The Untold Truth Of Selena Quintanilla's Murder

It was during those 10 hours spent at loggerheads in a Days Inn parking lot that Saldivar first gave her version of the events that took place in room 158, explaining to officers that she had fired on Selena by accident as she was inexperienced with a firearm. According to Saldivar, it was she who told Selena that she intended to bring their working relationship to an end, which caused the singer to throw herself at the older woman's feet.

"It's over Selena, I can't work for you no more," she claimed to have said in reply. "She went down, she grabbed my feet, and told me not to leave her," Saldivar continued, "and when she was walking to the door, she was going at an angle. I told her, 'Don't close the door.' And in that instant, the gun went off." While it seems an unlikely story, the fact that police failed to include it in their official statement almost blew up in their faces come the trial.

It was Corpus Christi police officers that made the arrest, though the Texas Rangers were also called out to the scene, and one caused a stir when he told the court that Saldivar wasn't happy about the wording of the confession put to her by police. "She hesitated to sign the statement because it didn't have the word 'accident' or 'accidental,'" Ranger Robert Garza said. "It didn't reflect what she had stated, according to her."

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