One of the most brutal murders remembered in this county is the rape & killing of Christina Collins by two men in 1839.
Her body was discovered in the canal at Rugeley; and so she is buried in the town, not far from where she was found, even though she was not from this area at all.
As her family was not rich, this, her gravestone, was paid for by strangers: local people disturbed and horrified by the "end of the unhappy woman".
Even to this day, people leave flowers so that crimes against women may not be forgot.
Sad but poignant.
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