that's happened since a lot of this information has come out, at least people are beginning to see aaron in a multi-dimensional way. >> he had lost his fortune. he had lost his career. he had lost his freedom. just the the realization of of the waste that your life had become had to have been profound no one will ever know exactly why aaron hernandez ended his life when he did. >> but those closest to him placed some of the blame for his suicide and his erratic behavior on the brain damage he clearly suffered from the game of football. and here's an ironic twist in massachusetts, if a convicted felon dies before his appeal has been heard, then his original conviction is thrown out. so, in the eyes of the law, aaron hernandez died. an innocent man. i'm hill harper. thanks

for watching. >> did i say that? >> funny guitar player. >> guitar. guitar? >> no. you're from texas guitar? >> yeah. where's. >> where's your texas drawl? >> i think i've kind of lost it through the years. i used to be really bad, but i think traveling and everything, i've kind of picked up everybody's accents and kind of made it into one. >> welcome to how it really happened. i'm hill harper. she is a latina icon, cut down at 23, on the cusp of super stardom, an all american kid raised in texas whose charm, talent and legend loomed so large she is known only by one

name selena. it was the introduction of an obsessive fan into selena's world that would change everything. it would alter the path of selena's life and ultimately lead to her shocking murder. the events of that day bizarre, confusing, and for many, inconceivable. here's how it really happened. >> i was wearing this long dress and what was going through my mind is like, please selena, don't fall. >> i'll be so embarrassed. and it was. it was great. i'll never forget it. it's something to remember always. always. >> today we're looking into the death of selena. >> there you go. >> and the woman who is accused of murdering her. >> initially, what we heard was that selena had been shot. >> police officers and swat team members are still trying to negotiate with the alleged killer are we going to show her the gun? >> you could hear her crying. and a lot of whimpering, saying that she. she had done something real bad to her

friend. she made it clear that whatever happened to her, she didn't mean it. i didn't mean to do it. >> i need you. >> i didn't, you know. i don't believe it. >> how could this have happened? >> we have lost a superstar. >> it's heartbreaking. >> why would somebody kill this 23 year old singer? >> why would she kill her? it made no sense at all at the time selena died, she was the biggest act in tejano music. >> the music is a mixture of music. you have the german polka. you have a little bit of country. you have mexican music. and it's all fuzed into one melting pot. she was working on her first english language album, and it included the track dreaming of you cause i'm dreaming of you tonight till. >> tomorrow i'll be holding

you tight. >> the excitement was insane. you know this was one of the biggest dreams. >> we've waited this for this for a very long time and really looking forward to it. >> there was no question in my mind that she was at least the equal or was going to blow past both gloria estefan and madonna. >> people predicted she was going to be a huge, huge star. >> when did you know you wanted to be a performer? >> very young. i started singing when i was six and a half and recorded my first record when i was eight years old. abraham, selena's father, created this band with his kids, named it selena y los dinos. my father had this really good job and he was about 81. the economy went down. we went under. we had to file for bankruptcy. we lost everything. so that's how we got into the music as a profession. that was our way of putting bread and butter on the table. >> the band starts touring and every weekend los ninos are out there playing on the toronto

circuit. >> her father was her manager. >> her brother, a.b., played a bass and her sister suzette played the drums. >> and later she fell in love with and wound up marrying her guitar player, chris perez. it's great to have somebody that i can share all this good stuff with selena and i recorded for capitol emi latin during the same time, and we performed at events together. >> it is a real danceable music. >> she was a lovely, lovely person. >> she was incredibly charismatic, like the whole thing wasn't taping. >> she was very down to earth. >> i don't think i ever saw her upset. >> she was bubbly and fun. >> i don't think i've ever come across a human that was that kind. >> just her spirit, just her energy. her laughter was contagious i'm just joking. >> no, more like menudo, that's what robert said in the

early 90s, things started to change with selena. she's got a string of hits that were huge. she's got bidi bidi bom bom bidi bidi bom bom bidi bidi bom bom bidi bidi bom bom bidi bidi bom bom bidi bidi bidi bidi bidi bom bom. she's got como la flor como la flor como la flor. >> amor tanto amor me too. >> and she's got a. libido por las calles. it's talking about a forbidden love. >> selena was becoming a bigger and bigger star through those years. >> she won a grammy in 1994 for best mexican-american album. >> i didn't think i had a chance because of all the top names that were in the category. >> so just the venue just started getting bigger. the crowd just started getting bigger. >> we've broken the record twice in a row at the houston astrodome for attendance record.

