Kelsey Grammer Shares His Sister Karen’s Final Moments Before Being Fatally Stabbed 42 Times

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Kelsey Grammer is still processing his sister Karen Grammer’s gruesome death 50 years later.

On July 8, 1975, the Frasier star, then 20 years old, answered a knock at the door only to be told the devastating news that his 18-year-old sister had been raped and fatally stabbed a week prior in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  

“For a long time, the grief was so dominant that I couldn’t access happiness,” Kelsey told People in an interview published May 2, ahead of the release of his book Karen: A Brother Remembers. “The book helped me get to a new place with that.”

And in the book, which comes out May 6, the 70-year-old delved into his sister’s final moments after spree killer Freddie Glenn—who is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of Karen and two others—and two of his accomplices took turns raping the college student before taking her to an alley and stabbing her 42 times to the point of near decapitation. (Michael Corbett, also sentenced to life in prison for the three murders, died in 2019.)