Selena Gomez Lends a Hand to Solve a 38-Year-Old Cold Case

Everyone knows that Selena Gomez is a Hollywood superstar. The singer, actress, songwriter and TV producer is a total jack-of-all-trades.

But now she can add amateur detective to her list of credits after she helped to attempt to solve a 38-year-old cold case, with a little help from her mom, of course.

She Went to the World’s Biggest High School

Selena Gomez didn’t have a typical upbringing. “I went to the biggest high school in the world, which is the Disney Channel,” she told the New York Times. It wasn’t always easy, but it would turn out to be much simpler than solving a long-forgotten criminal case.

But that’s exactly what she did along with her mom and 300 amateur detectives recently in Chicago.

She Broke Out of the Disney Mold

Gomez is used to working under stress. She played Alex Russo on “Wizards of Waverly Place,” but it was a lot of pressure to play the role of the good girl all the time. Eventually, it pushed her to move on to bigger and better things, but being a crime solver didn’t even cross her mind.

She Went from Actress to Producer

Gomez became the producer of the popular, albeit controversial, Netflix series, “13 Reasons Why.” Her experience with the Disney Channel made her relate to the pain the characters on the show went through.

But she didn’t really know what pressure felt like until she tried to solve a mystery that could potentially put an end to a family’s suffering.

She Had a Strained Relationship With Her Mother

Gomez and her mother Mandy Teefey haven’t always had the best mother/daughter relationship. When the singer temporarily reconciled with her then on-again, off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber, Teefey got very angry at her daughter. But things got even more stressful after Gomez got sick.