Where Is Selena's Murderer, Yolanda Saldivar, Now?

Publish date: 2024-05-07

Yolanda Saldivar spends most of her time in a small cell at the maximum-security women's prison due to continued death threats from other inmates, according to The Messenger. Abraham Quintanilla, Selena's father, told Univision (via Google Translate) that he and his family still get letters from prisoners at Mountain View willing to avenge the singer's death. "I think she is in a safer place now," he told the broadcaster in 2018 — but he believes she would be in danger if she was ever released into the general population.

Saldivar allegedly has a bounty on her head and on at least one occasion has come close to being physically attacked during her time in prison. In 2016, prison guards had to restrain two other inmates who "lunged" at her, according to The Messenger. "She is despised," a former inmate told the outlet in August 2023. "Everyone wants to get her. She's the most hated person at Mountain View." Still, Saldivar has had at least one friend at the prison: Diane Zamora, another high-profile inmate. The former Naval Academy midshipman murdered her teenage rival in a love triangle in 1995, and she grew close to Saldivar while they were both in the protective custody unit, per the Associated Press.

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