Burton N. Pugach (April 20, 1927 – December 24, 2020)[1] was a New York City-based lawyer who spent 14 years in prison for hiring men to throw lye in the face of his former girlfriend Linda Eleanor Riss (February 23, 1937 – January 22, 2013), whom he would later marry.
In 1959, Pugach began a courtship of Linda Riss, a 21-year-old woman from the East Bronx.
Upon hearing of her engagement to Larry Schwartz, Pugach hired three assailants to attack Riss.
Pugach was convicted of the crime and spent 14 years in prison, during which time he continually wrote to Riss.
[2] In 2007 Dan Klores produced a documentary film Crazy Love about Pugach and Riss.