KELSEY Grammer has revealed his sister’s heartbreaking final moments as she begged for help after being raped and then stabbed 42 times.
Karen, 18, was brutally murdered on July 1, 1975 by a man on a killing spree in the Colorado Springs area.
In his new memoir – Karen: A Brother Remembers – Grammer shares his sister’s tragic final moments.
The 70-year-old actor recalled the final conversation he had with his beloved sister when she told him she planned to come home after the Fourth of July.
Unbeknown to Grammer this would be the last time he would hear her voice – as she was murdered just hours later.
Grammer later learned that Karen had gone to the Red Lobster where she worked that evening to wait for a friend finishing their shift.
There she was reportedly met by Freddie Glenn and two accomplices who had been planning to rob the restaurant.
The men forced her into Glenn’s car before driving her to an apartment where she was brutally raped.
Karen was later taken to a secluded alley where Glenn stabbed her 42 times – nearly severing her head.
Grammer shared an excerpt of the memoir with People: “In my imaginings, the man who found Karen at his doorstep was a ‘good Samaritan’ of sorts
“I stand corrected and disappointed that that man did not attempt to help her but simply called the police after leaving her body as it lay…eyes vacant, staring at the sky, her legs still on the steps, her head on the ground and a clenched fist above her head with a single finger pointing — somewhere or nowhere — just pointing.”
He continued: “She had fallen backward from the trailer door after knocking for help.
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“It was her last hope and disappointment after crawling 400 feet from the place where she had been stabbed.”
“Bloody fingerprints mark the trail of her final moments at exactly 3’6” along the office and walls of the trailer park.
“She had been on her knees, crawling her way. Seeking help with her last ounce of life.
“The coroner noted that through a gaping wound in her neck, he could see all the way into Karen’s lung.
“I had been right in saying he almost decapitated her.
“Freddie Glenn punched holes in my sister’s body with unimaginable brutality. There were defensive wounds on her hands.
“What I had hoped were a final, few moments of kindness from some stranger, were nothing of the sort.”
Glenn was found guilty of murdering Karen, along with several others in the area, and is now serving a life sentence behind bars.
Karen’s death came shortly after she relocated to Colorado Springs to join her boyfriend following a semester in Georgia.
Grammer has previously said that he has forgiven Glenn but he revealed that he still struggles with this.
He told People: “It’s hard to forgive a person who consciously decided they wanted to murder somebody you love.
“This wasn’t just some temperance issue with him. It was deliberate. I can give you forgiveness, but you’re not going to get out of paying for it.”
Grammer said the memoir has helped him deal with his grief.
He said: “For a long time, the grief was so dominant that I couldn’t access happiness.
“The book helped me get to a new place with that.“
The heart wrenching memoir – Karen: A Brother Remembers – will be released on May 6.
Grammer’s life has been filled with tragedies.
In 1968, his father was shot and killed by a taxi driver during racial unrest.
And in 1980, his half-brothers Billy and Stephen were killed in what’s thought to have been a shark attack while scuba diving in the Virgin Islands.
