United Kingdom, May 5 -- Kelsey Grammer visited the site of his sister's brutal murder for the first time while doing research for his book.

The 70-year-old actor's younger sister Karen was abducted, raped and murdered in 1975 and he healed his grief by writing a new memoir about her called 'Karen: A Brother Remembers' - and he's now revealed he went to the site of her abduction in Colorado and to the place where she was killed.

He told The Times newspaper: "[I went there] to be with her. And maybe I didn't fully know that at the time.

"But I discovered in the writing and in the journey of this book the idea that I had to be there and do what I wasn't able to do before, which was to hold her as she died."

Kelsey previously admitted wr...