{"id":33464,"date":"2013-02-06T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=33464"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T10:30:50","slug":"us-tourist-killed-istanbulrecent-findings-in-the-murder-of-sarai-sierra-turkey-news-33464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/us-tourist-killed-istanbulrecent-findings-in-the-murder-of-sarai-sierra-turkey-news-33464\/","title":{"rendered":"US Tourist Killed Istanbul:Recent findings in the murder of Sarai Sierra \/ Turkey News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-dead1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33485\" title=\"sarai-sierra-dead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-dead1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-dead1.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-dead1-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>New CCTV images were found of\u00a0murder victims US tourist Sarai Sierra,\u00a0Video footage appears to Sarai been followed.<\/h1>\n<p>On Monday, prosecutors were given permission to take blood and DNA samples from 21 people who have been questioned about Sierra&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem examination has been carried out on Sierra&#8217;s body and DNA samples have been sent to a crime laboratory, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Police were still using sniffer dogs to search the area where Sierra&#8217;s body was found.<\/p>\n<p>Some new details about the ongoing investigation have emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The man identified as \u201cTaylan,\u201d who arranged to meet Sierra by Galata Tower before she went missing on Jan. 21 gave DNA and sperm samples to the police, Turkish daily Vatan reported today.<\/p>\n<p>Taylan told the police that Sierra and he had sexual intercourse when they met before she went missing. It was known that Sierra and Taylan met on Jan. 13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-victim-of-murder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33486\" title=\"sarai-sierra-victim-of-murder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-victim-of-murder.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-victim-of-murder.png 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-victim-of-murder-280x209.png 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sarai-sierra-victim-of-murder-480x360.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sierra\u2019s jacket and a bag were also missing and police are searching for them along with Sierra\u2019s smartphone and tablet computer, the daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish police hope DNA samples from 21 people being questioned in the case will be key to finding the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re still investigating, so they might think it might be a robbery, but they\u2019re not sure,\u201d said Betsy Jimenez, Sierra\u2019s mother, at a press conference Feb. 4 in New York City, New York Daily News reported.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New CCTV images were found of murder victims US tourist Sarai Sierra, Video footage appears to Sarai been followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,63,1,118,171,174,194,173],"tags":[45292,45296,6745,45110,45297,45293,45290,45109,45295,45112,45108,45289,45294,45298],"class_list":["post-33464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-cctv-images-sarai-sierra","tag-dna-samples-murder","tag-istanbul","tag-killed-sarai-sierra","tag-murder-of-sarai-sierra","tag-murder-victims-sarai-sierra","tag-recent-finding-murder-sarai-sierra","tag-sarai-sierra","tag-sarai-sierra-been-followed","tag-sarai-sierra-investigation","tag-turkey-dead-us-tourist","tag-us-tourist-killed-istanbul","tag-video-footage-sarai-sierra","tag-woman-tourist-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}