>> there were star kept going up and up and up. she was crossing boundaries that had not been crossed before. >> that's really neat, you know, whereas before it was like, they don't even know i exist. now they do. this is really neat. >> in the middle of all these things blowing up for selena comes another big change. and that's a woman named yolanda saldivar. >> i think anybody, anybody would have imagined what unfolded. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> he was a boss from the beginning. >> luther said, i have a sound in my head. i got to get it out. you are my shining star, my daughter. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> if we were to be able to talk to luther as fans, we'd be able to say. we just love you. >> luther. never too much new year's day at eight on cnn, introducing new aerocon gel.

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competing with anybody, i'm sure about what i'm doing, and i don't feel like i have to be looking back or seeing what the next. the person next to me is doing. there's room enough for everybody. >> we don't know why exactly she shot selena. she just said that she did something and she didn't want to do. and my friend and she kept saying that over and over again. my friend, you know, that she shot her and but she didn't intend to do that at the beginning of the 1990s, tejano music was growing immensely, and so was selena. >> and that was right when she met yolanda. >> yolanda saldivar comes into the picture because she's a fan. >> she was a registered nurse who was living in san antonio, goes to selena concert, sees selena loves her, and begins to reach out to abraham. >> we met yolanda back in 1991. that first initial encounter

with her was just a voice on the telephone. >> she contacted selena's father multiple times. she asked if she could start a fan club and people would send in their money, and they'd get sent a t-shirt or pictures or other things like that. >> she's quite persistent in asking that she be the founder and that she run it eventually, abraham said, why not? >> and yolanda did a pretty good job of getting people to join. the numbers grew. i mean, it grew into the thousands pretty quickly. so there was some money on the table yolanda started out as a kind of an outsider, but worked her way into the inner circle. >> yolanda then started doing other things for selena. >> selena, by all accounts, really liked yolanda. >> yolanda builds up a role as gatekeeper. you want to get to her, you got to go through me. >> and it gave yolanda a purpose in life. >> she's somebody all of a sudden she was always around

selena and her family. >> if you see pictures, if you see footage, you always see that she was right next to her. >> she was such a nurturer, especially with selena. she was over nurturing to the point. now. there was almost obsession i have three businesses, actually two businesses. >> the third one is going to be opening up october 1st in san antonio. while her music is booming, she's also becoming really famous for her fashion. for her style, she designed much of what she wore herself. >> singing was her job, but fashion was her passion well, there you go. >> just like she's beautiful. look at that. >> and so she opened her boutiques in san antonio and corpus, where she could sell outfits that were very much inspired by her stage outfits, and people ate it up. this unique clothing. you're not going to find it at any department store. we have a little bit of everything. we carry clothing and we carry

salon services, which is like perms, hair weaves. >> when she goes off to realize her personal dream of designing fashion and opening boutiques, yolanda is right in there with her and by her side. >> it was believed that yolanda had done such a great job with the fan club. why not make her manager of the boutiques? now remember, she's a nurse by trade. really? no business experience at all. but suddenly she had a pivotal role in the family organization. >> it got to a point where yolanda saldivar had access to selena's whole business empire. this gave yolanda saldivar the opening she needed to do whatever it is she wanted to do. >> we accepted her as a friend. never in my wildest dreams did i ever foresee, or even the thought ever entered my mind

that this woman would do something like this. >> yolanda was selena's right hand person. she was extremely manipulative. she has a way of finding out what moves people and how to get people to do what she wants. >> i don't think they had any idea that they were dealing with the kind of person that wasn't at all deserving of their trust. >> so at the end of 1994, i guess yolanda got an idea that wouldn't it be nice for all the employees of the boutiques to pool their money and buy selena a ring to show selena how much she was cared for? >> yolanda had taken up some funds from the employees to give selena a present and selena has a collection of faberge eggs at her home, so they made her a ring with a little egg on top of it. >> yolanda told her, selena, i bought this for you. this is a present for you. so when selena opened it, she loved it. she took it and she put it on and said, this, this is our

