Kelsey's Emotional Plea: Keep My Sister's Killer Locked Up!
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The moral of this story: Don't mess with Kelsey Grammer.
With bad weather preventing him from appearing in person at a parole hearing today for his sister's killer, the erstwhile Frasier Crane still managed to keep the "butcher" behind bars, thanks to a heart-wrenching letter to the Colorado Parole Board.
Freddie Glenn, 52, is serving a life sentence for killing Karen Grammer back in 1975. He was up for his regular five-year review.
"Please consider, when you wrestle with the fate of this man that killed my sister, the degree of suffering he has inflicted on his victims but also on the families of his victims," the 54-year-old Emmy winner writes, adding that the murder left his family "broken."
"It has been many years since the murders and he has spent many years in jail. We, whose lives were so altered by his selfishness and brutality, have spent those years in a prison of our own."
As a man of faith, Grammer continues, he has come to forgive Glenn, but just as he can "never escape the horror of what happened to my sister, I can never accept the notion that he can pay for that nightmare with anything less than his life."
"Consider the extreme nature of his crimes—the disregard for simple humanity. This is a butcher. This is a monster," he continued, recounting the brutal rape that preceded his sister's slaying.
"We all make choices. He made his. Surely a man who has killed so many must never take a single breath as a free man."
Even in absentia Grammer proved persuasive. After being read Grammer's letter and hearing from other relatives, the board rejected Glenn's request for parole.
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