryl's 12-year-old daughter, margo. did he ever talk about how he was angry with the government, angry with the irs? >> when we were dating, he did talk about the irs. he didn't seem so angry, he just didn't like them. >> actually, joe's emotions ran much deeper. in the '80s while ...

She said okay. so weleft. >> 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 neighbor's 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 don't think i did react. i think i was just -- just in complete and utter shock.

>> how did you react when you realized it was his plane and it was him? >> well, i don't think i did react. i think i just was -- just in complete and utter shock. he wrote in the manifesto, "but violence not only is the answer, it's the only answer." i don't know who that is. i don't 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 shining on the other side of the clouds. it might be a really dark, dark day. it might be a terrible, terrible day, but on the other side of those clouds, the sun is shining. coming up --