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-Unbelievably tragic news today.
Selena is dead.
Selena Quintanilla, the Tejano music superstar
who was from Corpus Christi died this afternoon at Memorial...
-We are standing by live, in Corpus Christi,
right across the street from the Days Inn
where the shooting did occur earlier today.
-Selena Quintanilla, if you're just tuning in,
dead at age 23.
-The victim, uh, collapsed in the lobby of the hotel.
-If you look behind me you can see the tail end
of a red pickup truck.
This is also where police officers and SWAT team members
are still trying to negotiate with the alleged killer.
-Look, this is just a simple case of murder.
That's all.
It's nothing -- nothing other than that.
-The suspect never left the scene.
She holed up in this red pickup truck
in the motel parking lot, threatening to commit suicide.
This is a picture-looking on your screen
right now, this is the woman.
Reportedly, her name is Yolanda Saldivar.
-There are a lotta pieces to this story that are missing.
A lotta pieces.
-If my daughter Selena was...
was killed this morning by a disgruntled employee.
-What the public's been told
isn't exactly what happened in reality.
-I don't think the public wants to hear those kind of details.
-Saldivar will not be eligible for parole until the year 2025.
-I have hope, but I'm scared. -It is scary.
-This is not a simple case of murder.
This is what this proves.
-Conspiracies about what actually happened,
rumor about whether she had an affair with a doctor.
It's confusing. And it's messy.
And it's complicated.
-Sometimes people don't care what the truth is.
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-Early afternoon, morning, Friday,
I was dispatched, sent out to the location
where the shooting occurred.
I was on the outside perimeter
that had been set up by uniformed officers.
There were SWAT officers around the pickup truck
with one or two of the hostage negotiators.
-I was the primary hostage and crisis negotiator on scene
and team leader.
I got the call via pager, responded to it,
parked at across the street,
on scene within about 15 minutes or so.
There's a red truck sittin' out there in the parking lot.
The driver of this truck is a woman,
and she's got a gun and she's threatening suicide.
As I'm walking across the street,
I'm just kinda, like, mesmerized by the hundreds
if not thousand people or so that's surrounded this hotel.
Media's everywhere,
and that's never happened before,
that I'm aware of, in Corpus Christi.
-Pretty sure you can ask anybody in Corpus Christi
where they were when this happened, and they'll tell you.
They'll know. They'll remember it.
It was -- it's involved in everybody's mind.
I was at my desk, and my friend David Bennett,
who worked for the San Antonio Express-News, called me up.
And he said, "Uh, Selena's been shot."
So I said, "David, it's not April Fool's yet,
and this isn't very funny."
And he said, "No, no, no. I-I'm not kiddin'.
This just came over the -- the wire, the AP wire.
She's been shot."
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-Selena was this ambassador that was taking the sound
into places that Tejano had never been before.
And so, by doing that, she was setting herself
up to be an international Latin artist
along the lines of Julio Iglesias,
someone like that, or Gloria Estefan.
She was going to that level.
I thought she was gonna be the next Madonna.
-She just -- she had this gift, and she was young,
and she was full of promise,
and she was gonna do marvelous things in this world.
And all of a sudden, it just ends.
People wanna know why.
-We can't believe this happened to someone like her.
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-There were several rumors and gossip
that was going on about who it was.
-An emotional Abraham Quintanilla
told reporters more about the shooting
than police are willing to disclose.
-It wasn't until Mr. Quintanilla
called a -- a press conference to answer questions
and said it was Yolanda Saldivar,
a disgruntled former -- former employee.
-She was, uh -- uh, the president of the -- started out
as the president of the fan club.
And, uh, then she was hired as an employee for Selena,
uh, at her stores.
-Yolanda's still in the truck when all of a sudden
Abraham is on television talking to the press.
Abraham was her manager and her father,
and I was surprised at how quickly the manager
kicked into gear after her death.
-During a news conference this afternoon,
her father speculated that the shooting occurred
because of some missing money.
-And there was some discrepancies...
with the fan club.
-What could be worse, an artist killed
by their fan club president?
This is, like come on!
This is tragedy upon tragedy.
This doesn't happen.
-The standoff continues at the scene of that shooting,
that motel at Navigation and Interstate 37.
Nancy, give us the latest. -Joe, the standoff has been
going on for more than six hours,
and it appears that this is not going to end anytime soon.
Corpus Christi police have brought in some floodlights,
so this could last for several hours.
-The negotiators, their job is try to get
this person out of the situation without her injuring herself.
That's all they're trying to do.
-[ Chuckles ]
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It's not really a pleasant memory.
You know, you really are starting a conversation
with someone who is at their worst.
And then you're trying to gain a rapport with them.
And you hope it's effective.
[ Voice breaking ] 'Cause if it's not...
bad things could happen.
She's sitting in that truck,
and she's got the gun cocked to her head,
and if it's cocked, anything could -- I mean,
she could bump -- turn around and -- and somebody startle her
and shoot herself in the head.
-Oh!
-About 9:30, 9:20 that evening,
she finally is talked out of the truck.
-[ Screams ]
-Okay. Okay.
-Get back. -Relax.
Relax.
-Drop the gun! -Okay.
[ Police radio chatter ]
Finally, around nine thirty, she gets out of the truck,
and takes a few steps towards the back.
SWAT officers push the truck door shut,
and shove Saldivar to the ground.
She's handcuffed, and going along with terms of the deal,
her face is covered with a jacket.
Saldivar is quickly put into a patrol car and taken to the downtown station.
-The SWAT team takes her in.
She was taken up to the criminal investigation division
where she met Paul Rivera and Ray Rivera
the detectives assigned to the case.
-From the start, our understanding is that Yolanda
was in the truck sayin', "I shot her.
I shot her. I shot her."
It became, to me, apparent that she killed Selena.
-What makes a murder is the intentional
taking of another life.
If it's an accident then there's no murder.
-You got the shorthand of what happened,
but was that really the way it all happened?
There are so many shades of gray to this story.
There are so many nuances and little twists and turns,
and so, as long as the person at the center of all this,
and she's still around, who was accused
Boy, I'd sure like to hear what you got to say.
-Lots of time has passed.
I think that, um, after so many years,
uh, I think it's time to set the story straight.
And -- And I think the people deserve to -- to know the truth.
-A 23-year-old woman
whom Mexican American teenagers in this country
compared to Madonna was shot and killed...
-Selena was fatally wounded today at a Days Inn...
