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Chile! Yolanda Saldvar has social media poppin’ off after her legal request from behind prison bars. Saldvar is infamously known as the woman who fatally shot singer Selenain March 1995. She’s serving a life sentence in Texas, but according to The New York Post, she wants out. Yolanda is reportedly requesting to be put on parole in 2025 amid an alleged bounty on her head in prison.
When Selena died, she was only 23 years old and days away from her four-year wedding anniversary to lead band guitarist Chris Prez. A year before passing away, the singer had won her first career GRAMMY for ‘Best Mexican-American Album.’ Her win marked the first time a female Tejano artist won in that category.
Ironically, Yolanda snapped while serving as the president of the singer’s fan club. She shot Selena in a hotel room in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31, 1995, during a confrontation about an embezzled $60,000. The singer was planning to fire the fan club president. Saldvar has insisted since the beginning that the shooting was accidental and that she meant to kill herself and not the beloved artist. Still, a jury convicted her. She was later sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
That parole period will open up in March 2025.Yolanda Saldvar is now 64 years old and being held at Patrick L. O’Daniel in Gatesville, Texas. A Texas Department of Criminal Justice rep confirmed to the NYP that the murderer has a spotless prison record. That considered, it’s likely that the parole board will agree to hear Yolanda’s plea. The update is that she reportedly filed the relevant paperwork to be considered for conditional release.
At least two former inmates reportedly spoke with the NYP about the danger Yolanda could face in the general prison population.
“Let me have five minutes with that b***h” is the phrase that Yesenia Dominguez told the outlet she’s heard about Yolanda. “Everyone wanted to get justice for Selena. Theres a target on her back,” the former inmate claims. Another inmate, Marisol Lopez, cosigns that energy. She said that “everyone knows who Yolanda Saldvar is.”
“Theres a bounty on her head like everyone wants a piece of her. The guards keep her away from everyone else because shes hated so much. If she were out, someone would try to take her down,” Lopez reportedly shared.
A cousin of Yolanda Saldvar told the NYP that keeping Saldvar in prison “isn’t going to do any good.” The cousin added that Yolanda feels like she’s a “political prisoner” and said it’s “time for her to get out.”
Meanwhile, according to the NYP, Selena’s family will likely receive an official notice of the parole hearing next month.
