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77-YEAR-OLD ALBERT FLICK MURDERED AGAIN FORTY YEARS LATER

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           On this date, August 9, 2019, Albert Flick, a 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime.

            This is another great example of why Prisoner Rights Activists will remain silent as it is too extremely embarrassing for them to talk about recidivist killers. 

Albert Flick was convicted of killing Kimberly Dobbie, 48, years after he murdered his wife


He was deemed too old to be dangerous. Now, at 77, he’s been convicted of another murder.
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July 19, 2019 at 6:32 p.m. GMT+8

Albert Flick was supposed to be too old to pose a threat to anyone.

When he came before a judge in Portland, Maine, in 2010, he was in his late 60s, and had spent roughly a third of his life in prison. After doing time for killing his wife, he had assaulted another woman and gone back to jail, only to get out and attack a third woman. Flick’s violent tendencies didn’t seem likely to go away with age, both the prosecutor and his probation officer warned. But the judge chose to sentence him to just shy of four years in prison, noting that by the time he was released in 2014, he would be 72 or 73.

“At some point Mr. Flick is going to age out of his capacity to engage in this conduct,”Maine Superior Court Justice Robert E. Crowley said, according to the Portland Press Herald, “and incarcerating him beyond the time that he ages out doesn’t seem to me to make good sense.”

Eight years after that hearing, Flick struck again, fatally stabbing a woman outside a laundromat in Lewiston, Maine, as her 11-year-old twin sons watched. Now 77, he was convicted of murder on Wednesday, and, this time, it looks likely that he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison. The charges carry a minimum 25-year sentence, and prosecutors plan to request that he be placed behind bars for life.

Statistically speaking, the judge who predicted that Flick would age out of criminal behavior wasn’t wrong: A study compiled by the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2017 found that only 13.4 percent of offenders who were 65 or older when they got out of prison were arrested again in the eight-year period following their release, compared to 68 percent of those under the age of 21.

But Flick was the exception. His first murder conviction came in 1979, when he was living in Westbrook, Maine, and working as a doughnut maker. That January, his wife, Sandra Flick, served him with divorce papers and had him escorted from their apartment by police. Three weeks later, when she asked him to come back and pick up his belongings, Flick brought his jackknife with him, the Lewiston Sun Journal reported.

Sandra Flick’s daughter from another marriage was home at the time, and watched through a crack in the door as Albert Flick bent her mother’s arm behind her back and put his hand over her mouth. When the 12-year-old heard a scream, she ran for help. A neighbor arrived to find Sandra Flick covered in blood. She had been stabbed 14 times, and lived just long enough to tell the neighbor that her husband was responsible.

Originally sentenced to three decades in prison, Flick got out after 21 years because of good behavior, according to WCSH. Not long after his release in 2000, he ended up behind bars again. In 2007, he was charged with punching a woman he was dating and stabbing her with a fork, then trying to intimidate her so that she wouldn’t testify against him. Then, in 2010, after getting out of prison yet again, he assaulted a different woman in his Portland apartment.

The woman told authorities that she and Flick had argued, and he had put her in a headlock and hit her repeatedly with the butt-end of a knife, then chased her with a screwdriver when she managed to escape. Police found Flick trying to hang himself from a fire escape when they arrived at the building.

After the attack, prosecutor Katherine Tierney asked the judge to sentence Flick to roughly eight years in prison, arguing that his violent behavior toward women was unlikely to change as he grew older, and the only solution was “significant” prison time.

“Clearly, probation is not working,” she said, according to the Press Herald. “At this point, I just don’t know what else to do. I think there’s a huge safety risk to women and society when it comes to Mr. Flick.”

Flick’s probation officer, Troy Thornton, similarly told the judge that Flick was “an extremely violent individual when it comes to relationships,” the paper reported.

“He doesn’t appear to have slowed down at this point,” Thornton said, “and I don’t see him slowing down in the near future.”

