Court: Brown's confession was not coerced

SANDPOINT — A district judge has ruled that Keith Allen Brown’s confession in the killing of a Priest Lake man was voluntary, court records show.

Brown made the confession after being apprehended in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., and interviewed by a Lee County sheriff’s investigator. Brown and his former wife, Tyrah, were apprehended several months after the body of Leslie Carlton Breaw was found under some brush in Coolin in 2007.

Tyrah Brown initially confessed to shooting Breaw to death to retaliate being allegedly raped by him on a previous occasion. But Brown told investigators that Breaw paid him $56,000 as reparation for his former wife’s alleged rape and ended up shooting Breaw when he continued to make disparaging comments about her, court records indicate.

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