Man convicted in death of Kelsey Grammer's sister waives parole hearing

[Brian Damage]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A man convicted in a string of murders, including the rape and slaying of actor Kelsey Grammer's sister in 1975, has waived his parole hearing.

Fifty-year-old Freddie Glenn had been scheduled to meet with state parole board members in January but waived his right to a hearing. Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti says Glenn will be eligible for a hearing again in six months.

He is being held at the Bent County Correctional Facility in Las Animas, where he is serving life sentences for three murders in 1975.

One victim was 18-year-old Karen Grammer, who was raped repeatedly and stabbed by men trying to rob a restaurant where she worked.

[Mikado]

Disgusting that they waste time and $ giving this piece of human garbage a chance to leave prison every 6 months!

[Ireneparalegal]

The fact this man has killed more than one human being astounds me that he is given a chance at parole.

LIFE IN PRISON SHOULD MEAN JUST THAT...LIFE IN PRISON!

[Brian Damage]

I agree, but Kelsey has vowed to make sure this man spends his days rotting in prison.

[JulieSomoski]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

The fact this man has killed more than one human being astounds me that he is given a chance at parole.

LIFE IN PRISON SHOULD MEAN JUST THAT...LIFE IN PRISON!

Definitely. It's no wonder we have so many crimes nowadays . . . murderers should spend their life in prison, yet they're let out anyways.

[BensonFan]

It's sad to think that for the past 32 years this man has eaten, slept, laughed, and BREATHED while an innocent person just living her life that day and going about her business, not bothering anyone, has lost out on so much. She didn't get to see her brother's success, get married and have children, or just be there as a friend to someone who really needed one. And the sad thing is, there are millions more "Karen Grammers" in the world.

It just makes me sick to my stomach.

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by BensonFan

And the sad thing is, there are millions more "Karen Grammers" in the world.

Yes, and their families lives are torn into pieces, only to have some parole board worry more about the fate of the criminals, than the lives they destroyed!

[Ireneparalegal]

Sharon Tate's mother went to every parole hearing and did so up until she died. Now, Sharon's sister does the honor of doing what her mother did her entire life after the murder of Sharon. They have vowed to fight until every one of the members of the Manson family who are behind bars for the Tate-La Bianca murders dies in prison. As they believe, once you are sentenced to life, life is what you shall get. Originally the Manson members had been sentenced to death, but that was overruled in 1971 I believe, therefore every single person on death row had their ruling overturned and reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. SICK SICK SICK.

[Corolla]

Originally Posted by Brian Damage

I agree, but Kelsey has vowed to make sure this man spends his days rotting in prison.

Exactly where he should be!

[Janice]

I've read time and time again, how the loss of his sister completely devastated Kelsey. He had other losses, with his father and half-brothers; however, they lived in the Virgin Islands, and while tragic, he didn't know them well.

Kelsey was extremely close to his sister, Karen. He's stated that he could barely think straight for the first year after she died, and that her brutal death set him on a downward spiral with drugs and alcohol. The poor girl, leaving work at a Red Lobster, and runs into pure evil.

I am so happy that Kelsey's life is on track, with a great marriage, kids, a new show. I love the guy.

[energy]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

The fact this man has killed more than one human being astounds me that he is given a chance at parole.

LIFE IN PRISON SHOULD MEAN JUST THAT...LIFE IN PRISON!

Agreed!

It's absolutely ridiculous that when someone gets 'life in prison' that we have to figure out exactly how long that is. If it doesn't mean life, don't use the word!

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by energy

Agreed!

It's absolutely ridiculous that when someone gets 'life in prison' that we have to figure out exactly how long that is. If it doesn't mean life, don't use the word!

Here in Canada "life" is LITTERALLY 25 years!!! (minus 1/2 for "good behavior"!!!!!!!)
You can kill a person here, and, if you're 18,and behave in prison, you can be out in 12 years, so, that means you'd be out at 30!!!!!!! That is NOT LIFE!!!! (If id been a murderer at 18, id have been free for 16 years now!!!)

[Janice]

The Daily Mail

Frasier to tell of suffering when he faces sister's killer in court


New life: Kelsey Grammer is happy with third wife Camille


Kelsey Grammer is to confront the man who raped and murdered his sister in an attempt to prevent the killer's release from prison.

The star of TV's Frasier will come face to face with Freddie Glenn at a parole hearing in January.

Grammer will tell the parole board of the anguish he has suffered since his sister Karen was killed in 1975.

The 18-year-old student was abducted, raped and her throat was slashed.

Grammer, 20 at the time, had to identify the body.

The killing plunged Grammer, who plays quick-witted psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane in the U.S. comedy series, into a spiral of drink and drug abuse.

The actor has only recently come to terms with the tragedy, which he has admitted changed his life.

Glenn has served 31 years of a life sentence in a Colorado jail but Grammer is determined he remain behind bars.

"Recently, I got news that the man who did this to Karen is now eligible for parole," he said.

"There is a hearing sometime later this year that I will attend. I am angry about him. "I never had the opportunity to speak for my sister before. I will now."

Grammer, 52, has rarely spoken about his sister other than to admit the devastating impact her death had on his life.

He was an aspiring actor living in New York when he had to identify her body.

Karen, a college student, had been abducted after leaving a fish restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she had gone to see her boyfriend.

