Greg Sanders
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Name: Gregory Hojem Sanders
Nicknames: Greg, Greggo, Greggy, G, Brown Nose
Date of Birth: May 7, 1975
Place of Birth: San Gabriel, California
Mother's Name: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Father's Name: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Siblings: None
Education: Undergraduate degree from Stanford
Marital Status: Single
Children: None known
Complete Biography
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Parents:
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Childhood:
The only child of his Norwegian parents, Greg was something of a child prodigy.
His mother was overprotective. According to Greg, she always made sure he stayed close, refused to let him play sports in high school, and took him to the ER if he got a nosebleed.
His grandfather got him started collecting coins.
His father took him sailing when he was young.
At age 12, swiped the keys to his Papa Olaf's sports car and rode around the block twice. Almost ran over his own foot when putting it back in the driveway.
His Nana Olaf was psychic, and the family thought Greg inherited that gift.
Was an Eagle Scout.
Education:
Stanford University
Was captain of his high school chess team
Studied for his Criminalistics certification.
Love Life:
Dated Ellen Whitebridge, who turned out to be a serial killer and almost killed him (A Kiss Before Frying).
Involved with music journalist Alison Bailey (It Was A Very Good Year). Investigated her murder.
Close friendship with Morgan Brody.
Personality Quirks:
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Defining Life Moments:
At first, had a crush on Sara Sidle. He flirted with her and asked her to dinner, but ultimately, they became great friends.
Always has had a friendly relationship with Nick Stokes.
Former DNA tech in the lab. Injured in an explosion, when Catherine Willows unknowingly placed an unknown chemical under the fume hood when a hot plate was left on.
Attended his first autopsy after human bones were found in a drain.
Became a CSI in 2005.
Good friends with Sofia Curtis. She mentored him when he first worked in the field, and supported him after his beating and during the civil trial.
Stopped a gang of teen thugs from beating up a tourist. Was forced to kill one of them, then the gang returned and beat him up. After the death of the teen was ruled excusable, the city agreed to pay the teen's family $2.5 million. When the teen's brother was involved in a murder scene months later, the teen's mother confronted Greg. The CSI retaliated, telling her what her sons did wasn't on him--it was on them and her. Ultimately, Greg requested the D.A. go easy on the other son.
Wrote a book about the history of the mob in Vegas. He was leaving for L.A. to meet with publishers when his friend and fellow CSI Warrick Brown was killed.
Spoke to counselor Patricia Alwick when Conrad Ecklie brought her in to speak with the team after Warrick's death. Hodges came by her office and saw Greg talking to her and Alwick giving Greg some tissues (Art Imitates Life).
Flirted with Riley when they processed the home of a couple who'd been tortured and murdered.
After Grissom left, Nick offered to share Grissom's office with Greg and Riley Adams.
When a young boy was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood, Greg spoke to the boy's father when he wouldn't let David Phillips take him. Greg told him his son was in a better place, and the man gave his son to David. Later, Greg visited the boy's father when the killer was shot and killed by another gang member. The man invited Greg inside his house for a cup of coffee.
Dated Ellen Whitebridge until he learned she was behind a series of murders. When Greg found her at the bus station, she was arrested when she tried to leave town.
Smitten with Morgan Brody when she arrived in Vegas. He felt responsible when she was taken hostage in a helicopter, and confronted the daughter of the hijacker when he learned she set them up to die. Ultimately, Greg and the police rescued Morgan.
Had a brief relationship with music journalist Alison Bailey. He and the team later investigated her murder. Ultimately, Greg learned Alison was killed because she bought a rare Sinatra record to give him, but the killer wanted her to himself.
He and the team searched for Morgan when she was kidnapped by the Dante's Inferno killer. She was hurt, but rescued and recovered. Later, while investigating an alleged kidnapping, Greg comforted Morgan as she cried.
Investigated for planting evidence when he was a CSI level one. Finn cleared Greg, and she apologized for having to investigate him. He accepted her apology.
Defining Cases:
At first, was the lab's DNA tech. He worked with Nick to find what drug knocked out a "trick roll" and discovered what drug was used.
