Gloria Applegate had fallen on hard times. While we know little about her we do know she was a mother and was beloved by her family who knew she was troubled. She was arrested several times for solicitation, from which we can infer that she had developed a drug habit and was in the same place many recreational drug users eventually find themselves, struggling with addiction and hitting rock bottom.
But Gloria Applegate had a family that loved her, so she had a chance. She had a chance to pick up the pieces and regain control of her life. She had the motivation to do so. Applegate could have escaped her demons. But there was one demon who would not let her escape, Daniel Estrada-Lopez:
An illegal immigrant convicted in the shooting death of a Hamilton woman has been sentenced to 33 years to life in prison.
Butler County Common Pleas Judge Patricia Oney handed down the sentence Monday afternoon, Nov. 10. Daniel Estrada-Lopez was convicted of aggravated murder with a gun specification for killing Gloria Applegate in an alley behind East Avenue on June. 1.
Applegate, 32, was the mother of teenage two sons. She was known to Hamilton police as a prostitute who had four convictions for solicitation.
Defense attorney David Brewer did not dispute that his client was guilty of murder, but said whatever happened in the alley before the shot was fired was consensual.
The prosecution pointed to the fact that Applegate was found nude in the alley and had saliva on her breast. They said the position of the gunshot wound was evidence Estrada-Lopez was on top of Applegate attempting to rape her when he got angry and fired the shot.
Before sentencing, Estrada-Lopez addressed the court through an interpreter offering an apology and claiming not to remember shooting Applegate.
“I just want to say I am sorry to the judge and to the victim’s family,” Estrada-Lopez said. “I was drunk, I don’t know how it happened.”
Defense attorney David Brewer told the judge the less severe sentence of 23 years to life would be most appropriate for his client, noting he has a minor criminal background in the United States and until the incident was a working to help support his girlfriend’s family.
Alice Applegate, Gloria’s aunt, did not accept Estrada-Lopez’s apology, noting he showed no remorse during the trial or even a reaction to seeing crime scene photos of her niece’s body.
“If he had not been caught, I don’t know that Gloria would have been his last victim,” Applegate said.
The rape and murder of prostitutes, or women equated to prostitutes, is part of the culture of misogyny Dr. Deborah Shurman-Kaufln, author of Vultures: Profiling Sadistic Serial Killers warned us is being imported from Latin America in her excellent essay Importing Violence: The Danger of Immigration from Violent Cultures. Sexual violence against women is out of control in many areas just across our border, and we are developing the same problems.
Gloria Applegate was raped and murdered by a man who thought that because she was a prostitute she was fair game. This attitude festers because we have changed from an assimilationist model of immigration to the more politically correct “multicultural” model. More women will die until we demand people coming to our country shed the third world barbarism of their homes and adopt American values, including the essential dignity of all people and the right of women, even prostitutes, to say no without fearing for their lives.