-Selena Quintanilla was shot and killed today...
-Police say she was gunned down in a Texas motel by a fan.
-...her assailant in custody,
fans and family are left with her memory and her music.
-After Selena was killed, that weekend, this happened
on a Friday-that Saturday and Sunday,
over 50,000 people lined up to pay their last respects.
And I knew we were in for something
that we had never seen in Corpus Christi, Texas.
-At least 30,000 fans filed past her casket on Sunday,
most in shocked disbelief at the bizarre murder of a rising star.
-They hope their presence here
is of some comfort to Selena's family,
like her husband Chris Perez, a member of her band
who is understandably silent and subdued.
Others embrace her fan of a lifetime,
Selena's father and manager.
-And she represented us with the women.
-There's a hole in our hearts that is missing
because of Tejano music.
I think Tejano music is going down without Selena.
-I realized when I was watching the news all night.
I was like, this is not a fake.
It's real. She's gone.
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-My name is Cat Cardenas.
I'm a journalist from San Antonio.
I write about entertainment, pop culture,
but primarily about Latino culture,
and for the past several years,
I've written extensively about Selena and her legacy.
So, Selena grows up in this very musically inclined family
and starts singing along with her dad on the guitar
when she's, like, six or seven years old.
And the whole story is that he immediately realizes
that she has a very natural talent for singing.
So, they form their own little band
and Abraham starts playing the role of manager,
like, booking them little gigs around town,
playing parties, and pachangas and events and things like that.
And as she gets older, in 17, 18, 19 years of age,
she's very clearly set on the idea
that she's gonna do this and she's going to be
a mainstream Mexican American popstar.
-You know, I'm a firm believer
that Hispanic families are real tight.
They seem to stick together, believe in real family unity.
And you can see by our family.
We work together really well.
-The idea that a girl from Lake Jackson
and from Corpus would be up on the Grammy stage
and is at, you know, these venues with stars
that she's idolized her whole life
is kind of a crazy idea in and of itself.
She's, like, very much this image
of an all-American girl
while still very much representing a community
that didn't have a lot of representation.
The Tejano community did not have, like,
a mainstream star
representing them the way that Selena was.
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-Chris Perez, he had joined the band as guitarist.
He was really good-looking,
He was quiet. He was a strong type.
And it was kind of on the sly for, uh, several months,
you know, that they're seeing each other,
they have to sneak away to talk to one another.
It's, you know, it's forbidden love.
Chris and Selena eloped and announced to the family
and the band they had married.
And they moved in, uh, next door to Abraham.
1991, Selena Y Los Dinos are blowing up.
and as part of this getting bigger, they get solicitations.
-The Quintanilla family gets, I think at some point,
they say, like, 10 or 15 calls in a row from Yolanda Saldivar,
who was a fan of Selena's,
had been to several of her shows,
and wanted to get their permission to start a fan club.
-So when Yolanda comes, "Hey, I'd like to run your fan club,"
Abraham, "Great. Sure."
And she built up the fan club.
She did what she promised.
-She's getting tons of requests from people who are excited
to get their little packets of, like, Selena fan items.
And Yolanda then starts working a little bit closely
with Suzette, Selena's sister, to do, like, fundraisers
and things like that at some of the shows.
-All of a sudden, Yolanda Saldivar was somebody.
She was the president of the fan club
of the most dynamic band in Tejano music.
-Um, well, Selena had, um,
she had an aura of attracting you to her.
When she would perform, she would -- would --
would draw -- draw you to dance with her.
She wanted you to feel what she was feeling.
And so it -- it draw you to that
and maybe I was feeling like her.
Maybe I was feeling down. Maybe I was feeling depressed.
Maybe I was feeling joyful.
She brought you into that.
The first time I met her was in Desperado Nightclub
in San Antonio.
She was very friendly, very...
she wasn't telling me Miss Yolanda or Yolanda.
She was just, "Hey friend!"
And she would just pat you on the back
or just laugh about anything and everything and I --
I said to myself, "This girl doesn't even know me
and look at the way she treats me."
And she kind of eased my -- my worry a little bit
and just embraced me.
We became friends.
-A woman who is nearest and dearest to Tejano singer Selena
has been charged with killing her.
-Saldivar was one of Selena's closest
and most trusted friends.
But there are still dozens of unanswered questions tonight.
The first one being how could someone so close
to Selena allegedly kill her.
-All of a sudden, after that dark day in Corpus Christi,
everybody was wondering, who is this woman?
A fan club president kills the star?
What's going on here?
This doesn't make a lick of sense.
-The narrative has always been, "Oh, a crazy fan killed Selena."
But it was something a lot more complicated.
It really calls to mind a very distinct era of
'90s tabloid coverage that was very cruel
and unforgiving towards women.
-And I, you know, I don't think
the image makers are interested in nuance or any details
or certainly, you know, the evil woman that killed her.
They don't want to humanize her.
-Yolanda is a confusing person for the media to deal with.
An unmarried, you know, in her 30s woman being friends
with a 23-year-old popstar.
It's a confusing relationship dynamic
for a lot of people to swallow.
And it's very easy to sensationalize it
into kind of portraying Yolanda as a jealous spinster
who wanted to be as close as possible
to this youthful, beautiful, amazingly talented person
who always has the spotlight on her.
-Justicia! Justicia! Justicia! Justicia!
-I never hated anyone in my life.
But Yolanda took some-- something so precious from us.
I hope she's found guilty.
-I was convicted by public opinion
even before my trial started.
-If they don't send her to prison,
she won't be here too long.
I guarantee that. -Somebody'll get rid of her.
-We want Saldivar put away.
For life. Forever.
-They have been fed, um, uh, a narrative that is not correct,
that I was an embezzler, that I was an obsessed fan.
My right as a -- as a citizen of the United States to be innocent
until proven guilty was reversed on me.
I was guilty and needed to prove my -- my innocence.
-I know that people were hurting.
I know it.
And I know that they loved her, no doubt.
And I know that the people to this day still hurt for her.
I do, too.
And I know that Abraham took advantage
of that sentiment, that sympathy,
and used it for his benefit, to poison their minds,
and continues to do that.
My family was devastated from the very beginning.
My parents had -- had all my belongings.
They had all my property.
They had all my files.
They had everything.
And they, for months, put it all together.
My sister, my brothers, and my parents said,
"We're gonna vow to tell the truth, but you have to tell us
the whole truth, no matter who it hurts.
We have to get justice for you.