Analyzed the DNA that confirmed who killed new CSI Holly Gribbs.
Cleared Nick in the murder of Kristy Hopkins.
Analyzed DNA to help solve the disappearance of a Vegas socialite (Table Stakes).
When Greg didn't have results for Grissom on the disappearance of an infant who was later found dead, Grissom cleared his counter and told him to analyze the DNA from the case (Gentle, Gentle).
Discovered the killer of a deaf man had a unique feature in his blood that caused it to glow.
Even though Grissom was taken off the case of the "strip strangler," Greg and the team still worked the case.
Worked with Grissom when he, Sara and Warrick investigated the death of a construction worker who'd fallen from the site where he was working. Grissom proved the man didn't commit suicide and was murdered.
Looked up information on the wife of a man found dead in an elevator (Organ Grinder).
Analyzed the DNA found at the murder of a man killed by serial killer Paul Millander.
First worked at a crime scene in 2002, when the team investigated a bus crash (Chasing The Bus).
When Grissom was trying to find the killer of a married couple in their home, he asked Greg to help by doing an experiment with his feet. One foot was swabbed with tap water, the other with a mildew found at the scene. Greg, like the suspect, is of Scandinavian descent, so he had a reaction similar to the killer's (Let The Seller Beware).
Processed DNA from multiple suspects when a cab driver was brutally beaten by a mob after allegedly running over a teen. Grissom and Sara proved the teen was dead before the cab driver hit him. After the cab driver's death, Greg showed Grissom the proof of who beat the man, and Captain Jim Brass arrested the ringleader of the mob.
When he was the DNA tech, he was always eager to work in the field. When Grissom worked on the case of a man murdered for his coin collection, Greg went to the coin shop the killer owned and helped solve the case (Precious Metal).
When Catherine and Grissom investigated the stabbing death of a man in a movie theater, Greg and fingerprint tech Jacqui Franco made a bet on who could get their evidence processed fastest. Greg won, and Jacqui had to wear his "swami" hat for the rest of the shift.
A comic collapsed and died on stage, and a teen later collapsed and died in a convenience store. The team discovered they'd been poisoned. Greg discovered a high-powered migraine medication was inserted in the water bottles. He also found the killer drank the most expensive coffee in the world, Kopi Luwak.
Was working on the case of a woman found murdered at a high school football field when there was an explosion in the lab. Greg was injured but recovered.
When Grissom and the team needed to find a soda bottle used at the scene of the killing of two murder suspects, Greg walked through the neighborhood. He didn't find a soda bottle, but he did find a discarded police uniform shirt (All For Our Country).
Catherine brought Greg in to help find a woman who had gone missing after a photo shoot. They, Nick and Sara found the woman's body in the desert (After The Show).
In one of his first cases, he went to the wrong gate in a high-end neighborhood (Early Rollout).
Analyzed boxer shorts that belonged to a man found in a seedy part of town from a case Catherine and Sara were investigating. Later, he found DNA of the man who killed a counselor belonged to the landlord of a woman the counselor helped (Getting Off).
When Catherine, Nick and Sara investigated the death of a female prison inmate, Greg discovered the prison guard was the father of the inmate's unborn fetus.
When a teen girl was killed in a house fire, Nick asked Greg to find a match between matchbooks found at a pyromaniac neighbor's house and a matchbook found at the scene (Bad Words).
Greg participated with the CSIs in a law enforcement desert relay, and a cop was found dead. Greg helped Super Dave process the body. Later, when the dead cop's ATM card was used, Greg and Nick analyzed the security footage.
Worked with Grissom, Sara and Nick when a roller coaster derailed and left five people dead.
Was given another chance to be in the field after he almost contaminated potential evidence (Viva Las Vegas).
As the team processed the murder of a transgendered woman, Greg discovered information on the suspect, a mysterious doctor. Grissom and the team learned the "doctor" didn't have a medical license, and was treating transgendered patients who were denied surgery.
