Selena's Killer Yolanda Saldívar Officially Files For Parole -- Fellow Inmates Say 'There's A Target On Her Back'

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez‘s murderer is gearing up for a 2025 parole hearing — but her fellow inmates don’t believe she’ll ever see peace, in or out of prison.

Yolanda Saldívar still claims she didn’t mean to kill the Latin American music icon nearly three decades after she was gunned down. Despite public opinion — and that of the court — she maintains that she deserves to be out on parole after serving her sentence. Back in 1995 she was convicted of the brutal killing and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 30 years, and that is exactly what she’s going for now that the time has come.

According to The New York Post, Saidívar has officially submitted paperwork to try and get released next year. A rep for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said the 64-year-old has no issues with her record in prison that would prevent anyone for giving her the March 2025 parole hearing she’s asking for, either. It’s likely Selena’s family will be officially notified of the hearing this January.

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A relative of the convicted murderer told the outlet she feels like a “political prisoner” in the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas:

“Keeping her in prison isn’t going to do any good. It’s time for her to get out.”

Meanwhile, other inmates at the women’s prison are telling the outlet even if Saldívar DOES get out on parole, they believe she’ll be killed to get justice for the Queen of Tejano. Marisol Lopez, who served in the same prison as the killer from 2017 to 2022 told The Post:

“Everyone knows who Yolanda Saldívar is. 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.”

Another former inmate, Yesenia Dominguez, completely agrees — she even said taking down Saldívar was a popular discussion in the prison yard:

“Everyone was always like, ‘Let me have five minutes with that bitch’. Everyone wanted to get justice for Selena. There’s a target on her back.”

It’s pretty clear that Saldívar is beyond infamous… Everyone loved Selena so much, it’s not surprising to hear her murderer is still so hated on all sides. And what a shock to the singer’s poor family if she gets out on parole! Ugh…

Back in 2018, the musician’s father Abraham Quintanilla even touched on the subject, telling Univision’s Primer Impacto that inmates really wanted to get back at the killer even after all this time:

“To this day, we still receive letters from women who are in the same prison where they say they are waiting for her. 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’s family claims she’ll move in with relatives and get a job if she’s released, but that really doesn’t seem like a good idea if all this is true… She wouldn’t last a week!

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