We cannot let lies and untruths stand."
And my mom would always tell me,
"A lie will stand until the truth arrives."
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-I think a big question is, like, how does somebody
who loves somebody kill them.
I just think in this case, particularly,
they didn't mean to.
And the reason I say that is
because I know the relationship between Selena and Yolanda.
I was there from the beginning of their relationship.
But yet, nobody really knows who I am.
The public only knows what they've been told, right?
There's been a story that has been created,
but nobody really knows exactly what happened.
And what's in these boxes tells that true story
about what happened.
It's just interesting that it's been living
in this storage-in -- in, you know,
in these boxes for almost, you know, 25-plus years.
My name is Tina.
I was the San Antonio Selena Etc.
boutique manager.
Selena was my friend.
I am also Yolanda Saldivar's niece.
Not very many people know that I am Yolanda Saldivar's niece.
So, because I don't share the same last name with Yolanda,
I have friends to today that don't know
that I'm related to Yolanda Saldivar.
This is my first time that I've ever been on,
really, on camera to -- to say my truths.
I don't feel comfortable coming forward now.
But I feel that it's a necessity.
At this point, Yolanda has spent nearly 29 years in prison.
Um, and in one year, can be eligible for parole.
In these boxes, there is a story
of Selena and Yolanda's relationship.
As a family, we are putting together
the pieces of this puzzle so that we can show the public
that there is more to this story than what they have been told.
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This is not a simple case of murder.
This is what this proves.
-It wasn't a person that just said, "Hey,
I -- I wanna get rid of you and..."
-Correct.
My aunt Elida spent the majority of her life
just gathering anything and everything that she could
so that she could put together
the pieces of this puzzle to tell Yolanda's story.
-This is her legacy, and this is what she's did all her life:
gather all the information that nobody else wanted to gather.
-My mom wasn't one who wasn't afraid
to -- to put her face out there to defend her baby sister,
to show the world that she's not like
what they say, that she's a monster.
'Cause she's not.
-For a very long time, the family,
we've never came out ourselves to say this is what happened.
We know what happened.
We know how Yolanda is,
the kind of person that Yolanda is.
Yolanda was our youngest aunt.
I think vicariously, her nieces and nephews were kinda, like,
the kids that she didn't have.
-She was all about putting other people before herself.
-That's why she went into nursing.
Yolanda was the first one in our family to
get a college education.
My grandparents sacrificed for her to have the ability
to complete her nursing school.
With that, Yolanda felt a responsibility
to our family.
And so, um, if there is things that we were into
or that we wanted to do, she would do it with us.
-Yeah, most of these pictures I have never seen.
-That's at the Selena fan club things that we did.
-Yeah.
-My cousins really liked Tejano music.
They liked Selena.
When Selena would play at venues that were,
you know, family friendly,
Yolanda would take my cousin, Maria,
and my cousin, Barbie, and their friends.
And so, my cousins talked about, we should do a fan club.
That's what kind of prompted Yolanda,
and she decided to start the fan club for us.
At the beginning of the fan club as a family, we all helped out.
-These were all great times.
You know, the fan club, the shirts.
I remember the pencils, the -- I remember the houses
being cluttered with Selena stuff.
-The Saldivar family, they did a lot for Selena.
We'd always spend a lotta times at the Saldivar,
uh, ranch having dinner, and we would,
uh, put all these packages together for the fan club.
We were doin' it for Selena because, of course,
Selena didn't have nobody else to do it.
-That's where the relationship started, and then that evolved.
That evolved into a friendship.
Yolanda accompanied Selena for the filming of one of her videos
and so I think even the family, to a point,
depended on Yolanda to be her chaperone.
-Well, I...
I was running the fan club, and one day in July of '94,
I believe, um, Abraham called me and said,
"Yolanda, we would like for you to --
to see if you can go with Selena go -- to go to LA
because she's going to be filming, uh,
'Bidi Bidi Bom Bom'
but none of us can go with her.
Somebody has to go with her."
And, um, so I went.
That's when the friendship started solidifying
very, very close.
We did a bunch of things. We'd go to the park.
We would go to the movies and, um, just hang out.
And we'd go to the clubs and she loved that.
She just wanted someone that she could depend on,
and she knew I was there to do her work.
-They -- They talk about, like, she was obsessed and yada, yada,
but to me, this just, like,
shows they were really good friends.
You know what I mean? Like...
Beyond just being a friend and an employee,
she became her companion and her confidante.
Yolanda was protecting some of Selena's secrets,
and not just some secrets that maybe the family
didn't want out, but secrets from the family.
She just became dependable like, you know, to Selena.
And so I think with that dependency came,
you know, them even getting closer.
-They were best buds.
They were pals. They did everything together.
They went to the mall together. They went shopping together.
Yolanda's nickname was "Buffy."
-The word "Buffy" is something that, like,
in our little group, Selena,
Suzette, me, some girls that we met through --
just through them that became our friends...
-Mm-hmm. -...like, we would always
call each other Buffy, like, "Hey, Buffy!"
It's just like, "Hey, buddy," like, "Hey, friend."
You knew you were Selena's friend
when she started calling you "Buffy."
You were part of her inner circle.
-Selena didn't have close friendships.
She'd confide to me a lot of things.
She loved to just speak what was in her heart,
knowing that I would keep stuff private.
-When you keep secrets, it affects any relationship.
It makes it difficult.
On one side, you don't want to betray your friend.
And telling her husband or her parents
everything that's going on.
But on the other side, you want to tell somebody,
because you want to try to help your friend, right?
So, it changes the dynamics.
-Selena made errors and made mistakes.
She is a human being.
She made good decisions. She made bad decisions.
And she wanted and sought the love of another man.
And I covered that up thinking that I was doing her right.
And I was not.
And part of it is my fault.
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-I think there is a lot to glean from Yolanda
and Selena's relationship, their friendship,
and their business dealings with each other.
The fact that she's entrusting some --
a lot of those big responsibilities to Yolanda
does speak to how close they are.
Absolutely it does.
-It went from being the president to being friends
and then growing that relationship
where there was trust enough that Selena was like,
"Okay, you know, you did a good job with the fan club.
Um, I really do trust you,
and so I'm having issues with my business,
so please help me with my business."
When she started working for Selena
shortly after that, um, Yolanda did resign
as the president of the Selena fan club.
-When I interviewed Selena for "Texas Monthly" magazine,
I had to pull stuff out of her to talk about her music career.
