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    Woman blinded in infamous 1959 NYC crime dies

    •January 24, 2013
    • Linda Riss at Bronx County Court for Burton Pugach bail hearing, March 28, 1961.,  (Photo by Ossie LeViness/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
    • Trying to fight free of police guard. Burton Pugach is taken from Morrisania Hospital, where he was treated for self-inflicted slashes on both wrists. The disbarred lawyer, on trial for lye attck on his former girl friend, Linda Riss, cut wrists with his broken eyeglass lens minuted before his trial was to proceed in Bronx County Court, June 15, 1961. Total of 21 stitches were taken.  (Photo by Ossie LeViness/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
    • FILE - This handout photo provided by Magnolia Pictures shows Linda and Burt Pugach in 1974. The two are the subject of the movie, "Crazy Love." Linda Pugach, who was blinded in 1959 when her lover hired hit men to throw lye in her face and became a media sensation after later marrying him died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 in New York. She was 75. (AP Photo/ Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures and Shoot the Moon Productions, file)
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    Lye attack

    Linda Riss at Bronx County Court for Burton Pugach bail hearing, March 28, 1961., (Photo by Ossie LeViness/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

    Linda Pugach, who was blinded in 1959 when her lover hired hit men to throw lye in her face — and became a media sensation after later marrying him — has died, her husband said Jan. 24. She was 75.