As the team investigated a fingerprint Grissom discovered in court on a matchbook that had already been processed, Greg and Sara investigated a man who was shot to death. They learned the man had been modifying a gun to make it automatic. When they and Detective Vartann visited the victim's home, they played a message saying a deal was going down. When they arrived, ATF showed up and told them they were investigating the dead man. Sara informed them their target accidentally shot himself with the modified gun and bled out. Later, Ecklie split up Grissom's team. Greg, Sara and Sofia Curtis stayed on Grissom's team while Catherine was promoted to Swing Shift supervisor and Nick and Warrick were assigned to her.
Greg was with Grissom, Sofia Curtis and Captain Brass on a scene when Greg discovered the body of a child in a storage container. As Grissom and Greg examined it, the killer returned to the scene and shot the other victim's brother. Warrick offered Greg support. Later, Greg, Sara and Brass returned to the young boy's house and found his two brothers, who were held by their cousin (No Humans Involved).
Became a CSI after solving the murder of a Sherlock Holmes actor (Who Shot Sherlock).
Processed a woman who'd suffered horrible burns. Greg was emotional after seeing her, and later asked Sofia how to get the image of her fighting for her life out of his head (Spark Of Life).
While he and Sara were investigating the home of a bodybuilder thought to have been murdered, Doc Robbins found evidence of toxic mold. Greg and Sara were pulled out of the house and showered. They later talked about it and Greg said he didn't see anything (4x4).
As he and Sara investigated the death of two college students in a college dorm, a toilet in the bathroom exploded. Greg discovered dry ice had been flushed down the toilet after it was used to kill the two students.
He and the team rescued Nick after he'd been buried alive. The team was brought back together after his rescue.
He and Sara worked with Sofia Curtis, now a detective, to solve the murder of two people found dead in a car trunk.
Greg, Sara and Warrick joined Nick in a nearby small town to investigate the disappearance of a family.
When Captain Brass and Sofia were in a gunfight that left gang members and a rookie cop dead, Greg was assigned to find all the bullet casings.
To help solve the murder of an overly obese man, Greg bought several packages of hot dogs to find out what brand the victim ate. He was disappointed when Grissom told him the lab wouldn't reimburse him for all the hot dogs he'd bought.
When a waiter was killed at a party given by former showgirl Lois O'Neal, Greg spoke to Ms. O'Neal and received a signed copy of her book. The team learned O'Neal killed the waiter when he tried to steal from her after she arranged for him to kill her. When O'Neal was found dead, it was learned she was dying of cancer.
Investigated the murder of a psychic. Greg told Grissom that his grandmother, Nana Olaf, was psychic and his family thought Greg inherited it (Spellbound).
After processing the scene of a defense attorney killed at her son's wedding, Greg, Sara and Nick were having breakfast at a diner when Nick's truck with all the evidence was stolen. As IA investigated, they recalled their experiences gathering evidence at the wedding.
When a man was supposedly shot after his wife was murdered and everyone at his office was shot and killed, Greg discovered the man's supposed twin brother took a cab from the first murder. Later, the husband took a woman hostage in a casino and wanted to speak with his brother. Grissom discovered the man's brother was killed several months before and the husband was the killer. Brass was shot and police shot and killed the husband. Later, Greg stayed at the hospital when Brass' estranged daughter came by and demanded to be let in to his home. When Grissom, who had Brass' power of attorney refused, Ellie angrily left. Sometime later, Brass woke up and saw Ellie with Grissom, but she left before he could talk to her. Later, Brass thanked Grissom for not "pulling the plug," and Greg and the team smiled as Grissom told Brass his "fan club" was there.
Searched the home of rocker Izzy Delancey when he was murdered. Greg discovered a safe with a contract to a casino to use his music in a show, but Delancey refused. When Grissom and Detective Curtis investigated, they found a perfect miniature model of the crime scene. Delancey was the first victim of the serial killer known as the Miniature Killer.
Stopped a gang from beating a tourist, and one member came after him, causing Greg to hit the teen. The gang returned and beat him. (Fannysmackin'). Sued for wrongful death by the gang member's family, but he later confronted the boy's mother when her other son was arrested (Big Shots).
