But Was it Really Love?

Crazy Love is a must see documentary, it's the true story of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss and Pugach's  obsession with her that of course turned dangerous. 

In 1957 Pugach first sees Linda sitting on a bench and decides that she's his and nothing was going to stop him. So he pursues her, uses his money and nightclub to woo her and once it's revealed that he's married he strings her along until she's had enough and moves on. She eventually becomes in engage to another man and this sets Burt off into full psychopath mode. 

Burt decides that if he can't have her no one else will and hires a man to blind her with lye.

During his time in prison he still whines about his love for Linda and makes several attempts to contact her writing letter upon letter pleading his case. After fifteen years when Pugach is released he's finally reunited with Linda through her friends no less and they marry. Yes, she marries the creep who blinds her! 

There are so many moments in this documentary that made grit my teeth in anger and cringe. Linda tells her fiancé at the time of her blinding to get out but he refuses, he would later break off the engagement because he decided he couldn't handle it. Linda's friends decide that after years of being alone and having nothing in her life and because Burt is still telling anyone who will listen that he's still in love with her they set them up on a date. Eventually they marry and amazingly enough the bastard still cheats on her! In the mid 90s Pugach would be accused of threatening his current girlfriend by telling her he would blind her, Linda stands by him and he is acquitted of all charges. So did Linda marry him because she loved him or because he was financial security? Watch and then you decide.