Kelsey Grammer reveals harrowing truth of teenage sisters murder: She crawled to a neighbor for help, only to be ignored

The first time “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer went to the scene of a crime he was only 20 years old — and it wasn’t for a television show.In July 1975, Grammer’s “funny, free-spirited” 18-year-old sister Karen was brutally raped and murdered in Colorado Springs, Colo.Detectives came to the Grammer family home in Pompano Beach, Fla., to say they had a Jane Doe they thought might be Karen, who had moved to Colorado a few months earlier after graduating from high school.She had been kidnapped on July 1, 1976, by several men who had planned to rob the Red Lobster restaurant where she worked.Instead they abducted her, raped her, stabbed her 42 times, nearly decapitated her and left her to die an agonizing death.The next day Grammer flew to Colorado Springs to identify his sister’s battered body.

She was his only sibling and the two had been very close, growing up with a single mother, their grandparents and an absent father.Karen’s murder, the star writes in the new memoir, “Karen: A Brother Remembers,” has haunted him for the past 50 years, coloring many aspects of his life and causing him to drown his grief in cocaine and alcohol for years.“The murder killed a corner of my heart,” Grammer, 73, writes, and mentions several times in the memoir that his sister was “the love of his life.”In the book, Grammer describes his sister as “an Oreo cookie dipped in an ice cold Coca-Cola.“She was a poem, a light, fun, innocent, and wise.”Freddie Lee Glenn, now 68, and his accomplice, the late Michael Corbett, were responsible for Karen’s death and four other killings in Colorado Spring in 1975.Glenn, who is serving a life sentence, has come up for parole several times.Although Grammer said in 2014 at another Glenn parole hearing that he had forgiven the killer, he also expressed that he never wanted him released from prison.“I accept that you live with remorse every day of your life but I live with tragedy every day of my life,” he told G...