The funeral of the Staten Island woman who was killed in Turkey while pursuing her interest in photography has been funded by the donations as well as sales of her photographs. Sarai Sierra was active on Instagram, and her family set up an InstaCanvas gallery to sell her images.

It was so successful that the funeral was fully paid for. Her brother wrote, "We’re super thankful and by God’s grace all expenses are covered. All remaining funds and any other donations that come in will NOT go towards her funeral. Those funds will go to her children. The PayPal donation link will be taken down shortly. Her photos will still be available on Instacanvas. Any pics that y’all buy from her Instacanvas will go to her children."

Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two who worked part-time at a chiropractor's office and was trying to complete her bachelor's degree, had planned the trip with a friend. Though the friend had to drop out, Sierra traveled on her own, taking photographs, and eventually meeting up with a male Instagram user, who Turkish police identify as Taylan, on January 21, the day she was supposed to leave. But she never got on the plane, and on February 2, her body was found in the "low-income district of Sarayburnu" by some ancient walls.

Police are investigating the crime and, after reportedly finding DNA under Sierra's fingernails, want the DNA of 21 possible suspects. And though the Turkish police have said that Sierra was not a spy or a drug courier, the Post's FBI sources claim that she had questionable ties:

“There are a lot of open questions that need to be answered,” a source familiar with the ongoing case told The Post. Mother of two Sarai Sierra, 33, was found dead from a ferocious blow to the skull in a seedy area of Istanbul last Saturday after failing to show up for a Jan. 21 flight home to New York.

“The first people she met up with were a criminal element,” the source said of Sierra, who flew to Turkey Jan. 7, then to Amsterdam on Jan. 15 and Munich on Jan. 16 before heading back to Istanbul Jan. 19... The FBI is in Turkey investigating the case, and is looking into a possible connection to drug trafficking — among other lines of inquiry, a source said.

“There are some witness reports that she was seen with sketchy characters,” said the source, adding that agents are following up those leads to determine if they’re accurate.

The source also says that while Sierra's husband Steven Sierra and brother have been "cooperative... being cooperative and being helpful are two different things."

Steven Sierra, who still has not told his 9- and 11-year-old sons that their mother has died, told the Daily News, This is something you never want to imagine, and it’s something I’d never want anyone to experience. You have so many plans, so many dreams with the person you deeply love. You look forward to many years together and there are so many things you haven’t fulfilled with that person, and now those won’t be fulfilled... My heart especially goes out to my two sons. Now they won’t grow up with this amazing woman."

He added, "I don’t know yet what went wrong and that’s the battle I'm going through right now. What happened? Who attacked my wife? She’s a little lady, only 5-foot-2, and very petite. Who did this to her and why? . . . I don't have answers right now and maybe I never will."