Murderer, 77, who was released from prison as he was ‘too old to be dangerous’ kills again in near identical crime

A MAN who spent decades in prison for murdering his wife was released after he was deemed too old to pose a threat — only to be convicted this week of a nearly identical crime.

It took jurors in the US less than an hour to find Albert Flick, 77, guilty of murdering homeless mum Kimberly Dobbie in 2018.

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Albert Flick, 77, was found guilty of murdering a homeless mum after he was deemed ‘too old to pose a threat’ and released from prison[/caption]

Dobbie, then 48, was stabbed at least 11 times in Maine while her twin sons watched.

The crime is eerily similar to that which sent Flick to jail for 25 years in 1979 – when he slashed his then-wife Sandra Flick 14 times in front of her daughter.

Flick was freed in 2004 — only to be sent back to jail in 2010 for assaulting another woman.

The judge at the time ignored the recommendation for a longer sentence, saying Flick wouldn’t be a threat because of his age and it didn’t make sense to keep him locked up.

Flick was released four years later in 2014 and moved to Lewiston, Maine.

Prosecutors said he met Dobbie, 48, and became infatuated with her, stalking her and dining at the homeless shelter where she was staying.

Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis told jurors Flick knew Dobbie was planning on skipping town and thought to himself: “If I can’t have her, I will kill her.”

Two days before the murder Flick purchased a pair of knives at a Walmart, prosecutors said.

He then attacked Dobbie in broad daylight in front of a laundromat, piercing her heart and lungs.

Her 11-year-old twin sons witnessed the slaying.

It was also caught on surveillance footage.

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’s children.

“I would like to just see [everyone involved] in a line and stand there and tell [Dobbie’s] boys, explain to them how this man was on the streets and how it’s OK,” Clement told the local NBC outlet.

“How the law makes it alright for their mom to now be gone and for them to have to witness it.”

Flick will be sentenced in August and faces life behind bars.

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Flick has been in prison multiple times, but was last released in 2014 when he moved to Lewiston, Maine[/caption]

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Homeless mum Kimberly Dobbie, 48, was murdered by Flick in 2018[/caption]

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Sandra Flick was stabbed and murdered her husband in 1979 – in front of her daughter[/caption]

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The 77-year-old faces life behind bars for his latest crimes[/caption]

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Judges deemed that he did not pose a threat to society the last time he was released from prison[/caption]

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Flick attacked Dobbie in broad daylight, in front of a laundromat in Maine[/caption]

A version of this article originally appeared on The New York Post.