Kelsey Grammer is opening up about his sister’s homicide like by no means earlier than.
In his new memoir “Karen: A Brother Remembers,” out Might 6, the “Frasier” star, 70, recollects how on July 8, 1975, police informed him his 18-year-old sister had been discovered raped and stabbed to loss of life.
“For a long time, the grief was so dominant that I couldn’t access happiness,” Grammer informed Folks in a narrative revealed Friday. “The book helped me get to a new place with that.”
He added, “I wanted to breathe life into her and welcome her into the world. We were Kelsey and Karen, brother and sister.”
In his guide, the “Cheers” actor particulars how, simply hours after he spoke on the cellphone with Karen, she went to work at Crimson Lobster, which her assassin, Freddie Glenn, and two different males had deliberate to rob.
The person held her at gunpoint and informed her to come back with them. Within the police report, Karen mentioned, “For what,” which was a sassy reply that spoke to her character, Grammer recalled.
The boys took her to an condominium, raped her, then drove her to an alley, the place Glenn stabbed her 42 instances and almost decapitated her, as she tried to crawl for assist in her final moments.
Grammer informed Folks that he was torn whether or not to incorporate the “graphic, impersonal review” of Karen’s final moments from the police report within the guide.
He mentioned the main points have been “not pleasant” however “there is something beneficial in knowing [the truth]. It is ammunition to keep Freddie Glenn in jail.”
Glenn was convicted of Karen’s homicide and a number of other different murders within the Colorado Springs space. He’s at the moment serving a life sentence in jail.
“His protestations these days are like, ‘Well, I don’t remember raping her,’” Grammer mentioned. “Bulls—t.”
Grammer added, “You don’t want to eat yourself to pieces because you can’t forgive somebody. But it’s hard to forgive a person who consciously decided they wanted to murder somebody you love. This wasn’t just some temperance issue with him. It was deliberate. I can give you forgiveness, but you’re not going to get out of paying for it.”
In an excerpt from his guide proven in Folks, Grammer wrote about Karen’s final moments. She had crawled “400 feet” from the place the place she had been stabbed and “he almost decapitated her.”
“Bloody fingerprints mark the trail of her final moments…She had been on her knees, crawling her way. Seeking help with her last ounce of life….What I had hoped were a final, few moments of kindness from some stranger, were nothing of the sort.”
Grammer, whose father was additionally murdered seven years earlier than his sister, mentioned that he struggled with alcohol and substance abuse after Karen’s loss of life.
Between 1988 and 1996, he was charged with drunk driving and cocaine possession a number of instances.
“I always had something in the back of my head saying, ‘Okay. That’s enough now. Cut it out. You know why you’re doing this,’” he informed the outlet.
“But there was the other part of me that wanted to surrender to it and go, ‘Let it mess you up a little bit. Let it hurt.’”
