Editing Kelsey Grammer (section)

===Murder of Karen Grammer===

On July 1, 1975, Grammer's younger sister, 18-year-old Karen Grammer, was raped and murdered by [[spree killer]], [[Freddie Glenn]], and two other men. Grammer identified his sister's body and informed their mother shortly after. According to Grammer, his bouts of alcoholism and drug abuse were driven, in part, by guilt and depression over his sister's death, as the pair had been close in childhood.<ref name="Vanity Fair">{{cite web|url = https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/kelsey-grammer-sister-death-finding-neverland|work = [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date = May 2015|title = Out to Lunch with Kelsey Grammer|first = John|last = Heilpern|access-date = April 24, 2015|archive-date = April 21, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150421001356/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/kelsey-grammer-sister-death-finding-neverland|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a 2012 interview with [[Oprah Winfrey]], Grammer said he would be willing to forgive the perpetrators if they would take responsibility for the crime, though they all claimed innocence. In the same interview, Grammer expressed his loss of faith for several years after Karen's death.<ref>{{cite episode | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT6Sf4Ek4b8 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/LT6Sf4Ek4b8| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live| title=Kelsey Grammer | series=Oprah's Next Chapter | network=[[Oprah Winfrey Network]] | airdate=August 26, 2012 | author-link1=Oprah Winfrey | first1=Oprah | last1=Winfrey | season=2 | series-link=Oprah's Next Chapter | number=3}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He subsequently forgave Glenn in a 2014 parole hearing after being convinced of Glenn's contrition, but refused to support his release, saying that it would "be a betrayal of my sister's life".<ref name="Vanity Fair"/> He named his daughter [[Spencer Grammer|Spencer Karen Grammer]] in part for his sister.<ref name=":2" />

Karen Grammer's murder and the investigation by the [[Colorado Springs Police Department]] was the subject of the episode "Animal Nature" of the [[Investigation Discovery]] series ''[[Homicide Hunter]]''.<ref>{{cite episode | title=Animal Nature |series=Homicide Hunter |series-link=Homicide Hunter|network=[[Investigation Discovery]]|season=9|number=18|airdate=January 15, 2020}}</ref>

Grammer's 2025 book ''Karen: A Brother Remembers'' is about his sister's life and murder, and its effect on his life.<ref name="People May 2025">{{cite news|url = https://people.com/kelsey-grammer-wanted-to-breathe-life-sister-karen-with-new-book-exclusive-11727404|work = [[People (magazine)|People]]|date = May 2, 2025|title = Kelsey Grammer Hopes to 'Breathe Life' Into His Late Sister Karen with His Emotional New Book (Exclusive)|first = Brianne|last = Tracy|access-date = May 4, 2025}}</ref>