Obsessive strip club regular 'paid dancer thousands before shooting her dead
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
A man has been charged with murder after he was accused of stalking, threatening, and paying a strip club dancer before fatally shooting her.
Authorities said Stanley Szeliga, 54, is alleged to have paid Abigail Saldaña, 22, around a thousand dollars after he frequented Rick’s Cabaret, the club where Saldaña worked in Texas.
Szeliga was accused of fatally shooting the mother of two, behind the wheel of her car in Fort Worth last week, not far from the club. At roughly 9pm on October 26, a witness reported watching a car veer off an exit ramp onto a grassy area, police said. The 911 caller described bullet holes in the car’s passenger side and a person inside who wasn’t moving.
Responding officers and emergency personnel later pronounced Saldaña dead. Three shell casings and broken glass were found not far from Saldaña’s car.
Saldaña had expressed serious concerns about Szeliga, posting a video on her Instagram on October 14 about a tracking device she found underneath her car. A club manager showed Saldaña’s post to investigators, alerting them to her fears about Szeliga, a warrant recorded.
The warrant stated: “The manager indicated that Abigail was frightened of Stan because he was stalking and harassing her.”
Authorities said that footage obtained from a traffic camera near Saldaña’s apartment showed Szeliga’s red pick-up tailing Saldaña’s car. Investigators said that license plate records and additional surveillance footage from that intersection show Szeliga’s car passing the same spot near Saldaña’s home at least five other times before she was shot, which were indications of stalking.
Saldaña’s mother, Jessica Contreras, told the Star-Telegram : “I don’t know where she was going that night. We got a text about 6:30 p.m. that night, and the shooting happened about two hours later.”
According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by local outlets, Szeliga had posted on Instagram about making Zelle payments to Saldaña at times for $800, $200, and $1,000.
Three hours before Saldaña’s murder, Szeliga posted that he paid Saldaña $3,000. Szeliga threatened in the post to report her for alleged prostitution, detectives said. In one Instagram post on Szeliga’s page, he claimed that he “envisioned a future,” with Saldaña but insisted that she had been lying to him and that he was a victim.
He wrote: “I never thought I’d be one of those guys taken advantage of. Sharing for awareness. Abigail S. and I, since July 2021, we have been enjoying each other’s company.
“She’s so beautiful and personable that I envisioned a future with her. But dealing with all the lies is overwhelming, I realize that’s part of your primary job as an adult entertainer. If you only leave your second job, being in a high-end prostitution ring we could move forward. Yes, this pays $2000 per session, but it’s illegal. And having a boyfriend whilst having sex with other men?!”
According to police documents, Szeliga was arrested after initially agreeing to meet with detectives and then failing to show up. Police obtained a warrant to enter his home the night after Saldaña’s murder. After he refused to leave the residence, a SWAT team found him on a balcony in his apartment with wounds on his face and neck that appeared to be self-inflicted.
After being treated at a local hospital, Szeliga was charged in connection with Saldaña’s death on Thursday and is being held in the Tarrant County Jail.
Contreas told WFAA that her daughter was a hard-working and courageous mother: “He took her away from me, and I’m gonna make sure every time he has a court date, he will see my face there. He’s gonna see that Abby was never alone.”
Authorities said Stanley Szeliga, 54, is alleged to have paid Abigail Saldaña, 22, around a thousand dollars after he frequented Rick’s Cabaret, the club where Saldaña worked in Texas.
Szeliga was accused of fatally shooting the mother of two, behind the wheel of her car in Fort Worth last week, not far from the club. At roughly 9pm on October 26, a witness reported watching a car veer off an exit ramp onto a grassy area, police said. The 911 caller described bullet holes in the car’s passenger side and a person inside who wasn’t moving.
Responding officers and emergency personnel later pronounced Saldaña dead. Three shell casings and broken glass were found not far from Saldaña’s car.
Saldaña had expressed serious concerns about Szeliga, posting a video on her Instagram on October 14 about a tracking device she found underneath her car. A club manager showed Saldaña’s post to investigators, alerting them to her fears about Szeliga, a warrant recorded.
The warrant stated: “The manager indicated that Abigail was frightened of Stan because he was stalking and harassing her.”
