Linda Riss dies at 75

Linda Riss Pugach dies at 75 - NY Times
The plaintiff in Riss v. City of New York (1967) has died.  Generations of law students have learned that you can't sue the police for failure to protect you from a stalker who has threatened you with violence.  The bizarre end of this tragedy is that she married the man who had blinded her. - GWC

Linda Riss, later Pugach, with Burt, whom she married after he hired thugs who blinded her with lye 

"Linda Riss Pugach, whose blinding by her lover, Burton N. Pugach, in 1959 became a news media sensation, and whose marriage to Mr. Pugach in 1974 became an equally sensational sequel, died at Forest Hills Hospital in Queens on Tuesday at 75.

The cause was heart failure, said Mr. Pugach, her husband of more than 38 years and her only immediate survivor...."

In 1974, The New York Times called the attack on Miss Riss “one of the most celebrated crimes of passion in New York history.” In the years since, the strange romance of Mr. and Mrs. Pugach (pronounced POOH-gash) has seldom been far from public view.

A book about the couple, “A Very Different Love Story,” by Berry Stainback, was published in 1976. More recently, the Pugaches were the subject of a widely seen documentary, “Crazy Love.”