Reply #36: Joe Stack's history might help reveal a bit more...

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2nd wife said Stack was beginning to have serious anger problems for weeks...

that finally forced them out of the house Wed. night? The quote below said it was a frightening anger. I wonder how much information he shared with his wife regarding their financial problems?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20111...

By the account of Cook, Stack was raised in an orphanage in Hershey, Pa., with a brother and sister, leaving the orphanage after high school to attend college. He worked as a software engineer in California, learned to fly and played guitar and piano for recreation. He moved to Austin, playing with a band and at informal gatherings.

In the mid-2000s, Stack met Cook's stepdaughter, the former Sheryl Housh, through musician friends in Austin. After eight months of friendship, they dated and married about three years ago. Both had been previously married.

Sheryl Stack, 50, listed in records at the University of Texas as a graduate student in music performance, brought her own strange back story to the marriage, having spent several years in the sway of a religious cult before her parents orchestrated a rescue.

In recent weeks Sheryl Stack complained to her parents of an increasingly frightening anger in her husband, straining the marriage, Cook said. On Wednesday night, Sheryl Stack took her daughter, Margaux, 12, to a hotel to get away from her husband. They returned Thursday morning to find their house ablaze.

Feelings of abandonment, depression or some sort of lingering anger aren't unknown to adopted children, right? He was raised in an orphanage, I wonder if he even knew or saw his mother or father? Who knows how he was treated while he and his siblings were there?

I'm having a hard time calling Joe Stack a terrorist - more like mentally disturbed.

Sorry for double cut and paste.