Contributor: What Selena's murder says about our fascination with death

Contributor: What Selena's murder says about our fascination with death

Thirty years after the pop legend’s death, why do Latinos continue to crave this story?

Thirty years after his assassination, which ended a career that for those years had no roof or competition, Selena Quintanilla is still in effect with a new documentary, the renewed anger at his reissued albums several times and even the recent denial of parole to Yolanda Saldívar, condemned in 1995 for the shooting death of La Reina del Tex-Mex. "This is an artist who does not cease to excite and inspire", he told the Spanish news agency EFE Ja…

Gatesville, Texas.- Mrs. Yolanda Saldívar was notified that her trial was not eligible for parole so she will continue to serve life imprisonment for killing Selena Quintanilla in 1995. Yolanda Saldívar, 64, was ready for parole for the first time since the singer's death. Why did Yolanda Saldívar be denied parole? Yolanda Saldívar will not be able to get parole this year By explaining the decision to deny her parole, the board stated that the p…

After it became known that Yolanda Saldívar, Selena Quintanilla's killer, had applied for parole after 30 years of being held at Mountain View Prison in Gatesville, the Texas State Board of Pardons and Probation made its decision. As you will recall, the former collaborator and former best friend of the Mexican-American singer was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995 after a difficult trial for the Quintanilla family, but she had that opportun…