Those warnings proved to be prescient. In 2014, after serving the nearly four-year sentence handed down by Crowley, Flick was arrested for threatening the woman whom he had chased with a screwdriver, telling her, “You’ll get yours” when they ran into each other on the street. The septuagenarian pleaded guilty to violating his probation, and was sent back to prison until 2016.

After getting out, he relocated to the Lewiston area. There, he met Kimberly Dobbie, who was living at a homeless shelter with her two sons.

Witnesses who testified in court this week said that Flick developed an obsession with the 48-year-old, following her from the shelter to the public library, the bus stop and Dunkin’. Though she never reported him to the police, she told her friends that she didn’t appreciate the attention. The mother of two planned to move to an apartment in Farmington, about an hour away, and made it clear to Flick that he wasn’t coming.

Flick went to Walmart and purchased two pink-handled paring knives.

“It became if ‘I can’t have her, I will kill her,” Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis told jurors, according to WGME. “And that’s exactly what he did.”


On July 15, 2018, Flick followed Dobbie to the laundromat, where surveillance footage captured him stabbing her at least 11 times. It took jurors only 40 minutes to convict him of murder on Wednesday, even though they weren’t told of his previous history of violence toward women.

Crowley, the judge who predicted that Flick would “age out” of his violent behavior, retired from the bench in 2010, the same year that he handed down the nearly four-year sentence. At the time, he was widely praised by attorneys, other judges, and even the father of one convicted murderer, who wrote a letter to thank him for treating the family with dignity. He told the Press Herald, which noted that he was stepping down while “at the top of his game,” that he wanted to return to private practice.

Now a mediator at a firm in Portland, he could not immediately be reached for comment late Thursday night.

“I firmly believe this could have been prevented,” Elsie Clement, whose mother was stabbed to death by Flick in 1979, told the Press Herald last year. “There is no reason this man should have been on the streets in the first place, no reason.”

 
Albert Flick leaves the courtroom in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn on Friday morning, convicted to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of Kimberly Dobbie in Lewiston last year. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Convicted murderer, 77, given life sentence for stabbing he committed after deemed 'too old to be a threat'

A 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime.

Albert Flick was convicted last month stabbing 48-year-old Kimberly Dobbie 11 times while her twins watched on a Maine sidewalk in 2018.

Prosecutors said the elderly man was infatuated with Dobbie, who he met at a shelter while she was waiting on an apartment in Farmington. Witnesses said he routinely followed Dobbie and her twin sons to bus stops, the local library, and Dunkin', before eventually stabbing her in front of a laundromat.

The broad daylight attack in front of the laundromat and Flick's purchase of two knives were caught on surveillance video.

"He is a monster," Lori Moreau, a friend of Dobbie told AP. "I hope he rots in hell.”

Judge Mary Gay Kennedy said on Friday that the attack on Dobbie was premeditated and Flick showed no remorse for his actions, saying 'nah' when the judge asked if he had anything to say, according to the Sun Journal.

Flick had a long history of violence against women and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing his wife, Sandra Flick, 14 times after she served him with divorce papers in 1979.

A judge who sentenced him for assaulting another woman said in 2010 that Flick would no longer represent a threat because of age by the time of his release in 2014. The judge disregarded the recommendation of the prosecutor and probation officer for a longer sentence.

During Flick's trial last month, prosecutors told the jury that Flick took action because Dobbie was planning to move away.

"The obsession became 'If I can't have her, I will kill her,' and that's exactly what he did," Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis said.

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Defense attorney Allan Lobozzo said there was no indication that Flick posed a threat to society.

Caitlin Jasper, one of the alternate jurors during the trial told the Sun Journal she felt sorry for the victims 11-year-old children and the three men who witnessed the attack.

"It was soul-crushing for them, and they'll never be able to forget it," said Jasper.

Susan Dobbie, the victim's mother, is in the process of adopting the twins. She and Dobbie's sibling plan to provide a home for the boys in Massachusetts.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Albert Flick is a resident of Maine who was found guilty of two murders and two assaults. He has been in the news lately because of his most recent murder conviction. This conviction was handed to him after a judge stated years prior that at the age of 77 he was “too old to be dangerous.”

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