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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Murderer of Tejano Icon Selena, Files for 2025 Parole

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Fox News

True Crime

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Yolanda Saldívar, now 64, who is serving a life sentence for the 1995 murder of Tejano icon Selena, has filed paperwork to try to get released next year. Saldívar fatally shot 23-year-old superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez on March 31, 1995, in a hotel room in Corpus Christi, Texas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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She spent 30 years in prison for murdering the Tejano superstar Selena, and now she says it's

0:37.9

time to be released. Yolanda Saldivar is seeking parole in the new year, with the New York

0:42.5

Post reporting she filed paperwork to be released. Her eligibility date is March 30th. A rep at the Texas

0:48.0

Department of Criminal Justice told the Post, the 64-year-old killer has no blemishes on her

0:52.4

prison record. Sal Devar fatally shot 23-year-old

0:55.3

Selena Quintanilla Perez on March 31st, 1995 in a hotel room in Corpus Christi during a confrontation.

1:02.3

Selina believed that Sal Devar, a founder of her fan club, had embezzled more than $60,000,

1:07.3

and the singer was planning to fire her. Sal Devar has long maintained she didn't mean to

1:11.3

kill Selena and was actually meaning to kill herself. A jury didn't believe a story, though,

1:15.5

and slapped her with life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. Inmates at the

1:19.9

prison where Sal Devar is being held told the post that she's constantly a target. There's more on

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the story at foxnews.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime Podcast. I'm Geozoly with your Fox True Crime Minute.

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