Yolanda Saldívar, who’s serving a life sentence for the 1995 homicide of pop star Selena, is in search of parole after three a long time in jail, as fellow inmates declare the lady has a “bounty” on her head for slaying the “Queen of Tejano Music.”
Saldívar was hit with a life sentence on fees of first-degree homicide in October 1995 for fatally capturing Selena Quintanilla-Pérez with a revolver in a Corpus Christi, Texas, motel earlier that yr.
This marks the primary time Saldívar is up for parole. A listening to about her standing is ready for March 30, in response to information from the Texas Division of Prison Justice.
Saldívar, a nurse and the founder and president of the Selena fan membership, of capturing Quintanilla-Pérez after the musician accused her of embezzling tens of hundreds of {dollars}. Saldívar maintains the capturing was an accident, and pleaded not responsible throughout her high-profile trial, which was moved to Houston given the general public consideration.
When police arrested Saldívar, they discovered her in a parking zone threatening suicide, and stated she had the gun to kill herself, not Selena.
Yolanda Saldívar was convicted in 1995 of fatally capturing Tejano music star Selena (Texas Division of Prison Justice)
“I used to be convicted by public opinion even earlier than my trial began,” Saldívar instructed a Peacock documentary final yr.
Fellow inmates who served with Saldívar stated that her crimes have put a goal on her again inside jail.
“Everybody is aware of who Yolanda Saldívar is,” Marisol Lopez, who served time with the lady from 2017 to 2022, instructed The New York Put up final month. “There’s a bounty on her head, like everybody needs a bit of her. The guards preserve her away from everybody else, as a result of she’s hated a lot. If she have been out [in general population], somebody would attempt to take her down.”
“Everybody was at all times like, ‘Let me have 5 minutes with that b****,’” one other former inmate instructed the paper. “Everybody needed to get justice for Selena. There’s a goal on her again.”
The 1995 homicide shocked followers and got here as Selena was starting to search out crossover success (Getty Pictures)
Members of Selena’s household have additionally described Saldívar going through threats in jail.
The killing occurred simply as Quintanilla-Pérez was gaining reputation within the English-speaking mainstream marketplace for her Tejano music, mixing American pop and Mexican folks kinds.
The connection between Saldívar and Selena has been the topic of current documentaries, together with this yr’s Oxygen True Crime collection Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets and techniques Between Them.
Within the documentary, Saldívar claimed Selena persuaded her towards killing herself, just for the gun to go off anyway whereas she was “hysterical.”
“Selena, when she got here into the [hotel] room, she saved attempting to place guilt in me for not persevering with together with her, and the way every little thing was going to crumble,” Saldívar stated within the collection. “My feelings have been working so excessive, and I used to be hurting.”