She wanted to talk about her fashion design
and her boutiques.
Selena's dream was not to be the next Madonna.
I think she would have been happy
to achieve that kind of success.
She was that success-oriented and driven,
but her dream was the one thing that she had that was her own --
Selena Etc.
-Right now, they're fixing to re-sand the floors.
These are the original wooden floors that were in the home,
the 1940 home.
-Her clothes are fundamentally something
that is her idea, her expression,
her way to be 100% herself on stage.
Selena has this opportunity to kind of stake her own claim
and have something that is just hers,
and that's what she wants to be, Selena Etc.,
a clothing salon, a clothing line,
a place that women could come
and get their hair and nails done and look beautiful.
-The manicuring station, you can see them right here,
where they're gonna be doing nails.
-It was gonna be Selena's line, Selena's name.
You could go to Selena Etc. boutiques
in San Antonio or Corpus
and get into Selena's world on her terms.
Her father, Abraham, was not her boutique manager.
He didn't -- He didn't help her out on boutiques.
That was her deal.
And the fashion thing was her deal.
♪♪
-There was a time where Abraham
told Selena you either going to have to choose
between your business or your singing career, and --
and she said I can do both, I can do both.
You don't own me.
She was on the road to success for her fashion design
and her perfume design.
She knew it and he knew it, too.
He was mad that she did not incorporate him
into her businesses at all.
♪♪
-My role at Selena Etc.
was to be the San Antonio manager.
Meeting Selena the first time,
it didn't feel like you were meeting, like,
some big star that you feel so intimidated.
Selena was, like, really down to earth.
-When I'm not performing or I don't have to do special
TV things, I like to be like this.
Relaxed, just like anybody else.
-She made it easy for people to talk to her.
We became friends.
It wasn't like she was like a superstar to me.
We'd go shopping. We went to the malls.
We'd go out to eat. It was just fun girl stuff.
-Selena had these goals to do fashion and her boutiques,
and the enabler, her helper that made this possible, was Yolanda.
-Yolanda, I mean, she was kind of our direct supervisor.
Selena felt very comfortable
and trusted Yolanda enough to ask her
if she would consider helping her.
This was the boutique here in San Antonio.
It's a little eerie.
I haven't stepped foot into this building for
like over 20 years.
This was our main boutique area.
[ Voice breaking ] And that was my office.
Looks very different.
Just all our hard work we put into this place.
Like, all the sweat and tears and,
I mean, that we just bangin' our heads together
to make sure that this was successful.
Selena and Yolanda, the ending of that relationship,
it has, um, overshadowed some of the precious,
beautiful times that we had together.
And, like, not just...
not times of Selena,
Selena the singer, but just...
...like, Selena my friend.
I know me -- me -- me talking and sharing my truths
is going to create a backlash in my personal life
with people now associating me with my aunt,
which I feel conflicted because she is my aunt.
I can't tell you that I don't love her, because I do,
'cause she's a part of my -- of my family.
It's hard reliving it all over again,
knowing that the end result
is that I've lost two important people in my life.
-The Yolanda of it all, it complicates things
because of what Yolanda did.
No one now can have a neutral perspective
on who Yolanda is because of what happened.
♪♪
-We as human beings, we love to be told stories.
When we were little, that's how they brought us up,
and that's how we understand things.
Most juries, they want to know why it happened,
how it happened.
Your job as a prosecutor is to assimilate
everything that's being given to you
and put it in such a way that it makes sense.
And it's gotta be a complete story.
It can't just be the -- the day of the murder.
This is how a murder starts
and how it's prepared and how it's committed.
We call that the anatomy of a murder.
Sometimes you can go back as far as two or three years before.
In this case against Yolanda Saldivar,
we only went back a few months.
In early January of 1995, Mr. Quintanilla,
Selena's father, started getting phone calls
from members of the fan club who said
that they weren't getting what they were paying for.
-Yolanda Saldivar, she was the fan club president,
so Mr. Quintanilla
who was always into promotin' Selena
and the band would -- would go to her and say,
"Hey, why am I getting these calls?"
"Oh, they're just -- they're lyin', Mr. Quintanilla.
They're just saying that.
They want to get a free membership.
They want to get a free picture
or a free poster," and stuff like that.
But it kept happening. [ Telephone ringing ]
He -- He kept getting phone calls and letters.
He knew something was fishy.
-During the investigation into the books at the boutiques,
we found a lot of checks that were made
by Yolanda Saldivar to Yolanda Saldivar,
signed by Yolanda,
and not just one check, two checks.
There were thousands of dollars of checks
deposited in her account.
-Abraham and Selena's sister, Suzette,
thought somethin' should be done, I guess,
and then they bring Selena in.
I think Selena was the last one to be convinced.
-On the evening of March 9th,
Mr. Quintanilla called a meeting with Yolanda Saldivar.
♪♪
-So that's Abraham calling Yolanda for that meeting
that everybody talks about.
Like, they were gonna talk to her about embezzling
and the fan club and all that good stuff, right?
-That's crazy.
-Once again, Abraham Quintanilla asked Yolanda
about the fan club.
Why people were saying they're not getting anything.
Yolanda Saldivar had no, uh, explanation.
-Fans would send in letters, their fan club fee.
A package was put together and w-would be sent to them,
so when that -- that letter came in,
whoever was in charge of the fan club
should've processed that.
I was not even part of the fan club anymore.
I was not even president of the fan club.
I was working for her as her employee.
-He showed Yolanda all the checks and told her,
"Yolanda, we -- I know that you're stealing money."
And Yolanda had no explanation.
-Selena's sister Suzette told me that durin' this confrontation,
that Yolanda Saldivar would -- would talk to
Mr. Quintanilla to refute the claims,
but she'd always be, like, lookin' over at Selena for help.
And Selena was just...
Yolanda was lookin' for a lifeline
and Selena wasn't throwin' it to her.
Selena wanted her to answer those questions.
And Suzette told me that was one of the first times
that she thought Selena was really believin' this stuff,
that somethin' was goin' on
because Selena had always come to her defense before.
-Abraham accused me stealing from her businesses,
yelling and screaming at me, "Money is missing."
And -- And -- And I kept asking, "Show me what you're saying.
Show me the date. Show me."
And, "No, I've got it right here."
They wouldn't let me talk.
But Selena, she was there defending me.
Abraham and Suzette were just yelling and screaming,
calling me all kinds of names.
And -- And she would stand up, she'd say, "Dad, let her speak!"
