By David Lohr
December 4, 2007
DENVER, Colo. (Crime Library) — Freddie Lee Glenn, the man who brutally raped and murdered actor Kelsey Grammer's 18-year-old sister, Karen Alicia Grammer in 1975, has waived his parole hearing for the second time in two years.
Living as inmate number 43516 at the Bent County Correctional Facility in Las Animas, Glenn, 50, first became eligible for parole in October 2006, but, according to prison administrators at the Colorado Department of Corrections, he chose to waive the hearing. He had until this month to decide whether he would pursue his second parole hearing, which, according to prison officials, he has also waived.
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| Karen Grammer |
On July 1, 1975, Glenn, then 18, along with two other men, kidnapped Karen as she walked into the Red Lobster restaurant where she worked — after they attempted to rob it. Angered over their foiled robbery, the men took Karen to an apartment that Glenn shared with one of his accomplices. The three men then spent the next four hours brutalizing and raping Karen over and over again.
The men eventually put Karen in a car and drove her down a narrow alleyway about a block away from the apartment complex. She pleaded for them to spare her life, and she probably felt the horrible nightmare was about to come to an end when they told her they were going to let her go; then they opened the car door so she could step out and walk away. Unfortunately, it was not to be.
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| Bayonet Similar to Murder Weapon |
The moment Karen stepped out of the car, Glenn stabbed her in the throat, back, and hand. He and his cohorts then sped off in the vehicle. Despite her injuries, Karen somehow managed to crawl nearly a block from the scene of the crime before finally collapsing on the porch of a vacant home. When her body was later found, the brutality of what she had endured brought tears to the eyes of the police department's most veteran investigators. Kelsey, then 20, later identified his sister's body.
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