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so march 1995 comes around selena is juggling a lot. >> she's working on her english language album, and one of the songs that came out of that album was i could fall in love. >> i could fall in love. >> with you she's got these two really successful boutiques. >> she's looking at expansion into mexico. things are going really, really well. >> and yolanda was in charge of everything, but people were complaining about things that were happening. >> mr. quintanilla, selena's father, started getting phone calls. the phone calls were all the same. mr. quintanilla. i've seen in my money to the fan club, and i haven't gotten anything. >> abraham went back and began to look at the books and see what's going on here. and as he reviewed the books of not only the boutiques, but the

books of the fan club, he began to see that there were discrepancies, and he began to suspect that there was embezzlement going on. >> abraham quintanilla came to the conclusion that yolanda saldivar had embezzled about $30,000 from selena quintanilla's businesses. >> she was never charged with it. she was never convicted of this. but abraham believed he had his evidence. >> then a lot of employees at selena's boutique started to complain to selena about yolanda saldivar behavior towards them. >> she tried to be very controlling. >> she wanted to be in charge completely of who had access to selena. >> there were some people that were concerned about yolanda being around selena. one of those people was martin gomez. >> we had ordered zippers and the zippers were delivered to yolanda's home, and i had my assistant go pick them up and

when she came back, she goes, martin, it's very scary. it's wall to wall pictures of selena. and i remember thinking, this is kind of weird. you know, it's kind of a little bit. obsessive. >> he thought, this isn't good. >> and then one time i went to the dentist and my insurance hadn't been paid out. and so i came back and i said, yolanda, my insurance hasn't been paid out. and they're saying it hasn't been paid out for six months. and she says, oh, i'll fix it, but don't tell selena. well, of course i'm going to tell selena and selena, says martin. she's got it under control. don't worry about it. and that kind of started us in turmoil. >> he could see yolanda manipulating selena. he knew there was something wrong there. so he separated from the business. >> i basically went to her and i said, i don't think this is going to work. girl, i said, i'm really nervous. she's going to hurt you. and i meant

hurt her physically. i think selena had hurt her reputation. i think weeks had passed by. she calls me on the phone and i remember i said, selena, i'm really scared for you. one thing that selena would always say in spanish cuidate take care of yourself. and i remember telling her. girl cuidate she giggled. she goes, you worry too much. and that was the last conversation that i had with her. >> we're just really excited and we just hope that, you know, we can do the best that we can and people accept our music and all these things kind of kept coming up, coming up. >> and they all led back to yolanda saldivar. >> the problem was selena didn't believe her dad. artie didn't believe martin gomez. she can't be doing this.

>> she doesn't really want to believe that somebody who's become a trusted friend and is in her inner circle is doing this damage. >> so the family decided, okay, you don't believe us, selena. let's bring her in here and ask her those questions. >> so mr. quintanilla called a meeting that the studio on thursday, march the 9th, and there was this confrontation at the meeting between mr. quintanilla and selena on one side and yolanda on the other. >> by this time, you know, things were were going downhill. we had showed her the evidence that we had. >> she needed to prove that she was not taking money. and if she couldn't prove that, she would no longer be associated with selena. >> yolanda denies everything, says she can come up with the records that is, that are missing, and says that she can

prove that she's innocent. >> you aren't going to prosecute her or anything? >> no, sir. we were going to fire her, but i wasn't going to prosecute her. i was, you know, angered at the moment because she. everything that i showed her and asked her about it, she had no no answer for it. and i was frustrated because we knew that she was lying. >> so abraham, who's now heard enough, relieves her of her managerial duties and tells her to go. >> he took her off bank accounts. he he took her name off anything where she could continue to steal money. allegedly. >> i never in my wildest dreams did i think that this woman was going to react this way. >> so yolanda takes off. she goes to a gun store in san antonio, a place to shoot and buys the gun. >> the proprietor said she told him she was a home health care