And she's like, "Dad, if you cannot let her talk,
we're leaving."
And it -- it -- it -- they never let me talk.
So to them, I was guilty.
-According to Mr. Quintanilla,
Selena, I think for the first time,
really got into her head
that Yolanda was doing something improper,
uh, so I think the -- the connection there
between Yolanda and Selena was broken.
Mr. Quintanilla told Yolanda,
"Get outta here. Don't ever come back."
-"You cannot come on the property anymore."
Like, issuing a criminal trespass warning.
And when she left, they thought it was pretty much done with.
-But the embezzlement investigation
is what really started everything in the direction
that resulted in the death of Selena.
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-To them, I was guilty.
But they'd never proven me that I stole a single cent from her.
If I was an embezzler, like he claimed,
why didn't he ever press charges on me?
He didn't because he never had that evidence.
-The whole story was the motive was that she was stealing,
she got caught, I gotta kill Selena.
Everything was planned once she was fired for embezzlement.
-They're saying that she embezzled from Selena's company.
There's no way she embezzled from Selena's company
because I worked at Selena's company.
There was weeks that we didn't even have money to pay payroll.
And we didn't have money to pay payroll
not because Yolanda was stealing money
or anybody was stealing money.
We didn't have money to pay payroll
because salaries were high.
Secondly, we had no customers.
How is Yolanda gonna steal money from a boutique or a business
that isn't even making any money or making any profit?
-When I started working for her,
I -- I had no idea what I was walking into.
I had no idea.
I came to work for her,
and I was doing what she asked me to do.
Selena was stubborn.
She said, "I know what you're doing,
because you're showing me.
We went to NationsBank
and -- and even the president of NationsBank warned Selena,
"Look, Selena, your -- your businesses are crumbling.
Your -- Your creditors are calling me.
Your payroll checks are bouncing.
You don't have any money in the bank."
And -- And -- And she would tell me,
"Yolanda, we have to do something
to make my businesses work."
-[ Laughs ]
Let's make it $90,000, then. It sounds better.
-I would say it was several thousand.
I -- I -- It probably was in between $30,000 and $90,000.
And there might have been more
because we stopped at a certain point during the investigation.
-I don't know.
Uh, I mean, I used my -- the sources that I used,
I'd have to go back and look at my source.
But everything was sourced.
But, again, you're dealing with a subject
that is shrouded in legend,
so it was really hard sometimes to put real figures on things
like what was the amount of the embezzlement.
-I think it's part of, like,
the generational divide in talking about Selena
is that for people like my parents and my older cousins,
they remember more distinctly,
oh, she was stealing tens of thousands of dollars
from Selena, whatever figure it was.
Because it was in the tabloid coverage.
It was in the zeitgeist at that time.
After that, it's just kind of gotten a little bit more vague.
-According to the police, the whole motive was that she...
-She stole money. -...she stole money.
When there was nothing.
-There wasn't.
But they needed this meeting
and this motive to prosecute her.
-Yes. -She's never even been
ever prosecuted for embezzlement.
-No, no.
-The prosecution, it never proved in court
that I was stealing anything,
and even the District Attorney
said they never had evidence to charge me with embezzlement
because I think it didn't exist.
Abraham was gonna carry that narrative
no matter what, and there was no way,
no room for me to even say what really was happening.
-The embezzlement investigation,
it was never presented to a grand jury
because it wasn't necessary in the end.
During the trial, it's -- it's not really embezzlement
that we need to prove.
What we need to prove is that Mr. Quintanilla
thought that there was embezzlement going on.
We were alleging Mr. Quintanilla
thought she was doing something illegal, improper,
that there was money missing.
And based on that, he decided to confront Yolanda Saldivar.
The actual confrontation started the whole domino effect.
One domino falls and another one falls and another,
and that resulted in the death of Selena.
He pushed over the first domino at that meeting.
♪♪
-In prosecuting cases, we have to look at everything carefully.
We do need to show the jury why this started,
especially the -- the actions after Yolanda Saldivar
was accused of stealing from Selena.
After the March 9th meeting, Yolanda goes to a gun store
in San Antonio and buys the gun.
♪♪
-She goes to a place to shoot in San Antonio,
and she files what's called an intent to purchase a gun.
In Texas, we have a three-day waiting list.
Comes back three days later on Monday,
and pays the balance of the gun.
When you buy a gun, you're not gonna go deliver daisies.
Why would Yolanda Saldivar need a gun?
There's a reason you buy a gun.
You got it for hunting. You buy it for self-defense.
Or you buy it to kill somebody.
-I went and -- and -- and I bought the gun.
It was after the March 9th meeting.
I didn't feel safe.
It was my own self-defense.
That if anything came my way, I was going to protect myself.
I was fearful.
-Selena wanted her financial documents,
that Yolanda had access to.
Yolanda had all these documents
that Selena needed to prepare her income tax.
As long as she has that information,
Selena has to go through Yolanda to get it.
-And so, Yolanda Saldivar would hold onto these records
because she knew that was her link to Selena.
-Yolanda's world is, she's with Selena.
If that ends, what happens to -- Yolanda just goes back
to being a registered nurse in San Antonio.
Her whole world as she knows it ends.
Yolanda's not gonna let that happen.
Selena's in Corpus Christi,
and Selena calls Yolanda and tells her, uh,
"I need those records, you need to bring them to me, Yolanda.
That's -- That -- This is it. No more playing around, no more.
I'm going to the police. I'm gonna file a lawsuit."
And Yolanda agreed to come to Corpus.
-On the 30th, Yolanda Saldivar,
checks into the Days Inn about 7:30 at night.
-The following morning, Friday, March 31st,
I believe that Yolanda calls Selena.
Yolanda says, "I've got those documents, Selena.
I've -- Just come in and pick 'em up,
and I'll -- I -- that's the end of this."
So, Selena, I think, makes the biggest mistake of her life.
She goes into the room with Yolanda Saldivar.
♪♪
-We started our investigation that night.
Once the crime scene is under control,
that's when investigators will come in,
just start talkin' to people, askin' questions.
If they were here, what did they see, what do they know.
Went from witness to witness to witness,
trying to put -- put the story together of what happened.
♪♪
-We know what happened here at the doorway
was that the shooting happened right here on the threshold.
We know that because there was no blood
on the inside of the -- of the room.
All the blood was located here
and on the wall or on the door here.
-I'm not sure that any witnesses said they heard an argument,
but they definitely heard the gunshot.
