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 didn t know that he was violent. how could i possibly know he would do a thing like that? cheryl met joe 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. 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, joe was in another battle with the irs. a battle he wasn t going to lose. joe stack started to document
the government in excruciating detail. 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 didn t know that he was violent. how could i possibly know he would do a thing like that? cheryl met joe stack through a mutual friend in 2005. both loved music.
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 talked about divorce. he said we were the cause of
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 in late 2008, and once again, joe was in another battle with the irs. a battle he wasn t going to lose. joe stack started to document what would soon become his