Karen Grammer’s Killer Denied Parole: Kelsey Unable to Attend

by Alyzee | July 27, 2009 at 04:06 pm

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Actor Kelsey Grammer was unable to attend the hearing of the man who raped and murdered his sister, Karen Grammer in 1975 when she was 18. Freddie Glenn, 52, is serving a life-sentence for first-degree murder according to msnbc. The actor was held up in Kentucky because of rain and could not make it to Colorado for the hearing.

She was abducted outside a Colorado Springs restaurant, raped and stabbed on July 1.

The convicted killer was denied parole on Monday morning. Robert Russel, the now retired El Paso and Teller County Colorado District Attorney who prosecuted the criminal, attended the hearing. Kelsey Grammer sent a letter to Russel, who read it aloud at the hearing.

“I am saddened that I missed this opportunity to be at the hearing,” Grammer wrote in his letter. “You know the circumstances: rain delays at Kennedy that made it impossible for me to be in Colorado Springs in time to attend.

“She had so much to live for. I loved my sister, Karen. I miss her. I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her — I could not. I have never gotten over it. I was supposed to save her,” he wrote. “I could not. It very nearly destroyed me. I knew it destroyed my Grandmother, who spoke very little after Karen’s death and died three years later. My Mother was broken by it.