The man wanted for allegedly beating his wife to death will appear in a Cherokee County court on Monday after surrendering to authorities in Mexico this weekend.Rodney Burton had been the prime suspect in the beating death of Kimberly Burton.
Burton's nude body was discovered in her home Jan. 19 in the 300 block of Arlington Circle in the Rivergreen subdivision, with the cause of death listed as “blunt force trauma” to the head. Burton had been employed in Canton as an optician.
Rodney Burton, 41, who is charged with murder and two counts of aggravated assault, had been on the run in Mexico before turning himself in Saturday afternoon. He reportedly spent the last two months in Cancun and Cozumel.
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