Killer of Kelsey Grammer's sister denied parole

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The 59-year-old Frasier star testified against 57-year-old Freddie Glenn who kidnapped and murdered his sister, Karen Elisa Grammer, in 1975

Published: 12:44 EST, 30 July 2014 | Updated: 13:51 EST, 30 July 2014

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Kelsey Grammer forgave the man who raped and murdered his sister but said that he should not be released, during an emotional testimony at the killer's parole hearing on Tuesday.

The 59-year-old Frasier star testified against 57-year-old Freddie Glenn who kidnapped and murdered his 18-year-old sister, Karen Elisa Grammer, in 1975 when she was leaving her job at a Red Lobster in Colorado Springs.

'I accept that you live with remorse, but I live with tragedy every day,' the Cheers star said via satellite link at a Colorado parole hearing.

'I accept your apology. I forgive you. However, I cannot give your release my endorsement.'

Scroll down for audio of Kelsey Grammer's testimony

Not supporting him: Kelsey Grammer testified against his sister Karen's killer via satellite on Tuesday; here the actor is pictured in June promoting Transformers: Age Of Extinction

The killer: Freddie Glenn was 18 when he took Karen Grammer's life in Colorado

The actor said that to bless the idea of Glenn’s parole 'would be a betrayal of my sister’s life'.

A prison spokeswoman said on Wednesday that Glenn's parole request has been denied.

Glenn and accomplice Michael Corbett snatched Miss Grammer on July 1, 1975, while she was outside the Red Lobster restaurant, waiting for her boyfriend to finish work.

The pair had tried and failed to rob the restaurant and reportedly thought that the 18-year-old, who was sitting in her car, could identify them.

She was repeatedly raped over four hours, according to KKTV, before telling her she would be let go. Glenn then slit the teenager's throat and left her on the ground.

Glenn was convicted of killing Miss Grammer and given the death penalty. The Supreme Court later overturned that decision and allowed him to seek parole after 30 years.

He also was convicted of killing two men in separate slayings.

The Denver Post reported Glenn was tearful at times as he apologized during Tuesday's parole hearing.

The murderer was 18 years old when he murdered Miss Grammer. He told the court that he believes he deserves a second chance.

He added that he has a fiancée and a $200,000 trust fund that could help stabilize his life after he is released from prison.

Glenn is locked up at Colorado’s Buena Vista Correctional Facility.

'I want to believe you have actually changed your life … things you say, I accept a lot of it,' Kelsey Grammar said.

A life cut short: Karen was a teenager when she was kidnapped, raped and murdered after leaving her job at a Red Lobster in Colorado in 1975

He then asked: 'If someone did to your sister what you did to mine, what would you think should be done to him?'

Glenn answered: 'I would be hurt, and I would be angry. I would like to think one day I would forgive.'

The last time Mr Grammer blocked Glenn's parole was in 2009.

At that hearing, Chuck Heim, who investigated the murder described Miss Grammer's murder as 'vicious'.

According to KKTV, he said: 'She crawled up on a back porch, where there was a light, but the homeowners were out.

You could see bloody hand prints and finger prints where she tried to reach the doorbell for help and she died there.'

Mr Grammer called the killer a 'butcher' and a 'monster' during that hearing.

'When we heard this man might be paroled, the suffering began anew,' he said.

'I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not.

'Can you be certain he will not slaughter another innocent life and destroy another family?'

Last Thursday, the actor welcomed his sixth child, a son named Kelsey Gabriel Elias, with wife Kayte, a former flight attendant.

The couple already has a daughter Faith, aged two.

Grammer had two children with his ex-wife, star of Housewives of Beverly Hills, Camille, whom he was married to from 1997 to 2011.

Those children are 12-year-old Mason and Jude, aged nine.

The Cheers star also has a 30-year-old daughter Spencer (an actress who appeared on soap opera As The World Turns) and a 22-year-old Greer Grammer (who has starred on MTV's Awkward) from other relationships.