When a city councilman was found dead, Catherine and CSI Mike Keppler decided to try "reverse forensics" to try to flush out the killer. Greg, Sara and Sofia investigated the murder of a drug addicted lawyer, and realized she knew the councilman. When Catherine ordered the team to back off, Nick, Warrick, Greg and Sara met and decided to work together because they couldn't trust Catherine or Keppler. Later, after an arrest was made, Catherine and Keppler met with the team and told them about the operation. Greg wondered if they thought they wouldn't figure it out, since it's what they do. Eventually, tensions between Catherine, Keppler and the others thawed.
When the team investigated the murder of a woman tied to group of UFO believers, the suspect bit Greg's hand when he tried to get a DNA sample. He got a tetanus shot, but was otherwise okay.
When Sara was abducted by the Miniature Killer, Greg and the team searched the desert to find her. Nick and Sofia found her injured, but she recovered. She then transferred to the Swing Shift.
As Sara recovered and Ecklie tried to find Grissom to ask about their relationship, Greg, Nick and Grissom found a body without a head on the highway. Greg asked Nick if Grissom said anything about Sara, and Nick shook his head no. Nick asked Greg if he knew about Grissom's relationship with Sara, and he said yes. Later, they learned the dead teen had been go-kart racing. Greg and Nick discovered the teen raced a competitor at a local track on the road, and rubber from a big-rig truck flew off and decapitated him. After the case was closed, Sara joined Greg, Nick and the rest of the team as they raced go-karts at the track.
Greg loves Vegas history, and offered to help Sara and CSI Ronnie Lake investigate a body found in the rubble of one of Sam Braun's old casinos. This led to him talking with Catherine's mother, Lily Flynn, and they went to dinner to talk about mob history in Vegas for a book Greg was writing (The Case Of The Cross-Dressing Carp).
He and Nick investigated the murder of a woman found in an illegal dumping ground for dead dogs. The woman was involved in dogfighting.
Greg had a cold when he and the team investigated the death of a witness in a trial against a well-known gang leader.
As Nick and Grissom investigated the unusual death of a man in police custody, Greg and Nick found the body of a space alien fanatic. They discovered she had green blood. They later found a man who'd sold them illegal drugs with the same green blood. Ultimately, they learned their cases were connected to a case Catherine was investigating (The Theory Of Everything).
He and the team investigated when Warrick was accused of killing mobster Lou Gedda. Warrick was cleared, but later murdered. Greg had gone to Los Angeles to meet with publishers for his book, but he returned and told Grissom he needed to do something. He and Sara, who returned after being away, looked through Warrick's apartment and learned Warrick had a son that he was trying to get custody of at the time of his death. Ultimately, the team proved who killed Warrick, and Greg and the team attended his funeral.
Greg investigated when the husband of Pamela Adler, the woman from Sara's case years before who was left in a vegetative state after being raped, pulled the plug on her life support. Sara learned the husband accused her rapist of attacking her again, and Greg learned that the rapist could be charged with murder. However, Sara learned the husband was lying, and she left Vegas once again.
Riley Adams joined the CSI team as a counselor was brought in to help them deal with Warrick's death. Greg spoke to the counselor, and she nudged a box of tissues to him during their conversation. Later, Greg, Riley and Detective Vartann found and saved the latest victim of a serial killer who'd been posing his victims throughout Vegas.
He and the team investigated when a young woman was found dead in a dumpster. Greg interrogated the girl's best friend, who told him no one would hurt the girl out of fear of her father, a known drug kingpin. Sometime later, Greg investigated when the best friend was found shot to death.
The team investigated when a man's death led to an underground sex club. Greg, Riley and Nick searched the home of the man and his girlfriend, and found S&M paraphernalia. They later learned the killer was the accomplice of an imprisoned serial killer.
