Madness and murder didn't kill Peter Spitz's love for the wife who blinded him

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"It sucks being blind," he says. "I've had a lot of health issues. I also have no sense of smell, which drives me nuts. But the worst thing, day by day, is not being able to have my son."

Tonya Martinez remembers how hesitant her former neighbor was, in his first weeks after rehab, about everything from leaving his apartment to cooking a meal when he couldn't smell it burning. But he found a mighty purpose in trying to save what was left of his family.

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Peter Spitz and Teresa Dickey posed on the occasion of their first date, in 1998.

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Teresa Spitz seemed to adore Peter's mother, Mariko Shida, shown here with grandson Benjamin.

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"Peter doesn't have a lot of people right now," she says. "It's just him and his dark little world. If he had his son there, I think it would help him see the bright side. That's his life. That's his blood supply right there."