AUSTIN (February 19, 2010)—A day after Andrew Joseph Stack, 53, flew a single engine airplane into the side of a seven-story office building in north Austin, police and fire investigators were picking through the rubble.
Investigators were also at Stack's brick home about six miles away from the office building, which Stack evidently set on fire before he drove to Georgetown Municipal Airport and took off in his Piper Cherokee PA-28-236 Dakota on the short and ultimately deadly flight back to Austin.
The home's roof has caved in and its windows are blown out.
The Red Cross says Stack’s wife, Sheryl Stack, was expected to address the media sometime Friday, but details were pending.
Joseph Stack died in the fiery crash Thursday along with one person inside the building, which housed IRS offices in which about 200 IRS employees worked.
Thirteen others were injured, two critically.
Stack’s father-in-law, Jack Cook, told The New York Times that his son-in-law had a "hang-up" with the IRS.
Stack posted a rambling online anti-government message before crashing his plane into the building.
Cook also told The New York Times that Stack's marriage had been strained.
Cook said Stack's wife night took her daughter to a hotel to get away from Stack Wednesday night.
Earlier reports had indicated the two were home at the time of the fire.
Emergency found a second body in the wreckage late Thursday and Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Palmer Buck said authorities "have now accounted for everybody," but declined to discuss the identities of those whose bodies were found.
It wasn’t the first time a protester has gone after an Austin IRS building.
In 1995, Charles Ray Polk plotted to bomb the IRS Austin Service Center.
He was released from prison in October of 2009.
The tax protest movement has a long history in the U.S. and was a strong component of anti-government sentiments that surged during the 1990s.
