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Woman Who Killed Pop Star Selena Learns Fate In Prison 30 Years After Murder
The woman who shot and killed singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been found guilty, just a few days before the anniversary of the crime.
Yolanda Saldívar, 64, has been in jail for 30 years after being found guilty of first-degree murder.
Quintanilla-Perez was shot in the back by Saldívar at a Days Inn hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1995. She had been accused of stealing money from the singer’s fan club.
At the moment, Saldívar is serving a life term at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville. She has made many claims about the day she killed the singer.
She did, however, file a petition for parole in the hopes of being freed, and this week (March 27), a meeting was held to find out what happened.
Selena was an American singer who was famous in both Spanish and English. On March 31, Saldívar, the head of her fan club, killed her.
Quintanilla Pérez was only 23 years old when she was killed. She was known as the “Queen of Tejano Music” because of the mix of Mexican and American styles that made her famous.
Abraham Quintanilla Jr., Quintanilla Pérez’s father and manager, invited Saldívar to join her fan club in 1991. In January 1994, she was made manager of the singer’s stores.
When people complained about how she ran the club, Quintanilla Jr. found out that Saldívar had stolen $60,000 from it. When she was caught at a Corpus Christi hotel, she killed the singer with a.38 special pistol.
At Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital, she was pronounced dead in less than two hours.
Documents from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice show that Saldívar’s release hearing on Thursday (March 27) was turned down because of her crimes.
It said that her crime had “elements of brutality, violence, assaultive behavior or conscious selection of victim’s vulnerability indicating a conscious disregard for the lives, safety, or property of others, such that the offender poses a continuing threat to public safety.”
But Saldívar’s case can be looked at again in 2030, and she might be able to ask for parole again then.
Carlos Valdez, who used to be the district attorney for Nueces County, lead the prosecution against Saldívar. He still thinks she is a threat to public safety.
“Lord knows what will happen if she is released,” Valdez told KHOU11. “Based on what I’ve seen so far, I think it would be a serious mistake to grant her parole. I believe, I really believe, that the safest for Yolanda would probably be where she is.”
For her own safety in jail, Saldívar has been threatened with many murder charges for the singer, and there is a bounty on her head. This is why she is in protective custody and is said to spend most of her time alone in her cell.
In a 2018 interview with Univision’s Primer Impacto, the singer’s father said (translated from Spanish): “To this day, we still receive letters from women who are in the same prison where they say they are waiting for her.”
“That they are going to kill her. There are bad women in there. Women who have murdered other people in the past. That is why they are in there. They have nothing to lose.”
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