{"id":34239,"date":"2013-02-19T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=34239"},"modified":"2013-02-19T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:49:10","slug":"us-woman-murder-turkeyhe-is-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/us-woman-murder-turkeyhe-is-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect-video\/","title":{"rendered":"US Woman Murder Turkey:He is Sarai Sierra murder suspect! \/ Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/laz-ziya-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34248\" title=\"laz-ziya-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/laz-ziya-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/laz-ziya-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/laz-ziya-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/laz-ziya-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect-280x185.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Laz Ziya suspect in the murder of Sarai Sierra came before the cameras at the same place.<\/h1>\n<p>The investigation into who killed the Staten Island mother vacationing in Istanbul, Sarai Sierra, is focused on a homeless man who was seen in the seedy neighborhood of the city where her body was found, news reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish police are hunting down the person who killed Sierra with a blow to the head and left her to die, near the ancient part of the city&#8217;s walls. Thus far, the only suspect remains a paper collector known as &#8221; Laz Ziya&#8221; according to the\u00a0<em>Staten Island Advance<\/em>. New surveillance footage also has surfaced showing Sierra while in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses allegedly told police that Z hasn&#8217;t been seen since he was covered in dirt on Jan. 21- the day the 33-year-old was supposed to fly home to her husband and her two children in Staten Island. Sierra&#8217;s body was found 12 days later on Feb. 2, close to where Laz \u00a0Ziya \u00a0had loitered<\/p>\n<p>Unnamed officials have now speculated that Sierra was killed after resisting an attempted robbery. Police collected DNA samples from 53 people since her murder two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Laz Ziya suspect of the Sarai Sierra Murder video<\/h2>\n[media id=833 width=610 height=340]\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laz Ziya suspect in the murder of Sarai Sierra came before the cameras at the same place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,171,174,194,173],"tags":[6745,46230,46232,46194,46195,45297,45111,46196,45109,46197,45116,46231,46198,46199,46193,77182,46229,1068],"class_list":["post-34239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-istanbul","tag-laz-ziya","tag-laz-ziya-suspect-on-the-camera","tag-mom-killed-in-istanbul","tag-mom-killed-in-turkey","tag-murder-of-sarai-sierra","tag-new-yorker-sarai-sierra","tag-new-york-mom-killed-in-turkey","tag-sarai-sierra","tag-sarai-sierra-images","tag-sarai-sierra-murder","tag-sarai-sierra-murder-suspect","tag-sarai-sierra-photos","tag-sarai-sierra-update","tag-sarai-sierra-video","tag-turkey","tag-us-woman-murder-turkey","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239","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=34239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}