ISTANBUL, Turkey — Family and friends of a missing New York mother say she was definitely planning on coming home and deny lurid stories in the Turkish press that she may have decided to disappear on her own.
"Nothing while she was over there showed anything other than the same Sarai that we know, who loves her family, loves her husband, loves her children," said Maggie Rodriguez, Sarai Sierra's close friend who had planned to travel to Istanbul with her but canceled.
