A new docuseries will air on Oxygen True Crime that will be based on the complex relationship between Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla and her killer Yolanda Saldivar.
The three-part docuseries, Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them, premieres with back-to-back episodes on Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. ET/P. It will feature prison interviews with Saldivar, who is eligible for parole on March 30, 2025, almost 30 years after the Grammy winner’s murder.
Selena was 23 when she was fatally shot by Saldivar, who was also her close friend and business associate, in 1995.
Saldivar allegedly killed Selena after the singer learned Saldivar had been embezzling money from her clothing boutiques, PEOPLE reported.
Witnesses testified during her trial that Saldivar applied for a permit to buy a gun and told gun store employees that family members of mentally ill people for whom she worked had made threats against her, according to the AP.
She shot Selena at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31. Saldivar held police at bay while she sat in her pickup in the motel’s parking lot threatening to kill herself.
Prosecutors called the killing a “senseless and cowardly act of violence,” while Saldivar’s defense attorneys argued that the fatal shooting was a tragic accident and that Saldivar was trying to kill herself not Selena.
Oxygen’s new docuseries “examines Saldivar’s interpretation of events that ended in Selena’s death and her claims that everything wasn’t as it seemed.”
Saldivar, 63, was interviewed at Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas, as well as Saldivar’s family, the hostage negotiator who responded to the crime scene, Corpus Christi Police Department detectives, and prosecutors.
