Turns out, he’s known her for more than 15 years. In Netflix’s press material that accompanies the series, producer Mark Emms explains how he and Sarma met up in New York prior to her beginning her incarceration at Rikers Island. “Their undoing? A charge made under Fox’s real name, Anthony Strangis, for a Domino’s pizza. “A few years later the couple, now married and on the lam after stealing nearly $2 million from the restaurant and its staff, are found holed up in a Tennessee motel by law enforcement,” Netflix’s description continues. The only catch? Melngailis has to obey every single instruction from Fox, without question. But also, strangely, assurance that he could make her beloved pitbull live forever. Those promises, by the way, included not just a guarantee to help expand her food empire. And funneling the cash to Fox, who had started conning her into believing he could make all of her dreams come true. After meeting a man on Twitter in 2011 named Shane Fox, however, she started siphoning money away from her restaurant. Sarma Melngailis was the celebrity restaurateur behind the once uber-chic New York hotspot Pure Food and Wine.

This true-crime series is based on a real-world series of events - specifically, on a conman and the woman who loved him enough to do some indefensibly stupid things.

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