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have predicted the horrifying fatal turn the story would take i have to ask you this because i know you've heard this before, but they keep calling you the next gloria estefan. >> how does it feel to be compared to somebody like gloria? i take it as a compliment. >> yolanda had spearheaded a campaign amongst the employees to buy a ring for selena. >> she loved this ring. she wore it all the time. >> we later learned that yolanda had allegedly collected money from a group of people for this gift. got the ring designed, presented it to selena like it was a gift from yolanda alone, and paid for it with the company credit card. >> it was a really ominous sign of what was still to come. >> looking back, this is a huge red flag. if she had known that yolanda really didn't buy the ring with her money. i think that would have changed things. i don't think i'd be sitting here today. >> i'm not sure that anybody

ever suspected that she was capable of murder. >> we know that yolanda had a gun. we believe that the situation was highly charged and that yolanda probably based on what she said, was angry at being confronted about something. >> the only eyewitnesses said it's an accident because she did it intentionally or she did not do it intentionally. >> it's tax time. it's march, and it's time to gather a bunch of documents from the businesses to file tax returns by the end of march, the quintanilla family was convinced yolanda saldivar was embezzling from the fan club from the boutique, from all of selena's related businesses that she had had authority to sign off on. >> you got to remember that selena was just starting her business. she had just started the boutiques this past year,

so. so she was still trying to get things rolling and organized. >> selena was in the middle of recording the english album. >> she was also on tour performing sometimes three concerts a weekend. >> she'd just done this concert, selling out the astrodome, and it was an incredible performance. it really was the women's choir. >> lesson number one. there to pick them up and melissa agard erin west la la lesson and she was just literally so busy that she was counting on this person to get all the records to where they needed to go. >> selena asked yolanda for the bank statements, and there seems to be some hemming and hawing. >> selena is realizing something is wrong. >> selena kept calling yolanda, telling her, i need those documents. i need those documents. so yolanda agreed that she would drive to corpus christi. she wasn't taking the documents. she was taking the gun

so on march 30th, yolanda drives to corpus and checks into the days inn yolanda calls selena and says, selena, i've got your papers here. i come by selena actually gets in the car and drives herself to the scene where she'll ultimately be murdered because she trusts she trusted someone that was, in essence, evil. >> selena shows up at room 158 at the days inn motel. >> at that meeting, she was firing yolanda. >> yes, sir. >> selena decided she was going to cut her losses and let her go, but she needed the bank statements. >> yolanda had told selena that on her last trip to mexico, that she had been raped. so

selena, being the giving person she was, accompanied yolanda to the local hospital like any good friend would do. >> i mean, how can you ignore somebody who said they've been sexually assaulted when selena and yolanda came into the e.r., selena was a little bit guarded, but yet she. >> you could tell that she cared about this woman. and yolanda's demeanor was very flat. >> there were some major discrepancies. while yolanda was giving her history to the nurses. >> yolanda told me that she had been assaulted in mexico and hit with a bat from what i could see, there was no injuries that fit that pattern. >> yolanda had the clothes on that. she said she was sexually assaulted in the people who worked at the hospital were suspicious because the damage to the clothes looked like damage that somebody had done

with a pair of scissors. they didn't look like something that had happened during an assault. >> her story doesn't add up. >> we think yolanda's motivation was to get sympathy from selena, and maybe things could turn around and selena would forgive her for what was going on about 11:00, i went to see my next patient and selena stopped by the room where i was at the time, and she just looked at me and she says, do you believe her? >> and i said, do i believe what? and she said, do you think she's been raped? >> and i said, honey, it's not up to me to decide whether she's been assaulted or not. >> she says she has. then she has and she said, oh, well, okay. and she left. and then i thought to myself, right at that point, wow, she's got a doubt.

