A man who spent decades in jail for stabbing his wife was released after being considered too old to pose a threat - but he was sentenced this week for an almost identical crime.
It took the Maine jurors less than an hour to find Albert Flick, 77, guilty of the 2018 murder of a homeless mother, Kimberly Dobbie, who had been stabbed at least eleven times in front of her twins.
This crime is strangely similar to the murder that sent Flick into prison for 25 years in 1979 - hitting his wife Sandra Flick 14 times in front of her daughter.
Flick was released in 2004 - only to be sent back to prison in 2010 for assaulting another woman.
Flick was released four years later in 2014 and moved to Lewiston.
Deputy Attorney General Bud Ellis told the jury that Flick knew Dobbie was planning to leave the city and said, "If I can not get her, I'll kill her."
Two days before the murder, Flick had bought a pair of knives at a Walmart, prosecutors said.
He then attacked Dobbie in broad daylight in front of a laundromat, piercing his heart and lungs.
His twins, aged 11, witnessed the assassination. He was also captured on surveillance images.
Flick will be sentenced in August and risk life behind bars.
