Seattle woman charged with knife attack on boyfriend's ex

A Seattle woman who killed another woman 12 years ago in a jealous rage over a man is now accused of stabbing her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend earlier this month.

Patricia Crowl, 50, was charged last week with attempted first-degree murder. Police say she lured her new boyfriend's former girlfriend to a Kirkland parking garage and attacked her on Nov. 13. The victim survived.

According to charging papers, the 28-year-old victim said she received a text message she believed was from her ex-boyfriend, asking to meet in the garage at 11250 Kirkland Way. Shortly after the woman got out of her car, she said, Crowl ran at her with a knife, charging papers said.

The woman was stabbed 18 times and suffered a punctured lung, court papers said.

After the attack, the victim dialed 911 from her cellphone and told a dispatcher that she was "stabbed everywhere."

"In a chilling 911 recording, the victim called 911, reported that she was dying, and ... guided police to her location," Senior Deputy Prosecutor Gary Ernsdorff wrote in his request to have Crowl's bail set at $3 million.

A judge granted Ernsdorff's request.

The victim was released from Harborview Medical Center last week.

The victim's sister told police after the attack that the injured woman had recently broken up with her boyfriend of three years. Police talked to the ex-boyfriend that day, and he said that he last spoke with the victim on Nov. 7, when he used his new girlfriend's cellphone to call her. The man told police he was now dating Crowl, charging papers said.

Several hours later, the man called police to say Crowl had just told him, "I need to turn myself into police, I have to go."

That night, police found Crowl at Valley Medical Center in Renton, where she sought treatment for cuts on her palms and fingers from a knife, court papers said.

Crowl was arrested and immediately demanded a lawyer, court papers said.

Police met with the injured woman at Harborview Medical Center on Nov. 14 and showed her a photo montage of possible suspects. The victim immediately identified Crowl as her attacker, court charging papers said.

Crowl had been released from prison in November 2006 after serving time for killing Shawn Beatrice Wallace because Wallace was dating Crowl's boyfriend.

Wallace, who was six weeks pregnant, was bludgeoned with a wrench and choked on May 14, 1997. After the murder, Crowl hid Wallace's body under her house but she moved the remains to a dead-end road in Tukwila with the help of her ex-husband, Jonathan Adam Henry.

Henry was convicted of first-degree rendering criminal assistance and sentenced to six months in jail.

Seattle Times news researcher Miyoko Wolf

contributed to this report.

Jennifer Sullivan: 206-464-8294 or jensullivan@seattletimes.com