>> i think selena had finally seen and understood what her father had been telling her, or what martin gomez told her. yolanda has been stealing from you. she hasn't been telling the truth. selena drives yolanda back to the days inn and at the door they're talking. it's pretty clear it's over. >> selena wants to drop her off, get her paperwork, and leave. >> by the time that hotel room meeting comes along, it had risen to a high boil. >> nobody else was there, so we don't know what the conversation actually was other than what yolanda says. >> they have a conversation, presumably about the bank statements, and at some point a gun comes out when we look back 100 years from now, we're going to say, this is where everything

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had taken the gun out of her purse. >> selena saw the gun and was attempting to leave the room. >> selena turned around and p.o.w.! one single shot. >> we know selena was shot with the door open because the blood splatter evidence was on the outside of the door. >> a bullet enters beneath her right shoulder blade and comes out through the front after selena gets shot, she runs to the hotel lobby, which was not that close to the room. she ran around the pool where she dropped her purse. she had already dropped her briefcase and her phone in the grassy area. >> she is bleeding profusely, leaving a trail of blood. >> i was standing in the lobby with ruben de leon. >> i looked towards the right. >> there was a window. >> i see a lady running towards

one of the doors. i had no idea who she was. >> i had no idea selena came through the front door quickly clutching her stomach, and there was a lot of blood pooling in the sweatshirt and she sort of stumbled and said, help me, help me, i've been shot. >> we meet right in the middle of the lobby and kind of make contact there, and then moved her. i guess we're trying to hide her, keep her safe, because we just figured somebody was running behind her with a gun immediately i went into my office and called 911. >> what is your location days inn martel. it's 901 navigation boulevard. >> what's wrong man? we have a woman ran in the lobby. said she's been shot. she's laying on the floor and there's blood. how old is she? she looks about 20. >> we were asking for towels and just compressing on her wound. we started asking her who?

>> who shot you? and she mentioned yolanda's name. and she also mentioned the room number. >> okay, who shot her? the lady in 158 shot the lady over here. okay. is the lady in 158 still there? >> the desk clerk looked up at the registration card and saw that room 158 had been rented by yolanda saldivar her name? >> yes. yolanda. yolanda. she's a suspect. yes, ma'am. what's her last name elle reeve. >> and she's responding as best as she could and then started fading and and fading. and we were just telling her to hang in there. that help was on its way, and the ambulance was there in 2 or 3 minutes. >> they were extremely quick. >> by the time they got there, she was unconscious. and they wheeled her out. >> selena was rushed to the hospital with the hope that they can save her, and the hospital is not that far away. >> during the ambulance ride,

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selena running from the room, and they saw yolanda come out after her holding a gun. >> yolanda saldivar went back into the room, grabbed a gun in a towel, and goes into her truck and she drives out to leave. >> and then she gets blocked in by police cars arriving. and then she puts the gun to her head, where she locks herself in a standoff with police. >> they call in hostage negotiators to try to talk her down and talk her out into giving herself up. >> we are standing by live in corpus christi, right across the street from the days inn, the assistant police chief tells us that they have provided the suspect with a telephone and have been in constant contact with her, trying to get her to give herself up. >> when we finally started talking, yolanda was asking about selena. where is she? how is she? i told her that she was at the hospital and that

they're working on her. her emotional state was extremely fragile i'm gonna kill myself, larry. >> i want to kill myself, larry. >> she keeps insisting she's done something real, real bad to her friend. this is exactly why i purchased it. >> to kill myself. i told people i was going to kill myself, not selena. i didn't kalen deboer going to kill anybody. >> we have hundreds and hundreds of people, fans of selena quintanilla, coming by, waiting to see how this is going to turn out. the assistant police chief tells us that they are going to wait it out. all they want is to get her out safe, and they don't want her to hurt herself or anybody else. >> she basically holds the police at bay for hours. negotiators talk to her continuously and never give up. >> it hurts a lot. but at one point during the negotiations, we decided that there needed to be a switch. and so we

introduced isaac valencia, another negotiator. >> you no, no, you're not going to do that, yolanda. >> yolanda, it's not going to solve anything. >> yolanda. >> he talks about religion. his job is to come up with any reason possible to get her out of that truck i'm trusting god that you're going to come out. >> and everything will be okay in the eyes of jesus christ and the holy spirit. >> about halfway through the negotiations, one of the officers mentioned something like, well, you know, anything can happen with guns. guns may go off. and she seized upon this. i was the gun. >> i'm telling you, you need to kill my dog. >> we could only assume what happened. and yolanda's version is that she took the gun to commit suicide, and that she pointed the gun to her head. and that she told selena to close the door. she

