Staten Island Mom Killed in Turkey Had an Internet-Love to Meet

 

From the beginning  the facts in this case did not add up. It makes no sense that a young woman from Staten Island would decide to go to Turkey on a vacation by herself. Not with her husband?? Not with friends or other family members but alone.  She had no family in Turkey. She left with little money... The part of leaving her young husband behind with her little daughter is as weird as it come. Families travel together. It seems this was a broken family.

 Turkey is not known as a bastion of security just the opposite. This is a dangerous country surrounded by enemies on her sides and with a population that is very different from other European or Eastern countries.
         adamfoxie*

What was the New York City mom of two doing in Istanbul, Turkey? The case surrounding Sarai Sierra is getting more and more interesting as more and more details emerge. Shewent missing on January 22, was found dead on February 2, and now investigators believe she was hanging around a "criminal element" in Istanbul and had a consensual affairwith a man in Turkey whom she had previously met online.
The Stir By CafeMom reports the following:

Cops say that her husband, a bus driver, and her brother have been cooperative with the case, but noted there's a difference between that and "helpful." Her family still insists she travelled abroad alone, despite being very low on funds, to indulge her love of photography, but no one's so sure that's actually the whole story anymore.

It's also been uncovered that Sierra took short trips to Munich and Amsterdam before ending up back in Istanbul on January 19.

The FBI is on site investigating her murder and her possible criminal involvement with drug trafficking because when a mother with little disposable income leaves her husband and her young children behind to take an expensive trip to an exotic location to shoot some graffiti, then winds up murdered by a blow to the head, some eyebrows are going to be raised.

And that friend who bailed on Sierra at the "last minute"? Maggie Rodriguez spoke to the Post and said Sierra was aware during the early stages of planning the trip that she wouldn't be able to join her.

The stories are starting to unravel and things aren't quite as they seem. Hopefully, for the sake of Sierra's children, the truth will be uncovered.

adamfoxie*:

One can speculate that a man sold her some goods over the net, goods that were imaginary. There are ways to check someone you meet over the net. In another country, unless you are willing to spend some money by hiring a firm to check them out for you, you are a fool to take anything as the truth without verification.. Firms do transactions every minute of the day with strangers, you have to check people out the same way it seems.  If they live in the USA and don’t check out don’t even bother to visit if you are in town.  
People have taken advantage of this new medium of the internet to become people that they are not or never would become. You see all the time in Facebook, G+ and other social media on the photos that are posted. People, particularly guys for some reason, don’t post who they are but who they would like to be or who they were at 18 now being 48.
I believe in the net and I have met people over the net, but you have to be careful. Certainly if you have a family. or are breaking up... straighten your stuff out before you go looking for someone else.