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November 3, 2021, 7:36 am
Abigail “Abby” Saldaña was a young mom and exotic dancer who worked at Rick’s Cabaret in Fort Worth, TX—until the 22-year-old was shot to death by her stalker.
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Two weeks prior to her murder, Saldaña found a tracking device on her car. She documented it—not only with a police report, but also in a video that she posted to her Instagram account.
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In the clip, Saldaña removes a small black box from the underside of her vehicle. She comments that she doesn’t know what it is, but that it looks to her like a tracker of some kind. When she brings it indoors and opens it to see what’s inside, it is indeed a tracking device.
“This is so crazy, you guys; so crazy. Who would do this?” Saldaña says. She goes on to tell her viewers, “This is why you’ve got to be careful.”
Saldaña captioned the video, “Check under your cars ladies! This is no joke and sometimes you think it will never be you!”
Fort Worth police reportedly found Saldaña shot to death in her car. While many details remain unclear in the press at this time, it appears that Saldaña was driving down Highway 183 at the time of her death. Someone called in her death as a major automobile accident on the highway. Police reported her dead at the scene.
Police told the press that it was only after Saldaña’s murder that they learned she’d been having problems with the suspect, Stanley Szliga, 54, of Irving, TX. The problem with that story, though, is that Saldaña reported finding the tracker on her car weeks before she died.
It was open knowledge at Rick’s Cabaret that Saldaña was being harassed by Szliga, and that she was scared of him “because he was stalking and harassing her.”
A SWAT team reportedly forced their way into Szliga’s apartment on Oct 27, where police found him out on his balcony. According to reports, Szliga had “several self-inflicted cut wounds on various parts of his body.” He was then arrested and charged with murder.
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Online records show that Szliga is being held on a $250,000 bond at the Tarrant County Lon Evans Correction Center in Fort Worth. As of Nov. 3, the investigation remains ongoing. At the time of this writing, no one seems to be answering the question of why police didn’t take Saldaña’s formal report of the tracking device seriously enough to protect her. Or why her child now has to grow up without a mother. Or why her mother has to live the rest of her life having lost a daughter.
*First Published: November 3, 2021, 7:36 am
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