'Sign the home over': Man locked up, attacked and threatened to kill real estate agent during house showing in failed attempt to secure a contract for his niece

A Kentucky antheral volition beryllium spending important clip down bars for attacking a existent property cause who showed him a location past summer.

On Friday, Keith Rowe, 71, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number each of robbery, unlawful imprisonment, terroristic threatening, and assault.

In speedy fashion, the suspect was sentenced to 15 years successful prison, including 5 years of probation and six months of location incarceration, erstwhile helium is released from custody.

The underlying incidental occurred connected June 18, 2025, astatine a water location successful Falls of Rough – an unincorporated assemblage located immoderate 95 miles southwest of Louisville.

At immoderate constituent during the showing, Rowe brutally attacked the aged existent property agent, locked him wrong the house, demanded helium "write up the declaration and motion the location implicit to him," and threatened to termination him if helium did not comply, the Grayson County Sheriff's Office told Louisville-based ABC affiliate WHAS astatine the time.

Rowe told the unfortunate that the declaration for the house, which was going for $225,000, was for his niece, according to tribunal documents obtained by Louisville-based Fox affiliate WDRB.

Next, the suspect demanded that the unfortunate manus implicit his telephone oregon helium would "beat his brains in," authorities said.

Though the unfortunate gave up his phone, helium told Rowe helium could not constitute up a declaration without his machine – which was successful his ain location crossed the street. After that, Rowe demanded the brace transverse the thoroughfare unneurotic – informing the unfortunate against getting into his car.

The suspect said that should the unfortunate effort to escape, helium would "tie a enactment astir his cervix and resistance him with his 4-wheeler." Rowe past pointed to a enactment attached to the 4-wheeler helium drove to the showing.

Rowe and the existent property cause made it into the 2nd home, wherever the unfortunate began typing connected his computer. While the unfortunate typed, the suspect pulled retired a pocketknife and said helium was going to termination the unfortunate erstwhile the declaration had been completed.

Finally, the existent property cause finished the declaration and handed it to the defendant, who sat down to work the papers astatine the room table. The unfortunate took this accidental to basal up and marque his mode toward a foyer to the room and past the beforehand door.

Law enforcement said the existent property cause earnestly feared for his beingness – believing that if helium stayed successful the location immoderate longer, helium would person been killed. Upon leaving the house, the unfortunate raced to his car and drove straight to the sheriff's office, covered successful humor and bruises.

The defendant, for his part, was located by household aboriginal that aforesaid evening and yet turned himself in. Rowe mostly agreed with the series of events described by the existent property agent, authorities said.

Now, he's persona non grata successful the jurisdiction wherever the onslaught occurred.

"Rowe is not to measurement ft successful Grayson County and person nary interaction oregon connection with the unfortunate successful this lawsuit unless it is ordered by the court," Grayson County Sheriff Norman Chaffins said.