Authorities said that footage obtained from a traffic camera near Saldaña’s apartment showed Szeliga’s red pick-up tailing Saldaña’s car. Investigators said that license plate records and additional surveillance footage from that intersection show Szeliga’s car passing the same spot near Saldaña’s home at least five other times before she was shot, which were indications of stalking.
Saldaña’s mother, Jessica Contreras, told the Star-Telegram : “I don’t know where she was going that night. We got a text about 6:30 p.m. that night, and the shooting happened about two hours later.”
According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by local outlets, Szeliga had posted on Instagram about making Zelle payments to Saldaña at times for $800, $200, and $1,000.
Three hours before Saldaña’s murder, Szeliga posted that he paid Saldaña $3,000. Szeliga threatened in the post to report her for alleged prostitution, detectives said. In one Instagram post on Szeliga’s page, he claimed that he “envisioned a future,” with Saldaña but insisted that she had been lying to him and that he was a victim.
He wrote: “I never thought I’d be one of those guys taken advantage of. Sharing for awareness. Abigail S. and I, since July 2021, we have been enjoying each other’s company.
“She’s so beautiful and personable that I envisioned a future with her. But dealing with all the lies is overwhelming, I realize that’s part of your primary job as an adult entertainer. If you only leave your second job, being in a high-end prostitution ring we could move forward. Yes, this pays $2000 per session, but it’s illegal. And having a boyfriend whilst having sex with other men?!”
According to police documents, Szeliga was arrested after initially agreeing to meet with detectives and then failing to show up. Police obtained a warrant to enter his home the night after Saldaña’s murder. After he refused to leave the residence, a SWAT team found him on a balcony in his apartment with wounds on his face and neck that appeared to be self-inflicted.
After being treated at a local hospital, Szeliga was charged in connection with Saldaña’s death on Thursday and is being held in the Tarrant County Jail.
Contreas told WFAA that her daughter was a hard-working and courageous mother: “He took her away from me, and I’m gonna make sure every time he has a court date, he will see my face there. He’s gonna see that Abby was never alone.”
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Nothing like confessing to patronizing a sex worker.
Just as background checks are required to purchase guns, perhaps mental evaluations should be required to enter strip clubs. Too many people view strip clubs as bizarro worlds where guys can suddenly land hot chicks, when in non-club environments, those same guys have girls cross the street to avoid interacting with certain guys.
Those girls seeing nothing in us other than the contents our wallets. If you ever begin to think otherwise, give your car keys, cash, and debit/credit cards to someone who will keep you out of clubs:
*pot stirred*
A flip side that you see is women who get into a fuck buddy relationship, with the plan that love will be on the horizon, once you make it to the town of Pussy Whipped. Also a long but not impossible shot. These women will often complain of being used, analogous to the men who complain of gold digging.
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"This sort of stuff in strip clubs is (generally) not so different from things that happen in civvie dating."
True, but with 2 caveats:
1-Civvie girls usually have less reason to lead on a guy vs a stripper who benefits financially (often significantly)
2-Some guys view strippers as easily conquered, due to her profession. A girl who would never be approached in public by a guy (due to the out-of-my league mentality) suddenly becomes attainable in the eyes of the guy, merely because he incorrectly believes he is high-value to her, as a result of her being a stripper.
Some guys go into clubs with the mindset that he can "save her from the profession", not realizing that (a) she doesn't want/need to be saved, (b) she very possibly has higher earnings than him, and (c) if she wanted to be with a PL, she likely could find a younger/more attractive/richer guy easily (either inside or outside of club).
Also, most guys can't handle dating a girl that dances. Clubs are littered with stories of guys who meet girls at clubs, then expect her to stop dancing to be exclusively with him.
He also wrote:
"These women will often complain of being used, analogous to the men who complain of gold digging."
This one is on the girls. They are happy to oblige a man in his requests for certain activities, in return for good compensation, but then comes to expect that she receive those same funds for nothing in return, as time passes.
She plays the "I feel like a prostitute" card in order to garner sympathy, in hopes that the guy will feel bad. This is dangerous for the girl when dealing with an unstable PL. A stable guy merely recognizes that the situation has played its course, and move on to the next provider. It doesn't end as cleanly in the event of unstable individuals, though.