Filmmaker Dan Klores examines the strange love affair of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss. Pugach is a successful attorney in | dG1fN0dvTFczVml6T3c
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00:00I really couldn't believe that this could be happening.
00:04Everybody was screaming.
00:05Was I frightened to death?
00:06I was already dead.
00:10I had never seen a girl as beautiful as her.
00:13She was always beautiful.
00:15Her skin was absolutely without a flaw.
00:19Bert was not a very good-looking man, but he was a lot of fun.
00:23Hi, how are you?
00:24He liked to know me and meet me and see me and da-da-da, and I looked at him like he was a nut.
00:30I gave him my phone number just to get rid of him.
00:33A day or two later, he said, you want to go for a ride on my plane?
00:37He is a lawyer.
00:38He owns a nightclub.
00:40Sex was important to me.
00:42He would ask every woman client, and she would either say yes or no.
00:44He was too cheap to go to a motel.
00:46I remained a virgin.
00:48Back then, you were called a tease.
00:49He even made me do something which is so outrageous.
00:53Larry Schwartz was one of the guys.
00:55And he said to me, how would you like to go out tonight?
00:58Like, every girl who met him had a crush on him.
01:00That was the first time I ever saw Linda show love.
01:04Of course, that's what caused the breakup.
01:06I said, I just have no more patience with you.
01:08Get out of my face.
01:09He just flipped.
01:10He was always either on the phone or in her hallway.
01:13A lot of creepy things.
01:14He said, I will cancel the order to kill you if you have dinner and sex with me.
01:18He said, if I can't have her, nobody will.
01:20I am now damaged merchandise.
01:24I was arrested.
01:25Total 30 years in prison.
01:27I felt it wasn't long enough.
01:30It hit the headlines like crazy.
01:34It was almost a little exciting for her.
01:37I love you!
01:40Frank was very sick.
01:41They started to give me shock treatment.
01:44Bert used to send me pages and pages of letters.
01:47And I proposed to her.
01:49Oh my God, this is even sicker.
01:51Nobody is as visibly insane as Bert and Bukash.
01:55Hey, listen.
01:55They say even Hitler had friends.
01:59They're difficult.
02:00They're screaming and yelling all the time.
02:02Bert, where's my coffee?
02:04If it's a joy or a punishment, I really don't know.
02:09Psychedelm.
02:10Do your wives know what you're doing all the time?
02:20It's a hunger, hunger.