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#ATXPlaneCrash: Joseph Andrew Stack: What We Know So Far
The Manifesto
Stack's ramblings at www.EmbeddedArt.com were last updated this morning, after apparently being saved/edited over two dozen times. The hosting provider has already taken down the site, and now simply reads, "This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI."
Before being removed, however, the manifesto was archived by hundreds of sites. Here's one.
Embedded Art
As a screengrab from Archive.org shows, Embedded Art was the name of the company that Stack founded in Southern California 1983, which was originally known as "Prowess Engineering."
"Embedded Art is a small independent software house, specializing in process control and automation. In its current form it represents the culmination of 20 years of experience in the software development consulting business. Founded by Joe Stack in 1983 (under the name of Prowess Engineering) in Southern California, the company thrived for 15 years until shifting focus to the Sacramento area to take advantage of growth in the Silicon Valley.Now, 5 years later, the expertise of Embedded Art has landed in the Austin Area expecting to lend a hand to the growing high technology industry in South-Central Texas."
Social Networks
Stack had no traceable presence on Facebook or Myspace, although disturbingly, several Fan Clubs and Pages in his name have sprung up in the past few hours.
The Plane
Stack owned a 70s-era PIPER PA-28 Cherokee, a
civil utility aircraft intended for flight training and personal use. The specific model he owned was a Dakota-236, a 235-horsepower version introduced in 1977. The fixed wing single-engine plane seated up to 4, and was last registered in Lincoln, California—a town roughly 30 minutes northeast of Sacramento—in 1998.
Hangar at Georgetown Airport
It appears that an "A Joseph Stack" was a co-owner of a hangar at Georgetown Airport, as a Willliamson County CAD search reveals. The other person assigned to the property may be an executive at Dell.
Austin Residence
As most media have already confirmed, Stack owned the house on Dapplegrey Lane in North Austin that he allegedly set on fire this morning before heading to the airport. The house was built in 1995 and purchased by Stack in 2007.
