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Boarded his single engine plane. >> ready for departure. >> reporter: and was cleared for takeoff. >> 39 delta, >> what's your direction of flight, sir? >> reporter: at 9:44 a.m., joe stack was headed for his final flight. joe stack knew exactly where he was going, the echelon building in austin, which housed the irs. >> it was like a fireball. people let out a scream all around you. >> reporter: stack slammed his plane between the first and second floors of the building. it exploded on impact. one man in the building was killed, vernon hunter, an irs employee. immediately, there were fears th...

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 what's left of the home that joe stack burned down. is it hard to come back here? >> that's hard to answer. it's 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 played piano, joe played bass guitar. two years later, in a small ceremony in austin, they married. joining was cheryl's 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 didn't like them. >> reporter: but actually, joe's 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 run-ins with the irs continued for decades. joe and cheryl got audited in late 2008, and once again...

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 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 murdering people or eating them or whatever. >> reporter: randi kaye on a sadistic serial killer and a father's anguish. >> he was ...

Joe stack knew exactly where he was going, the echelon building in austin, which housed the irs. >> it was like a fireball. people let out a scream all around you. >> reporter: stack slammed his plane between the first and second floors of the building. it exploded on impact. one man in the building was killed, vernon hunter, an irs employee. immediately, there were fears that this was an act of terrorism. but it wasn't. it was simply one man's grudge against the irs. and then came the manifesto. before stack would die by suicide, the 53-year-old software engineer would leave behind a rambling...