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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, of Auburn, Maine 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.

Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis told jurors in his closing
argument that Flick knew Dobbie was going to be leaving town and
thought to himself, "If I can't have her, I will kill her."

Defense attorney Allan Lobozzo said there had been no indication his
client posed a threat.

The state's medical examiner testified that the wounds penetrated the
victim's heart and lung.

Caitlain Jasper, one of the three alternate jurors, told the Sun
Journal that she felt sorry for Dobbie's 11-year-old children and for
the three men who witnessed the attack and acted swiftly to stop it.

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

Flick has a long history of violence against women. In 1979, he was
sentenced to prison and served 25 years for stabbing his then-wife
more than a dozen times in front of her daughter.

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In 2010, he was sentenced again for assaulting another woman. The
judge at the time ignored the recommendation of the prosecutor for a
longer sentence, saying Flick would not be a threat because of his age
and it didn't make sense to keep him incarcerated. He was released and
moved to Lewiston in 2014.

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