Patricia Crowl Allegedly Stabbed Her Boyfriend's Ex 18 Times

Nov. 25, 2009 — -- A woman once convicted of killing her lover's mate is accused of striking again, this time stabbing her current boyfriend's ex as many as 18 times and then leaving her to die.

Patricia Crowl, 55, is facing an attempted first degree murder charge after she allegedly lured Jamie Checkos to a vacant Seattle parking lot and then brutally attacked her last week.

Checkos is the former lover of Crowl's boyfriend Leonard Jackson.

When investigators began looking in the suspect's background what they found astonished them. Crowl had been convicted of a "remarkably similar" crime in 1997.

Crowl pleaded guilty to charges of murder in the second degree after she beat her then-boyfriend's girlfriend, Shawn Beatrice Wallace, to death. According to court documents, she admitted to "hitting the victim over the head with a wrench, strangling her to death, and then disposing the body."

According to The Associated Press, Crowl hid Wallace's body under her house and then dumped it in a ravine.

Crowl served nine of her 13 year sentence and was released from prison in 2006.

Last week, Crowl used her current boyfriend's cell phone to dupe his ex girlfriend into believing they were making plans to meet.

According to court documents, Checkos believed she was corresponding with Jackson via text messages when really Crowl was the one sending her messages. On Nov. 12, Crowl, posing as Jackson, asked Checkos to meet her at a parking lot.

Checkos had broken up recently with Jackson after dating for three years, her sister told investigators.

When Checkos arrived and found only Crowl there, she left, refusing to open her car door to Crowl, whom she says in court documents she had never met before.

But the next day, still texting with who she thought was Jackson, Checkos again agreed to meet at a parking lot. When she arrived, Checkos received a text message from Jackson's number saying that he was at the lot, but was looking for his dog that had gotten off his leash.

As Checkos got out of her car and went to find Jackson and the dog, Crowl allegedly attacked her from behind.