Actor plans to speak for murdered sister at parole hearing

Kelsey Grammer is expected to be among the people attending a parole board hearing in Limon on Monday for the man serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of the actor’s sister in Colorado Springs.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections confirmed that Grammer plans to attend the hearing at the Limon Correctional Facility for Freddy Glenn, who was convicted in the rape and slaying of Karen Grammer.

On July 1, 1975, Karen Grammer was an 18-year-old waitress working at a Red Lobster on South Academy Boulevard when Glenn and Michael Corbett tried to rob the restaurant.

Investigators said the pair kidnapped Grammer, fearing that she could identify them. When her body was discovered, she had been raped repeatedly and stabbed in the throat, back and hand.

Kelsey Grammer identified his sister’s body after police had been unable to identify her for about a week.

Glenn was the only one convicted in her murder, one of a series of five murders over three months that rattled the Colorado Springs area.

On June 19, 1975, Corbett and Glenn took Daniel Van Loan, a 29-year-old cook at the Four Seasons Hotel, to a remote area where Corbett shot him in the head.

On June 27, 1975, the pair met Winfred Profitt, a 19-year-old Fort Carson soldier, to buy marijuana. Instead, they killed him with bayonets.

Glenn was not involved in two subsequent murders.

On July 25, 1975, Corbett shot and killed his friend Winslow Douglas Watson after Watson had stolen a loaf of bread.

On Aug. 30, 1975, Ricky Lewis was shot in the back during a dice game. Authorities said Corbett was a suspect in the homicide, but he was never charged.

Kelsey Grammer had planned to attend the parole hearing last year, but Glenn chose not to seek parole and the hearing was not held.

In an interview in an Aug. 26, 2007, edition of Parade magazine, Grammer said of Glenn, “I am angry about him, I never had the opportunity to speak for my sister before. I will now.”