The widow of an Internal Revenue Service employee killed when a disgruntled taxpayer flew his plane into a seven-story building in Austin, Texas, last week is suing the pilot's wife, according to court documents.

Valerie Hunter, the wife of Vernon Hunter, is accusing Sheryl Stack, wife of Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III, of negligence, alleging she she knew or should have known that her husband was a threat to others and, thus, could have prevented the attack, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Travis County District Court.

"Stack was threatened enough by Joseph Stack that she took her daughter and stayed at a hotel the night before the plane crash. [She] owed a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others including [Vernon Hunter]," the suit says.

The lawsuit also seeks to bar the release of Vernon Hunter's autopsy report, saying that, if made public, it would cause Hunter's family to suffer "severe and irreparable emotional distress."

Hunter was killed February 18 when, authorities say, Stack flew his Piper Cherokee PA-28 into a northwest Austin building that housed nearly 200 IRS employees.

Authorities say Stack set fire to his $230,000 home in Austin before embarking on his fatal flight.

Police have said Sheryl Stack spent the previous night in an Austin-area hotel but did not say why. Police said they had received no calls of domestic violence from the house. The only calls to police were made a couple of years ago and concerned barking dogs, officials said said.

A 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack railed against the government, particularly the IRS.

"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different," the online message said. "I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."

Sheryl Stack issued a statement after the attack expressing "sincere sympathy to the victims and their families."

Holy fucking fuck...Boyes couldn't suck a dick if it landed in his mouth.

So if you just had your spouse get killed from this kind of incident, you wouldn't be almost completly insanely pissed off? You wouldn't look for any (legal) pound of flesh possible? If this asshole's family knew just what type of freak he was, I would call that irresponsible to not notify authorities that he was a risk to others. Whether that irresponsibility also amounts to legal negligence is a good question, but I certainly can't blame the widow for trying to find out.

This is why these terrorist asshole's are useless pieces of shit - they go off the deep end and wind up killing someone (a Vietnam Vet that served his country, no doubt as a low rung draftee) that had absolutely zero to do with his twisted anger. Fuck that Stack asshole and anybody who knew about his mindset and could have done something to prevent his actions but didn't.

Holy fucking fuck...Boyes couldn't suck a dick if it landed in his mouth.

So if you just had your spouse get killed from this kind of incident, you wouldn't be almost completly insanely pissed off? You wouldn't look for any (legal) pound of flesh possible? If this asshole's family knew just what type of freak he was, I would call that irresponsible to not notify authorities that he was a risk to others. Whether that irresponsibility also amounts to legal negligence is a good question, but I certainly can't blame the widow for trying to find out.

This is why these terrorist asshole's are useless pieces of shit - they go off the deep end and wind up killing someone (a Vietnam Vet that served his country, no doubt as a low rung draftee) that had absolutely zero to do with his twisted anger. Fuck that Stack asshole and anybody who knew about his mindset and could have done something to prevent his actions but didn't.

Opportunistic, slimy people in this world. Sad.

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None of us know how much Stack's wife knew about his intentions. For all we know she knew a lot...maybe not. A lawsuit is one way to find out. I'm one of the last people that want to see frivolous lawsuits, but I can't possibly blame the woman who just lost her husband for no good fucking reason. What could possibly be "frivolous" about wanting some compensation for your dead husband? Somebody actually died, a true productive head of household no less. This isn't about one neighbor's tree falling into the other's yard and causing emotional distress to the fucking dog. I fail to see "frivolous" in this story what-so-ever.

I can't believe some of you guys can't put yourself in her shoes and understand the need for answers and any possible legal justice, criminal or civil. Much of Stack's estate should be going toward the Hunter family eventually anyway, so litigation is on the way no matter what.

I'm sure you guys would just sit back and accept nothing more than an apology though, and wait patiently for a criminal investigation to be completed. Whatever.

I'm sure you guys would just sit back and accept nothing more than an apology though, and wait patiently for a criminal investigation to be completed. Whatever.

None of us know how much Stack's wife knew about his intentions. For all we know she knew a lot...maybe not. A lawsuit is one way to find out. I'm one of the last people that want to see frivolous lawsuits, but I can't possibly blame the woman who just lost her husband for no good fucking reason. What could possibly be "frivolous" about wanting some compensation for your dead husband? Somebody actually died, a true productive head of household no less. This isn't about one neighbor's tree falling into the other's yard and causing emotional distress to the fucking dog. I fail to see "frivolous" in this story what-so-ever.

None of us know how much Stack's wife knew about his intentions. For all we know she knew a lot...maybe not. A lawsuit is one way to find out. I'm one of the last people that want to see frivolous lawsuits, but I can't possibly blame the woman who just lost her husband for no good fucking reason. What could possibly be "frivolous" about wanting some compensation for your dead husband? Somebody actually died, a true productive head of household no less. This isn't about one neighbor's tree falling into the other's yard and causing emotional distress to the fucking dog. I fail to see "frivolous" in this story what-so-ever.

I can't believe some of you guys can't put yourself in her shoes and understand the need for answers and any possible legal justice, criminal or civil. Much of Stack's estate should be going toward the Hunter family eventually anyway, so litigation is on the way no matter what.

I'm sure you guys would just sit back and accept nothing more than an apology though, and wait patiently for a criminal investigation to be completed. Whatever.

I probably answered some of this in my last post (probably before you posted). I know how the process should work - wait until the criminal part is done and go from there. I'm not about to criticize a pissed off spouse that isn't just in grief, but wants some fucking answers - yesterday.

If Mrs. Stack knew specifics, then she might (might) have some legal responsibility. You could say the same for any number of car crash scenarios. Should the victim of a deadly crash wait until grieving time is over before filing suit against the guilty driver's family/estate? That's a personal issue that I wouldn't judge someone over.

As for innocent until proven guilty - that's not what's going on here. Filing a lawsuit in civil court is the same as being charged with a criminal offense. There's no assumption of guilt/innocence either way, it's just a notice that you'll have a court date to explain your side.

Mrs. Hunter is probably jumping the gun, I've already agreed, but to turn around and jump to conclusions about her and toss out "frivolous" and "bitch" when she just had her husband killed by a fucked-in-the-head domestic terrorist is a bit much. No, it's way over the top.