Linda riss burt pugach biography

American lawyer (–)

Burton N. Pugach (April 20, – December 24, )^[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, – January 22, ), whom he would later marry.

Biography

In , Pugach began a courtship of Linda Riss, a year-old woman from the East Bronx. Upon discovering that Pugach had a wife and daughter, Riss broke off their relationship. Pugach then threatened to kill or hurt Riss if she left him, saying "If I can't have you, no one else will have you, and when I get through with you no one else will want you." Riss reported the threat to the New York Police Department to no avail.

Upon hearing of her engagement to Larry Schwartz, Pugach hired three assailants to attack Riss. The assailants threw lye in Riss's face, leaving her blind in one eye, nearly blind in the other, and permanently scarred. Pugach was convicted of the crime and spen