Shropshire Murders

Provided here are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Shropshire. They include the Rev. Robert Foulkes, who killed his illegitimate child in 1678; the murder of Catherine Lewis by John Mapp at Longden in 1867; the horrific axe murders committed by John Doughty at Church Stretton in 1924; and the tragic death of Dennis O’Neill, who was beaten and starved by his foster parents in 1944.