And then a young woman ran out of that room.
-Selena is running away across this little grassy area.
She drops her briefcase and some folders.
Now, the folks over here are watching all of this,
and they testified that they saw Yolanda Saldivar
come out of the door with her gun
and point it outstretched at Selena.
-According to our best witness, Yolanda comes out
and she points the gun at Selena
'cause Selena's gone by this time, running.
She brings the gun down, and she says, "Bitch!"
-And there was a trail of blood
leadin' from the pool to the office.
You can tell, generally, that's Selena's path of evasion,
where she's running from.
I recall from the evidence that Selena runs into the lobby.
She runs to the front desk and says, "Help me.
Help me. I've been shot."
I think she either tells the front desk clerk
or some other lady workin' in there
to "lock the door because she's after me, she's after me."
From the police report, I think one of the staff said,
"Who shot you, ma'am? Who shot you?"
And she said, "Yolanda Saldivar.
Room 158."
-That was the last words she said.
This beautiful voice that had brought joy
and still bringing joy to so many people,
the last thing she said on Earth was,
"Yolanda Saldivar. Room 158."
-I am so sorry she's gone.
I'm so sorry that it -- all her family is hurting.
And I'm so sorry my family has hurt.
I'm sorry the fans have hurt.
At no point did I meant to harm anyone.
-I can still remember the day it happened.
-Like... -Yeah.
-I was in eighth grade.
Uh, kids that had radios, they were listening to in class.
They had heard it already on the radio.
And I -- -Did you know it was Yolanda?
-No.
-I was at work.
I'll never forget.
They called me and said, "There was an incident,
and your aunt and Selena were involved."
And Selena had died.
And I just...I cried.
All the way home, I cried, to our house.
I cried. -It's crazy cause
I still remember it like it was yesterday.
-Me, too. -It's crazy.
-It's something -- it's something that's there
because it's -- it's so tragic that it --
that it... -It doesn't go away.
-...doesn't go away. -Doesn't go away.
-Yeah.
-If only the tape in Abraham Quintanilla's hands
could mend their hearts, torn apart, apparently,
at the hands of Yolanda Saldivar.
-Yolanda Saldivar, after she was arrested,
she was taken to the police department
where she was questioned,
and she gave a statement in writing
and says that she's the one who --
who killed Selena.
-Myself and another investigator, Paul Rivera,
no relation, were the primary investigators on the case.
We met Yolanda goin' into the interview room
there at the police department.
She agreed to talk to us.
She answered the questions that eventually
became her written statement.
Yolanda told me Selena met her sometime that morning
to go over the business records from Selena's fan club.
She told us that there was some type of argument over monies
and that Selena was gonna talk to her father,
discuss it with her father,
possibly get the police involved.
And Yolanda did not want her to leave,
tried to keep her from leavin' the room at first.
Selena was leavin' the room,
that's when Yolanda says she shot,
as she was gettin' to the door.
I did ask her, I says, "Okay, you say the gun went off.
Yolanda, I don't think it was an accident.
You shot her. You meant to shoot her."
And in Spanish, it came out, fue de coraje,
it was out of anger, rage.
I'll always remember she told me she shot her in anger.
What she signed is what she said.
-The story behind the confession is that, uh, police work
is awfully funky
when you just don't record a confession straight on,
but you transcribe and write down notes,
and we never hear the full audio of what actually went on.
That methodology leaves so much room for interpretation.
-When they got me in the interrogating room,
Paul Rivera was upset and he said,
"I been out here since this morning,
and it's almost midnight.
I need for you to tell me what happened.
We're hungry, and we need to get going."
He was trying to intimidate me.
And he says, "You -- You went to that hotel to kill her.
You went to..." No. No.
I was -- I was in the hotel.
I was asleep.
I didn't go to the crime scene.
She came at 8:00 in the morning to my room.
And I-I -- I was -- I was telling him all this,
and he was writing.
I was there telling him, "Well, no, no.
You -- You -- You're writing that wrong.
It didn't happen like that." And he said, "No, no.
This is what happened because we have evidence."
And so when he said, "Okay, I need for you to sign
your initials right here, right here, right here.
You need to sign this 'cause we need to go home."
No.
I said, "This is -- This is not my confession.
This is yours."
And he wouldn't let go of that.
And he kept pandering me and pandering me over and over
until I just signed it.
Just to get it over with, yes.
♪♪
-To hear a defendant say that I was coerced,
they beat it out of me, they forced it out of me,
it's not unusual at all.
But I go back to what she -- she did tell me,
that she shot her outta anger.
That's not an accident.
-Just based on the evidence, facts of the case,
the facts as we know them, what witnesses testified to,
all those things, you put together
and that was very important for us
in explaining to a jury this was not an accident.
She pointed it
and intentionally pulled the trigger.
I believe after they're in the room by themselves,
that's when Yolanda starts asking Selena
to keep her on board, to not fire her,
to let her continue working.
I believe that it gets to a point where Selena says,
"We're not only no longer working together,
we're not even friends."
When that happens is when Yolanda knows it's over.
According to her, that's when, uh, she brings the gun out.
She tried one -- one last thing.
She put the gun to her head to try to convince Selena.
Selena immediately turns around and she says, "I'm out of here."
As she opens the door to the outside,
Yolanda brings the gun down and shoots one time.
She says it was an accident.
As the jury listened to hours of audio tapes today
We heard Saldívar tell police negotiators
she only pulled out the gun to
show Selena she was on the verge of suicide
A quickly devised alibi or the truth?
-There always is a defense.
Whenever somebody kills somebody,
it's either self-defense, it's an accident.
I think she was just trying to avoid the consequences
of what she had done.
If you listen to the recording,
Yolanda Saldivar hadn't brought up the word
"accident" during the negotiations.
She hadn't -- She didn't bring it up herself.
It was sort of suggested to her.
-She didn't even say the word "accident"
until they were three or four hours into the tape,
and only because Larry Young had mentioned, like,
"Oh, you know, accidents happen.
Guns can go off on accident."
And -- And no-- nothin' against Larry Young.
He was tryin' to keep her from committin' suicide, right?
He's tryin' to save a life.
And so that idea got in her mind,
and it was pretty clear, you listen to the tapes,
it was like, boom.
-The prosecutors were not there.
I mean, when you talk to someone and you can't see them,
you have to listen to their voice.