accidentally shot the gun. i pulled it out. >> it just went off because the barrel was back. >> i didn't mean to do it by accident. >> she said it was an accident. but we know that that's not true. >> you have to have a certain amount of pounds of pressure to pull a trigger. guns just don't go off. >> and the natural reaction for somebody who's been involved in an accidental shooting is to drop the gun immediately, start screaming and try to help the person who's hurt. >> she's a registered nurse. if this was an accident, why didn't she call 911? never did it. never did it? nope. >> she didn't do any of that stuff. in fact, she went back in her room, covered the gun up, and then got back in her truck to escape. this wasn't an accident. it was an intentional act of murder. guns don't go off by themselves. somebody has to pull the trigger. and that's exactly what yolanda did

i think there were several things that combined in that room, in room 158 on that day. >> yolanda loved her life with selena. >> her life was over. she wasn't selena's fan club president anymore. she wasn't running the boutique. she wasn't selena's business partner or. or running buddy or best friend. all that was over. she was back to being yolanda saldivar. and in the most selfish act imaginable. if i can't have you, no one can. bang finally, after 9.5 hours, they convince her to come out of that truck i'm coming out. >> okay. >> get the door open. tell me when the door is open. where's larry? >> he's out there. oh, they got her i got her. >> get her at 930 at night, she was talked out of her truck, and she finally was placed under arrest. >> and she's she's going. oh,

larry. oh, larry, i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. how is she? >> the place where the bullet went through. selena severed a major artery in her body. if it had been an inch or two in another direction, she probably wouldn't have been killed. >> all efforts to resuscitate her were futile. >> she was declared dead early afternoon. >> it was just so unreal and bizarre and sad and tragic how somebody so good could have such a horrible ending. >> it was very devastating. um, for someone very young to have all these dreams just wiped away i mean it was hard to live with for a long time.

>> when one of your children is killed this way. it's like somebody grabbed a knife and stuck it right in your heart. and the wound will always be there for the rest of your life so when selena dies, her family, her label, the people she worked with are left with this impossible decision of what to do with the music she left behind. >> she had already recorded four tracks for her english language album. >> this was selena's dream to cross over into mainstream. we had been working towards this goal for the last two years, and i want to make sure that her dream comes true. >> and so they decided to release it and dreaming of you became an instant hit. cause i'm. >> dreaming of you tonight till. tomorrow i'll be holding

you tight. >> the album comes out, goes double platinum, goes straight to the top of the pop charts. >> this is what she worked really, really hard for her whole life. and it's just sad and tragic that she wasn't able to see it ringo starr. >> yolanda is charged with first degree murder. >> the district attorney's office filed a formal complaint accusing yolanda saldivar of the murder of selena quintanilla. perez? >> we tried the case in houston, and she was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. >> the jury, having found the defendant guilty of murder, says her punishment at confinement in the institutional division of the texas department of criminal justice for life but it was, you know, a hollow win because selena's gone. >> she's not coming back. and

while justice was served, it was still this idea. why did this have to even happen? >> yolanda could have just walked away and found herself another job. to this day, for the life of me, i just can't figure out why she'd done this i think selena is remembered as much as a person as she is as a performer. >> she was this kind soul that, for all intents and purposes, didn't kind of understand the enormity of fame that she had acquired in a short period of time. >> to me, in my mind, i see her every day. i hear her music. to me, she's still alive. >> i mean, she really was special. she would never tell you that. or she never felt like she was. but she really

was. >> she had so gracefully and so successfully embraced her roots, her culture and her heritage. >> and in that way, she still continues to inspire new generations you know, you hope for something. >> you wish for things to happen. you know, when, when you're not doing as well. and when it comes around, it's like, oh, you know, you want to slow down, but you have to stop and think where you came from. and you appreciate it even more yolanda saldivar declined our request for an interview. >> she is still in prison and up for parole in 2025. selena was buried in her hometown of corpus christi, texas, two years after her death. a movie starring jennifer lopez was released, telling the true story of selena's incredible life. it solidified her legacy and inspired future generations. selena once said that when she died, she wanted to be remembered not only as