Murder suspect Burns takes the stand before defense rests

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A man accused of killing an Elkton woman ? and alsocharged with assaulting six other women and suspected of killing three more ? briefly took the stand Monday in his murder trial, the first time he has publicly spoken since the trial started last week.

Dressed in a gray suit, Charles Eugene Burns, 35, spoke quietly but with a noticeable country twang.

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