You have to listen to exactly how they're saying something,
the words they choose, and if you're just listening
to a recording or you're standing back somewhere else
and maybe not even hearing it
directly means it's totally taken differently.
I got the impression that she was deeply hurt.
This is her friend.
-Yolanda was in the truck sayin', "I shot her,
I shot her, I shot her, but -- but it was an accident."
Myself and Paul Rivera had had a hard time believing'
that right off the bat
because she had the pistol to her head supposedly.
The pistol never went off.
-And she had it cocked.
And she was concentrating on something else,
concentrating on talking to the police,
fiddling with the radio, doing a bunch of things,
and it never accidentally discharged.
She never accidentally pulled the trigger.
-Guns don't magically go off by themselves.
I mean, it was clear to me that it was no accident.
It was no accident at all.
♪♪
-Yes, it -- I-I heard it.
I heard it go off.
-And how did you react? -It startled me.
It startled me.
I did not know when my gun went off,
I did not know that it hit her
because I thought that she just ran.
Like, it scared me, it scared her.
[ Gunshot ]
All I can say is that there was never,
ever any intention to do her any harm.
-When Yolanda says, "It went off without me really trying to,"
I honestly believe her.
-I've never had any doubt in her.
Like, for it to have been intentional?
Never.
-Yolanda Saldivar wasn't pointing
a glass of water at her.
She -- She was pointing a gun, you know?
So, it's -- it's -- you knew that somethin' was gonna happen
by pointin' a gun at somebody.
Also, we knew what had happened before
and after she shot Selena,
and we knew what Yolanda Saldivar
had done right there at the scene.
The fact that you'd call your best friend a bitch,
okay, under any circumstances, right?
Especially under such horrible circumstances as shooting them.
To me indicative of what's in her mind.
Evil intent.
-The state calls the defense accident theory hogwash.
Skurka says if it was an accident,
why did witnesses report seeing Saldivar chase her
with the gun and call her bitch?
-The prosecution put a lot of weight on that word "bitch,"
and basically that was their whole argument.
I mean, it's -- this was an act of vengeance
and it was, uh, it was done with intent.
-No one said bitch in the room.
No.
-There was only one witness who was a hotel maid
who has claimed that she heard Yolanda call Selena a bitch.
But she did not tell police this the day of the murder.
There was other maids and other hotel employees
at the scene who have questioned
if this lady was even telling the truth.
-Yolanda calling Selena "bitch"
did not quite fit neatly into the puzzle
that the prosecution had constructed.
There was another piece of the puzzle that didn't quite fit,
and Yolanda's defenders believe completely flips the narrative.
♪♪
-A few days after the murder, a maid cleaning out the room
found an item in the safe at the hotel room,
and as far as Yolanda's defenders are concerned,
this element really changes the whole storyline.
-Once the room was released, and -- and by released, I mean
no -- no longer part of the crime scene,
staff from the hotel came to inventory the room.
-The purse was found inside the safe.
-Right.
I then contacted Rose Gonzalez here, the assistant manager.
Recovered that purse from her.
Inventoried the contents of the purse.
-No. -No.
-Identification inside the purse
showed that the purse belonged to Yolanda Saldivar.
This is Ray Rivera's
listing of the contents of Yolanda's purse.
The following were inside the purse -- a prescription bottle
for Xanax pills for Yolanda Saldivar,
her nurse card, the letter from the attorney.
-A letter from a Richard Garza, an attorney.
I don't recall.
The letter itself.
-Was that the resignation letter?
-I don't remember anything about a resig-- resignation letter.
-The resignation letter from...
from -- I -- whose resignation letter?
I -- I remember something like that.
I -- I -- Yeah, there was a resignation letter
written -- I think it was written by her lawyer.
-It looks like a draft of a letter
that was dated March 13th,
which was a couple of weeks before the -- the shooting.
-Mm. Let me see what these are.
This was her resignation letter to Selena on March the 13th.
And so it says, "It is with great regret and reservation
that Ms. Yolanda Saldivar
submits her employment resignation from your company,
Selena Etc."
-She was resigning, but it was a formatted legal letter
from a lawyer,
but didn't mean their friendship was over.
She was just walkin' away from the business.
-The other thing that's really interesting about this letter
is that at the beginning, it says,
"The reason for her resignation
isn't that Yolanda didn't like working for Selena.
It's because --"
stated really clearly in this letter --
"the day-to-day dealings with certain members of your family
has made it impossible for Ms. Saldivar
to work for you or Selena Etc. Inc."
And so this just goes back
to, what's the story that we've always heard?
-Yolanda was fired... -Correct.
-...by Selena and Abraham Quintanilla.
But this is her resignation letter to them.
-Correct. -Yeah.
-Yolanda was never fired,
and that's another thing that the --
that the public doesn't understand.
Like, after that March 9th meeting,
Yolanda's really trying to put distance between her and Selena.
This should have been something
talked about over and over again...
-Oh, yes. -...in her trial.
They knew. They knew she resigned.
-Yeah. -That's crazy.
-It's not signed by the lawyer,
so I don't even know if this was ever sent.
Did Selena ever get this letter?
-Not that I'm aware of.
-I don't know if it was sent or not.
I don't remember.
-Oh, this is interesting, too.
So they say that this was, like -- this was never sent,
but I'm looking at a police statement
that Chris, Selena's husband, made on April the 5th.
And in his statement, he says,
"Yolanda went to an attorney, and the attorney, whose name
I do not remember, sent some kind of letter to Selena."
-"I remember Selena talking to Yolanda on the phone
about the letter, which she got from the attorney.
Selena felt betrayed by Yolanda."
-"Yolanda stayed on the payroll but would not come around
to the boutique in Corpus."
So the D.A. or whatever, right,
even though they're saying
that she didn't get this letter...
-Yeah. -...or they're discrediting
that it was sent... -Sent.
-Chris is actually saying... -He's saying that she got it.
-...she got it. -Yeah.
-And she felt betrayed.
This is crazy.
It took Corpus Christi police three days
to figure out that Yolanda's purse
was in the safe of the hotel,
that there was a resignation letter.
And then it just boggles my mind that once they found it,
that they just dismissed it.
-It's confusing behavior, and I don't know why would a cop
who finds this resignation letter in the safe
in Yolanda's hotel room
not introduce it, investigate it,
pursue further lines of questioning about it.
-You know, that's -- that's -- that's something
that really bothers me.
I mean, I've been a detective or investigator
for 40 years and plus.
What a lotta people seem to think
is that a detective's job is to make a case on someone.
