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Making time with us tonight. another couple who have been so generous with their time if you've seen any of our coverage at all during the day. a couple from the state of connecticut, joe and valerie yankis. they're with us by phone after a long night last night, a long night today. joe, let me start with you. you were at the concert last night. did i hear you say earlier today you are a career firefighter and so have experience as a first responder? >> yeah, i'm a retired firefighter right now. and you know, we've come across some horrible acts but nothing at all compared to last night. >> an...

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. people were crying. >> 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 lea...

>> 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 takeoff. >> 39 delta, cleared for takeoff. >> what's your direct...

Rewrote 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 wa...

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. >> 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...