Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
Murdered By Her Own Fan - The Selena Quintanilla story
Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Yolanda Saldivar gets close to latin pop star Selena Quintanilla, and she eventually murders her.
Chapter 1: Who was Yolanda Saldivar and how did she become obsessed with Selena?
So this woman is about to assassinate a famous pop star. So let's call her Yo. And Yo is around 30 years old. She's living in Texas. And one night in the early 90s, she's at a concert. And there's this local act on stage. And Yo is blown away by the singer. She's like, this woman is amazing. I love her. I am such a huge fan.
Not only that, Yo goes home and she starts thinking about her all the time. Like she wants to be best friends with this singer and be close to her. So she decides to start a fan club, like an official fan club. And she contacts the singer's manager, who's also the singer's dad. So we'll just call him dad. So Yo reaches out to Dad and she's like, do you mind if I start a fan club?
Dad's like, eh, I don't know. We don't really have the time or the budget to run a fan club. And Yo's like, no, no, I'll do it all for free. You don't have to pay me. And Dad is still like, nah. But Yo isn't going to give up. She keeps calling dad over and over again. She really wants to be close to the singer.
And so finally, after about 15 phone calls, dad finally agrees to let her start an official fan club. So Yo starts working
on this out of her home and she's running this fan club and she's going to concerts and she's signing people up and the fans pay a membership fee and yo will then send them posters and t-shirts and stuff like that and she legitimately does a good job running this club in fact she does such a good job that management eventually lets her meet this singer herself in person and that singer's name is Selena and so over time as the years pass
Yo starts to get in good with Selena. She's helping her out with things and she's starting to get close to her. And later they even make her an employee of the business and they start paying her. And pretty soon she's scheduling appointments for Selena and basically running her life. While Selena, her star is rising fast and she's getting more and more famous.
And as a side hustle, she opens two clothing boutiques. And Yo is doing such a good job assisting Selena. They promote her and they have her start managing these boutiques. And so here she is running all this stuff for Selena and she's around her all the time. And Yo knows soon enough she'll finally be her close friend. Until... At some point, Yo screws everything up.
She starts skimming money from the business. I mean, she's managing the finances for the clothing boutiques, and she's still managing the finances for the fan club, and she starts writing checks to herself and making up fake invoices. So over time, the clothing boutiques start losing money.
Plus, while she's scamming all this money, she's still hyper-focused on trying to get Selena to be close to her. Like, one time she collects $3,000 from employees of the company to buy Selena a gift, like a gift from all the employees. And they collectively decide to buy Selena a ring with diamonds. And the diamonds are in, like, an egg shape. Looks like this.
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Chapter 2: How did Yolanda Saldivar manage to get close to Selena Quintanilla?
Meanwhile, police, they show up to the motel, and they're now looking for Yo. So they search around, and they eventually find her in the parking lot sitting in her red pickup truck. And police are like, come out with your hands up or whatever. And Yo is like, nah, I'm just going to unalive myself. And so this turns into a whole standoff.
And then the SWAT team shows up and they're all trying to negotiate with her, trying to get her to not unalive herself. And as all this is going on, Selena, who's at the hospital in critical condition, she unfortunately passes away. She was only 23 years old.
Thank you, Ben. That's right. We are standing by live in Corpus Christi right across the street from the Days Inn where the shooting did occur earlier today.
And nine hours go by and it's nighttime now. And Yo is still in her truck in the motel parking lot in a standoff surrounded by police because she's still got that pew pew and she's still threatening to unlive herself. Now eventually she does give up and police swoop in and bam they arrest her. Here's her mugshot.
And she ends up going to trial and she's found guilty and she gets sentenced to life in prison. It's a sad one.
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