Glenn, Michael Corbett and Larry Dann raped her and then Glenn slashed her throat with an army bayonet and tossed her into the street. She crawled away looking for help but bled to death.

The prosecutor in the case and lead detective appealed against Glenn's parole last year when he first became eligible for release.

Grammer said the horror of his sister's death, and other family tragedies, led to his heavy alcohol and drug abuse.

Seven years before his sister's murder, his father Frank was shot dead in 1980 his two half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident. But he says his sister's death had the biggest impact.

"It was probably the catalyst that got me into a really big problem for at least the next 15 years," he told a U.S. magazine.

"It was very hard.

"I was disconsolate. I tried to understand why people I loved died.

"Why did they have to suffer? There is no uplifting answer.

"Those losses took a big bite out of any joy.

"But they helped me understand that we've only got a limited time, so you can't yield to anxieties or even to tragedies.

"Giving up was not an option."

Grammer said comedy helped mask his sadness but he says he became 'addicted to danger' even as he became well-known with the success of the bar-room comedy Cheers and then Frasier, which ran from 1993 to 2004.

"I'm an addictive personality," he said.

"I was addicted to danger and dangerous girls.

"I'm attracted to threshold experiences - to chaos, insanity, mayhem so I was drawn to women who were dramatic, emotional and unpredictable, with great sexual energy.

"While I was dealing with those desires, I was also trying to reconcile how I was actually living my life with how I thought my life should be lived - the traditional idea of a normal existence with a wife, a family."

Those 'dangerous women' included a stripper, an ice skater and model Tammi Baliszewski.

His first two marriages ended in divorce and, in 1988, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for drinkdriving and cocaine possession.

He was arrested again for cocaine possession in August 1990 and sentenced to probation and community service.

Grammer told the magazine Parade magazine he has been sober since 1996 and is happily married to third wife, former Playboy model Camille Donatacchi.

They have a two-year-old son Jude, and a daughter, Mason, five.


Kelsey Grammer dancing with his sister Karen at Christmas in 1974 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by Janice

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Frasier to tell of suffering when he faces sister's killer in court


New life: Kelsey Grammer is happy with third wife Camille


Kelsey Grammer is to confront the man who raped and murdered his sister in an attempt to prevent the killer's release from prison.

The star of TV's Frasier will come face to face with Freddie Glenn at a parole hearing in January.

Grammer will tell the parole board of the anguish he has suffered since his sister Karen was killed in 1975.

The 18-year-old student was abducted, raped and her throat was slashed.

Grammer, 20 at the time, had to identify the body.

The killing plunged Grammer, who plays quick-witted psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane in the U.S. comedy series, into a spiral of drink and drug abuse.

The actor has only recently come to terms with the tragedy, which he has admitted changed his life.

Glenn has served 31 years of a life sentence in a Colorado jail but Grammer is determined he remain behind bars.

"Recently, I got news that the man who did this to Karen is now eligible for parole," he said.

"There is a hearing sometime later this year that I will attend. I am angry about him. "I never had the opportunity to speak for my sister before. I will now."

Grammer, 52, has rarely spoken about his sister other than to admit the devastating impact her death had on his life.

He was an aspiring actor living in New York when he had to identify her body.

Karen, a college student, had been abducted after leaving a fish restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she had gone to see her boyfriend.

Glenn, Michael Corbett and Larry Dann raped her and then Glenn slashed her throat with an army bayonet and tossed her into the street. She crawled away looking for help but bled to death.

The prosecutor in the case and lead detective appealed against Glenn's parole last year when he first became eligible for release.

Grammer said the horror of his sister's death, and other family tragedies, led to his heavy alcohol and drug abuse.

Seven years before his sister's murder, his father Frank was shot dead in 1980 his two half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident. But he says his sister's death had the biggest impact.

"It was probably the catalyst that got me into a really big problem for at least the next 15 years," he told a U.S. magazine.

"It was very hard.

"I was disconsolate. I tried to understand why people I loved died.

"Why did they have to suffer? There is no uplifting answer.

"Those losses took a big bite out of any joy.

"But they helped me understand that we've only got a limited time, so you can't yield to anxieties or even to tragedies.

"Giving up was not an option."

Grammer said comedy helped mask his sadness but he says he became 'addicted to danger' even as he became well-known with the success of the bar-room comedy Cheers and then Frasier, which ran from 1993 to 2004.

"I'm an addictive personality," he said.

"I was addicted to danger and dangerous girls.

"I'm attracted to threshold experiences - to chaos, insanity, mayhem so I was drawn to women who were dramatic, emotional and unpredictable, with great sexual energy.

"While I was dealing with those desires, I was also trying to reconcile how I was actually living my life with how I thought my life should be lived - the traditional idea of a normal existence with a wife, a family."

Those 'dangerous women' included a stripper, an ice skater and model Tammi Baliszewski.

His first two marriages ended in divorce and, in 1988, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for drinkdriving and cocaine possession.

He was arrested again for cocaine possession in August 1990 and sentenced to probation and community service.

Grammer told the magazine Parade magazine he has been sober since 1996 and is happily married to third wife, former Playboy model Camille Donatacchi.

They have a two-year-old son Jude, and a daughter, Mason, five.

Kelsey Grammer dancing with his sister Karen at Christmas in 1974 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

That is just heartbreaking.

[Scoobiedoo30]

this is just heartbreaking