He, Grissom and Riley investigated when a man's wife was murdered and his young daughter was left near death. They learned the husband and father was living under a new name and had reportedly killed a private detective years before. Greg and Riley examined the daughter's cell phone, and saw the last photo taken was seconds before the murder. Brass arrived to find the daughter of the private detective forcing the husband and father to dig a hole at gunpoint, revealing her father's skeletal remains. She confessed that, when her brother told her he'd found the man, she couldn't let it go. She'd meant to kill him, but his family arrived home first. When Brass told her the man's daughter would be okay, the woman was relieved. However, when Brass asked her to give up the gun, she shot the man dead. Police then shot and killed the woman.
He and the team investigated when a young contestant on a singing reality TV show was found dead. Greg and Nick investigated Le Chateau Rouge, a casino from the 1950s that closed suddenly. They also found a man who played sax at the club back in the day and had been living in the club since. The man confessed to killing the young girl, but they discovered she was accidentally killed when she fell onto the arm of a chair. The man was having an affair with the wife of the club's owner, who was murdered back in the 1950s. The woman killed her husband and confessed, but police at the time arrested another musician at the club who eventually died in prison. The woman told Grissom, "A white woman could get away with murder, but couldn't love a black man."
Became a CSI Level 3 in "19 Down".
When Grissom announced he was leaving CSI, Greg and the team worked to help him solve his last case. Greg thanked Grissom for letting him be a CSI.
When a man was found brutally beaten in a gas station restroom, Greg and the rest of the team investigated. Two friends of the man who identified themselves as FBI agents offered their help to the team. However, when one of them was murdered, Wendy Simms discovered the agents were fake. The remaining "agent" was a mental patient living in a halfway house. However, he was able to give the team information about a human trafficking suspect, and the criminal was arrested.
He and Catherine investigated when a woman was found dead and handcuffed to her bed. Her husband was in the living room, drunk. Doc Robbins determined the woman died of fluoride poisoning, as she swallowed two tubes of toothpaste. Greg and Catherine determined she committed suicide and framed her husband for murder.
He and Catherine investigated the death of a porn star. The woman was thought to have been murdered, but Greg found the gun had an unfired bullet, which made it look like she was shot twice. It proved the woman committed suicide. The crime was linked to a murders investigated by the rest of the team.
Helped Nick investigate the deaths of two men in a motel. One died of an accidental head injury, the other snuck into the crawlspace above the room to steal money the man hid. Greg discovered the man in the crawlspace built an electromagnet to secure the crawlspace door so he could open it with a garage door opener. However, when the man went to get to money, the batteries in the remote were dead, and he crawled up into the crawlspace to get it only to electrocute himself on a frayed wire. The second man tried to open the sealed door with his gun when it accidentally fired, sending him onto a table where he hit his head and died (Turn, Turn, Turn).
Comforted a grief-stricken father whose son was shot and killed in a neighborhood shootout. Later, Greg realized Riley and Langston were taken hostage when Riley called him by her name (No Way Out).
He and Catherine investigated when two men, who'd designed a new hotel lobby, suddenly died in one's backyard. The deaths were connected to Nick and Riley's case, where a skydiver had fallen and was critically injured. They learned the skydiver was hired by a rival of the two men to drop poison over them using an ultralight flying machine. After he dropped the poison, the skydiver realized he'd done something horrible and attempted suicide.
He and Riley investigated when a young woman was found near death outside her friends home. They suspected sexual assault, but they learned the woman was in a "diet club" with the two women, and her friends accidentally killed her when one of them threw a pork chop that hit her in the neck. Though wounded, the woman ran out of the house before collapsing, and was kicked under a nearby car where she bled to death.
He and the team investigated when a man was killed in a biker bar. The man was revealed to be an undercover cop, and his wife had a relationship with Brass.
He and the team investigated the murder of a man who'd found several chips that belonged to a casino that closed in the 1980s. It was Riley's last case with the team.
After Riley's sudden departure, the team investigated the death of an actress in a car crash. While at the scene, Catherine sent Greg to another scene at a seedy motel. Greg was angry that he was being taken off the high-profile case, but went to the scene. While watching a news report of the actress' death, police officer Akers complained that they were investigating the murder of a bum while everyone else was at the higher-profile scene. Greg told him the bum didn't deserve what happened to him, and Akers apologized. Later, Sara returned and Greg happily welcomed her back. Sometime later, Russian mobsters broke into the lab and stole a body. CSIs originally thought it was the actress, but Doc Robbins told them they took the body of the bum who was revealed to be the actress' father.
