Albert Flick was supposed to be too old to pose a threat to society. This was the recommendation of a judge in 2010 when Flick was in his late 60s, and had just spent over two decades in jail for murdering his wife.
Flick, now 77-years-old with a long and troubling history of violence towards women, was convicted of a murder by a jury in Maine. The decision was reached in less than one hour for the 2018 murder of Kimberly Dobbie, 48, who was slain in front of her 11-year-old twins outside a laundromat.
The deranged man should have never been on the streets nor seen the light of day. The crime is eerily similar to the slaying which sent Flick to jail for 25 years in 1979 after slashing his then-wife Sandra Flick 14 times in front of her daughter. Here are more details from the New York Times.
Forty years ago, Mr. Flick was living in Westbrook, Me., working at a doughnut shop and facing the end of his marriage. His wife, Sandra Flick, served him with divorce papers and had police officers remove him from their apartment. But, when he came to get his belongings, he was armed with a jackknife. Ms. Flick’s daughter from an earlier marriage, Elsie, hid in a bedroom and watched as Mr. Flick bent her mother’s arm behind her back and covered her mouth with his hand. The daughter fled the apartment. When a neighbor went up to check on Ms. Flick, he saw Mr. Flick on the stairs, covered in blood, and found Ms. Flick stabbed four times in the neck and chest, and once through her heart.
Mr. Flick was convicted in his wife’s murder and spent 25 years in prison. But the violence continued after his release: He was convicted of punching and stabbing a woman — who a prosecutor said was a girlfriend — with a fork in 2007, and of assaulting and threatening another woman with whom, a prosecutor said, he had a sexual relationship, in 2010. A prosecutor then urged a judge to sentence Mr. Flick to about eight years in prison, calling him a danger to society and women. Despite his age — then in his late 60s — she told the judge that he was not about to stop. Judge Robert E. Crowley cut that recommendation in half, sending Mr. Flick back to prison for less than four years.
She and her sons had just been awarded an apartment of their own, outside Lewiston before her death. The day before caseworkers were going to take them to their new home, Ms. Dobbie was stabbed to death. In court, Mr. Flick wore black headphones, to help him hear the proceedings. Bud Ellis, an assistant attorney general, told jurors that Mr. Flick knew Ms. Dobbie was going to be moving away from Lewiston and said that Mr. Flick thought to himself, “If I can’t have her, I will kill her.”
According to friend’s of Kimberly Dobbie, the killer grew incensed after she turned away his romantic overtures. Maine does not have the death penalty, Flick currently faces 25 years to life in prison
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