Sarma Melngailis built a celebrity vegan restaurant empire in New York before falling for a man who claimed he could make her dog immortal, a relationship that led to fraud, a cross-country manhunt and a bizarre unraveling of everything she'd built.
▶ Watch on Netflix 🔍 Find more docsThis escalates from mildly eccentric to genuinely bizarre at a pace that's hard to predict — what starts as a story about a wellness-world celebrity spirals into fraud, disappearance and one of the stranger romantic manipulation cases in the true crime catalogue.
If Bad Vegan's fraud-through-manipulation angle interested you, The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman and Stolen: Heist of the Century cover other elaborate cons that spiraled further than anyone expected.
| Region | Available | Platform |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | ✅ | Netflix |
| Australia | ✅ | Netflix |
| United States | ✅ | Netflix |
| United Kingdom | ✅ | Netflix |
| Canada | ✅ | Netflix |
| Ireland | ✅ | Netflix |
