Who is Selena’s killer, Yolanda Saldívar, and where is she today? The Tejano music icon, played by J.Lo in the 1997 biopic, was fatally shot by the president of her own fan club – who now wants parole
The 64-year-old – who is currently serving a life sentence for the 1995 murder of the Tejano icon – has filed paperwork to request being released this year
Selena’s murderer, Yolanda Saldívar, is seeking parole in 2025.
“Everyone knows who Yolanda Saldívar is,” Marisol Lopez, who served time alongside her from 2017 to 2022, told the New York Post. “There’s a bounty on her head, like everyone wants a piece of her. The guards keep her away from everyone else, because she’s hated so much. If she were out [in general population], someone would try to take her down.”
“Everyone was always like, ‘Let me have five minutes with that b****,’” another former inmate, Yesenia Dominguez, explained to the same media outlet. “Everyone wanted to get justice for Selena. There’s a target on her back.”
In 2018, Selena’s father, Abraham Quintanilla, told Univision’s Primer Impacto a similar story. “To this day, we still receive letters from women who are in the same prison where they say they are waiting for her,” he said. “They say 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.”
Saldívar fatally shot 23-year-old Selena Quintanilla-Pérez on March 31, 1995, in a Texas hotel room during a confrontation.
Here’s what we know about her amid the news.