True crime stories

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This series contains research on various people and places (arranged in alphabetical order), in the form of typewritten notes, photographs, scholarly papers, Tejano Press kits, Abraham’s military records, a Selena Boutique catalog and information on Texas radio stations. Yolanda Saldivar’s folder within this series contains her signed murder confession with the Corpus Christi police. In addition, there is extensive information collected on Tejano music and Tejano stars.

Series Description From the Series: The series is organized in the following subseries:Novels (1978-1998) Annotated typescripts for Daddy’s Girl, The Perfect Sonya, Crossed Over, and The Track of Real Desires comprise the bulk of this subseries, with extensive research notes, correspondence, and photographs related to Crossed Over. Correspondence includes letters from Lowry to Karla Faye Tucker, 1989-1992, 1998, plus...

Series Description From the Series: This series contains various interviews with people related to or who had contact with Selena. The interviews consist of conversations recorded on audio cassettes, both in person and by telephone. Some interviews have both audiotapes and transcriptions, while others exist only in one format or the other. Interview subjects include Tejano artists, people in the music business, music critics, family, friends, fans, and acquaintances. Because Patoski’s book was an unauthorized biography, he...

Series Description From the Series: In April of 1996 Little, Brown and Company administered a book signing tour for Selena: Como la Flor. In addition, Patoski attended lectures and discussions about his book and about biographical work in general. A special event called Selena Trial Revisited was a stage for Patoski to promote his book. Found in this folder are faxes to Patoski from his publisher, brochures of the special events he attended, schedules for his appearance, a audio tape of a radio...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival materials following the creation of Beverly Lowry’s book Who Killed These Girls? Cold Case: the Yogurt Shop Murders that will be released October 11, 2016. The publication pertains to the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders of Amy Ayers, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison, and Eliza Thomas at the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt!” shop in Austin, Texas. Included are materials for research such as news articles from Austin American-Statesman, The Austin Chronicle and Austin News8; Austin Police...

Series Description From the Series: This series consists mainly of photocopies of typed court documents. Additionally, there are artist renditions of the State of Texas vs. Yolanda Saldivar trial and an identification card for Patoski to attend the hearing. Other court documents in this series include 1.) Ramiro Burr’s (a writer for San Antonio Express News)lawsuit against Abraham Quintanilla, Jr. and his associates for breach of contract to ghost write a biography of Selena, and 2.) the family...

Series Description From the Series: This series contains various interviews with people related to or who had contact with Selena. The interviews consist of conversations recorded on audio cassettes, both in person and by telephone. Some interviews have both audiotapes and transcriptions, while others exist only in one format or the other. Interview subjects include Tejano artists, people in the music business, music critics, family, friends, fans, and acquaintances. Because Patoski’s book was an unauthorized biography, he...