{"id":661189,"date":"2019-07-21T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>A man who spent decades in prison for fatally stabbing his wife was released after being deemed too old to pose a threat \u2014 only to be convicted this week of a nearly identical crime.<\/p>\n<p>It took jurors in Maine less than an hour to find Al"},"modified":"2019-07-21T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T12:10:29","slug":"77-yr-old-killer-released-from-prison-dubbed-too-old-to-be-dangerous-kills-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/21\/77-yr-old-killer-released-from-prison-dubbed-too-old-to-be-dangerous-kills-again\/","title":{"rendered":"77-yr-old killer released from prison, dubbed too old to be dangerous, kills again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A man who spent decades in prison for fatally stabbing his wife was released after being deemed too old to pose a threat \u2014 only to be convicted this week of a nearly identical crime.<\/p>\n<p>It took jurors in Maine less than an hour to find Albert Flick, 77, guilty in the 2018 murder of a homeless mother, Kimberly Dobbie, who was stabbed at least 11 times while her twin sons watched.<\/p>\n<p>That crime is eerily similar to the slaying that sent Flick to jail for 25 years in 1979 \u2014 slashing his then-wife Sandra Flick 14 times in front of her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Flick was freed in 2004 \u2014 only to be sent back to jail in 2010 for assaulting another woman.<\/p>\n<p>The judge at the time ignored the recommendation for a longer sentence, saying Flick wouldn\u2019t be a threat because of his age and it didn\u2019t make sense to keep him locked up.<\/p>\n<p>Flick was released four years later in 2014 and moved to Lewiston.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said he met Dobbie, 48, and became infatuated with her, stalking her and dining at the homeless shelter where she was staying.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis told jurors Flick knew Dobbie was planning on skipping town and thought to himself: \u201cIf I can\u2019t have her, I will kill her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two days before the murder Flick purchased a pair of knives at a Walmart, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>He then attacked Dobbie in broad daylight in front of a laundromat, piercing her heart and lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Her 11-year-old twin sons witnessed the slaying. It was also caught on surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>Elsie Clement, the woman who was a child when she watched Flick stab her mother to death, said the judge who set him free will have to answer to Dobbie\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to just see [everyone involved] in a line and stand there and tell [Dobbie\u2019s] boys, explain to them how this man was on the streets and how it\u2019s OK,\u201d Clement\u00a0told the local NBC outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow the law makes it alright for their mom to now be gone and for them to have to witness it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flick will be sentenced in August and faces life behind bars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who spent decades in prison for fatally stabbing his wife was released after being deemed too old to pose a threat \u2014 only to be convicted this week of a nearly identical crime. 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