That's not -- That's not at all what a detective's job is for.
A detective's job is to -- is searching for the truth.
No matter what falls or how it falls
or where it points or whatever, you follow it to wherever it
takes you for, in search of the truth.
This, uh, supplement to the police report,
it just really doesn't say anything.
It's just, uh, says, "A letter
from Richard L. Garza, attorney," and that's it.
It's item number 20.
-Cynically,
if you want an open-and-shut murder case,
why would you introduce things that are going to complicate
a very straightforward narrative of a disgruntled employee
by bringing up said disgruntled employee's resignation letter
from weeks before the murder?
But that's too, like, conspiracy brain for me.
I don't know.
-I know she got that letter 'cause I FedEx'ed it to her.
And -- And she wouldn't accept it.
She was, "You will not quit. Who's gonna do all this?
You think my father's gonna do this?
He's gonna shut it down.
He doesn't want it in the first place.
Who's gonna -- I'm gonna lose all of this."
And we were having a disagreement on all of that.
She didn't want me to leave.
-If she had resigned on March 13th,
this shooting had -- would never have happened March 31st
because she would never -- have no access
to anything with Selena.
But clearly she didn't resign at that time.
-If she really wanted to do this, as she says,
if she really wanted to do this, it would have been very simple.
She would have just turned this in to Selena,
to Mr. Quintanilla,
and walked away and never come back
and Selena would still be singing today.
♪♪
-I-I think that March 9th meeting
really made some impression with Yolanda.
Something scared her
that, um, shortly after that, on the 11th,
uh, my grandpa and my cousins go down to Corpus Christi
with the -- with the trailer
and -- and bring all of her stuff back to San Antonio.
Completely moves out of her apartment.
This is the tape that was in Yolanda's answering machine.
Because she still had the lease till the end of the month,
she left her answering machine there
and people left messages.
Let's hear it.
-That is her orientation for the job that she'd gotten.
-This is an orientation.
So, Yolanda was moving on.
-She was moving on.
-So where is the
"I'm gonna kill you because you're firing me"
when somebody left her a message on her machine
about starting a nursing job all over again?"
-Yes.
-Yolanda had already starting making plans to go
back to her nursing career.
Yolanda had already been going to interviews.
She already had, uh, a job offered to her.
That doesn't seem like somebody
who is trying to do everything she can
to stay in Selena's inner circle or keep her job with Selena.
In addition to the message from --
from that new employer,
Selena was also trying to talk to Yolanda,
something that the public hasn't heard before.
♪♪
Like, she was my friend.
Like, that -- that's my friend, too, you know?
And she's still calling Yoli,
and it just reminds me of, like, how we used to be.
Like, you know, nothing like they say.
And, you know, that's after the March 9th.
We know that it's like...
that Selena was just part of... -The family.
-...Yolanda's life.
And the reason I'm crying is because it's so heartbreaking
that Abraham and everybody say
that it's just -- that they weren't close.
-Yeah. -Like...
I mean, you're hearing Selena calling her
and calling her and calling her, right?
Selena isn't, "I don't want nothing to do with you."
You know what I mean? Like, and that's --
and that's what that's always been portrayed.
-Yeah. If you knew this person
was stealing, you knew they were bad,
you knew your family didn't want this --
this person in your life, why would you continue --
-She's not scared.
Like, it, there's no fear. -There's no fear there.
-It's almost like, "Hey, where are you?
Where are you?" -Yeah, "Where are you?"
-Like, "I need you."
-She was trying to keep that friendship.
-Yeah, but people were trying to pull them apart from each other.
-Selena and Yolanda were close.
They -- They were like sisters, which if they were that close
and, you know, they continued working together after Yolanda
had been accused of embezzling, then why did she buy that gun?
Who was that gun for?
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-What is this?
-Um, some receipts and documents from A Place to Shoot.
-This is where she bought the gun.
It doesn't make sense that she would have just
gone and bought a gun. -No.
-Out of the -- Out of the blue.
-Out of the blue. -No.
-Which just shows you that something scared her.
It wasn't just about embezzlement.
There was something else going on.
-There was, yes. -There was something --
something vengeful, something hateful.
-Something.
-There was a point, probably about three-quarters
of the way through the seven and a half hours
where Yolanda wanted to talk about a lotta things.
Then she started talkin' about how she's afraid.
What she's saying is,
"I was afraid of Mr. Quintanilla."
And, uh, so, I asked, "Why are you afraid of him?"
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-When I met Abraham, he was very nice to me
and very, uh -- uh, business-like.
He, at first, confided in me, trusted in me.
He would tell me, "I want you to -- to go with her,
and I sent you. I want you to listen to me,
and I want you to tell her she cannot do this."
It was so micromanaged in her life,
that she couldn't do anything.
If I fell out of line
and took her to the mall, he would blow up.
There was constant arguments between them
about him controlling her time,
and there was -- there was this friction there.
Anyone that tried to help her, uh, that was something
that Abraham was not gonna tolerate.
-During the standoff, Yolanda was blaming Abraham.
And it was very clear that Abraham was a dark figure
as far as Yolanda was concerned.
-Sending people to harm me, threatening me,
what do I do?
It sounds very authentic.
I mean, she's not stopping to think about anything.
She's just letting it flow.
-I'm responsible for -- for buying the gun, but I had fear.
I was scared, I was frightened by Abraham.
I knew his past, and I knew
that he had confrontations with other people.
I just felt like she couldn't protect me.
And the only thing I thought that I could continue
was if I protected my own self.
-I could see how Yolanda was intimidated by him.
I was intimidated by him.
-If you didn't do what he wanted,
or he felt that you did something
that he didn't want to with Selena,
he threw his weight around.
And I think Abraham's conflict with Yolanda
is that she's a force that's pulling Selena away.
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-There was a lot of things that was occurring
that I was helping her with that Chris,
nor Abraham, no one knew.
She lived a life that people don't know about.
There was a -- a good side and a bad side of her.
But Abraham, he knew that something was up.
Well, he knew I know her -- I knew her secrets,
and he wanted me to reveal them to him,
and I would not betray her on that.
And when I would not, anger started coming my way.
That's when the chaos started.
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My tires were slashed.
My brakes were cut.
I'd been assaulted.
-Nothing like that ever happened.
There's no proof other than her word.
-What is that?
-The secret love letter.
-How that gun went off -- Yolanda was there.
She'll give you her story, but is that the story?