The lady serving a life sentence for the 1995 homicide of Tejano icon Selena has filed paperwork to attempt to get launched subsequent yr, as inmates inform The Publish there’s “a bounty on her head” behind bars.
A rep on the Texas Division of Felony Justice stated killer Yolanda Saldívar, now 64, has no blemishes on her report that may maintain the parole board from holding a listening to in March to find out whether or not to launch her.
Saldívar fatally shot 23-year-old famous person “Queen of Tejano” Selena Quintanilla-Perez on March 31, 1995, in a lodge room in Corpus Christi, Texas, throughout a confrontation.
Selena believed that Saldívar, a founding father of her fan membership, had embezzled greater than $60,000, and the singer was planning to fireplace her.
In line with the TDCJ, Selena’s household will seemingly get official discover in January of the Saldivar’s parole listening to.
The convict — who’s on the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas, which additionally homes the ladies within the state on Dying Row — has lengthy maintained that she didn’t imply to kill Selena and that her demise was unintentional.
“I used to be convicted by public opinion even earlier than my trial began,” Saldívar stated in a jail interview for final yr’s Peacock documentary: “Selena and Yolanda: The Secrets and techniques Between Them.”
She maintained that she had meant to kill herself, not Selena, on the time.
However a jury didn’t consider her and convicted her and slapped her with life in jail with the potential for parole after 30 years.
A relative of Saldívar just lately informed the Publish that the killer feels as if she is a “political prisoner” behind bars and that she believes she has paid her debt to society.
“Holding her in jail isn’t going to do any good,” stated the cousin. “It’s time for her to get out.”
Inmates on the jail the place Saldivar is being held informed The Publish that she is consistently a goal, forcing her to be housed in protecting custody.
“Everybody is aware of who Yolanda Saldívar is,” says Marisol Lopez, who served time alongside her from 2017 to 2022. “There’s a bounty on her head, like everybody needs a bit of her. The guards maintain her away from everybody else, as a result of she’s hated a lot. If she had been out [in general population], somebody would attempt to take her down.”
One other former inmate, Yesenia Dominguez, stated Saldívar was all the time a standard topic of debate within the jail yard.
“Everybody was all the time like, ‘Let me have 5 minutes with that b—h,’” Dominguez says. “Everybody wished to get justice for Selena. There’s a goal on her again.”
In 2018, Selena’s father, Abraham Quintanilla, informed Univision’s Primer Impacto that different inmates had been threatening Saldívar’s life.
“To at the present time, we nonetheless obtain letters from girls who’re in the identical jail the place they are saying they’re ready for her,” he stated on the time. “They are saying that they will kill her. There are unhealthy girls in there. Girls who’ve murdered different individuals prior to now. That’s the reason they’re in there. They don’t have anything to lose.”
Saldivar claims that she’s going to reside with kin and discover a job if she’s let out.
