Man, released from prison after being deemed too old to be a threat, convicted in another killing

[Floyd R. Turbo]

AUBURN, Maine — A man who served decades in prison for stabbing his wife 14 times in front of her daughter was convicted Wednesday in a nearly identical crime — stabbing a woman at least 11 times while her twin children watched.

Albert Flick, 77, who was previously deemed too old to be a threat by a judge, was convicted in the 2018 death of Kimberly Dobbie. Jurors deliberated less than an hour before reaching its guilty verdict.

Both the attack, which was in front of a laundromat in broad daylight, and Flick's purchase two days earlier of two knives, were caught on surveillance video.

Prosecutors say Flick was infatuated with Dobbie, 48, and followed her around and dined at the homeless shelter where she was staying. They knew one another, witnesses said, but were not in a relationship.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/20/man-deemed-too-old-dangerous-convicted-murder-again/1784897001/

[marble falls]

1. It wasn't as if this guy had any hidden agendas about the women in general ...

and his victims specifically. He was pretty damn public in his preparations. And specific, he preferred stabbing and cutting women to death.

[femmedem]

2. Awful for multiple reasons. Of course, most awful for his victim

and the people who loved her. But also awful because people will use this case as an argument for longer sentences and the denial of parole for other convicted criminals, regardless of whether they had a similar history of violence against women.

[malaise]

3. whitefluenza

ah well