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Netflix’s ‘Selena y Los Dinos’ Debuts as 1995 Autopsy Report Reemerges

A family‑curated Netflix film reframes her legacy through archival footage, coinciding with media publication of the coroner’s 1995 findings.

Overview

  • Netflix released the Isabel Castro–directed documentary on Nov. 17, featuring never‑before‑seen family archives and intentionally limiting focus on the killing.
  • Us Weekly obtained and republished the 1995 Nueces County autopsy, which ruled homicide from a perforating gunshot wound with massive internal and external bleeding.
  • The coroner reported the bullet entered through Selena’s upper back and right shoulder, traveled through ribs and the upper lung, and critically injured the subclavian artery.
  • Medical records and trial testimony note she was pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m. after futile resuscitation attempts, while Yolanda Saldívar surrendered following a roughly 10‑hour standoff.
  • Saldívar remains imprisoned for first‑degree murder after a 1995 conviction, with parole denied in March 2025 and the next review expected in 2030.