Linda Pugach, blinded in infamous NYC crime, dies

Linda Pugach (left) and her husband Burton Bugach (right) in 1974.

According to this article, 75 year old Linda Pugach was pronounced dead on Thursday by her husband, whom in 1959 was the hitman that threw lye in her face, blinding her. The New York City crime was in the 2007 documentary "Crazy Love."  The cause was heart failure, said her husband, Burton Pugach. "I don't know how I'm going to go on without her," he said on Thursday, when he announced her death he also admitted ever committing the crime causing his wife to go blind for the rest of her life. "If I had told anyone to throw lye at her, would she have married me? A monster does that," he said. She will be buried in Paramus, N.J. on Thursday. "There's a place for me there. We'll be together," said Burton Pugach.