Tensions were high when a white police officer shot and killed a black cop. Greg interviewed a waitress and her son, who claimed to have seen what happened. Greg discovered the woman's son touched one of the bullets at the scene, and she hadn't seen what really happened at all. Later, the white officer committed suicide.
As the team investigated the murder of a popular college football coach, Greg and Sara investigated when a car was pulled out of Lake Mead. A woman was found in the car, and they processed a gun found in the car. Greg and Sara learned the dead woman was a prostitute who'd been with some of the coach's students. They also learned a pizza shop employee who was found murdered months before had tried to rescue the woman when she and the team's sponsor drove into the lake but was shot by the woman when she tried to escape.
Greg and the team investigated when a human head was found at a bowling tournament. Greg took a bowling course in college and knew about the mechanics of bowling. He and the team realized one of the bowlers had an affair with the dead man's girlfriend and he killed him, while she cut his head off to get back at the bowler. After the case was closed, Greg joined the team at the bowling alley and enjoyed a game with everyone.
Greg, Nick and Hodges "kidnapped" Henry to take him to a nearby small town barbecue restaurant for his birthday. They were run off the road and had to walk the rest of the way. When they arrived, they discovered the restaurant was closed and found the body of the cook. They spent the night there, and found the remains of the restaurant's owner the next morning (Appendicitement).
He helped Nick and Catherine when a member of the country music group Rascal Flatts was nearly electrocuted.
When police wanted to catch a pair of suspected meth dealers, Greg and Archie Johnson installed cameras in the pair's hotel room. Greg later went undercover at a rave and one of the meth dealers was arrested by Brass. The other returned to his hotel room and was ambushed by Catherine, who was collecting evidence and saw him aim a gun at Detective Vartann. Detective Vartann shot and killed the other man (The Panty Sniffer).
As Hodges and Wendy led a group of high school "Crime Cadets" through an investigation, Greg and Nick looked into what made several police officers violently ill. Greg discovered a box of donuts and pastries were laced with bacteria. While Nick spoke to the police officer whose name was on the box, Greg discovered the bacteria was the same strain that closed a daycare weeks before. Greg later spoke to a nurse at the hospital, the officer's ex-girlfriend, and she was arrested for causing a disturbance at the police station that could have been much worse.
Greg and Nick investigated when a legendary comic was found dead. Greg interviewed the man's partner, who confessed the man had personal issues but seemed to be doing better since they were preparing for a reunion show. When they learned the comic drowned, Greg and Nick discovered the ice machine in the man's room had rust on it from a leak. They'd originally looked for a red-headed showgirl, but Greg realized the hairs on the comic partner's hairpiece contained shades of red. The comic's partner confessed to Brass that he killed the man.
He and the team investigated the crimes of the serial killer known as Dr. Jekyll. When Nick and Ray found him at his father's restaurant, a police officer was killed and Nick was shot. When Dr. Jekyll came out of his hiding place to shoot Ray, Nick shot and killed him.
After a policeman's funeral was bombed, the team investigated a group of followers of Dr. Paul Huxbee. Nick, Catherine and Detective Vartann kill one of the bombers in a shootout. Later, Greg and Catherine arrive at the scene of a murdered homeless man. When Greg and Vartann search the next tent, Catherine and David Phillips discover the homeless man's body is rigged with a bomb. Catherine yells for them not to touch anything, and Greg pulled Vartann away just as another bomb explodes. Both men escaped without harm.
After a philanthropist was attacked in her home, the team investigated a serial killer who attacks people in the public eye with secrets. Greg and Catherine investigated when the killer brutally killed a mother in a car wash. Though the philanthropist survived, the killer got away (Sqweegel).
Greg helped Nick and Sara search the home of a hoarder after the body of the woman's daughter was found in her cluttered home. The investigation led to the bodies of three young men who were killed by the woman's other daughter.
Greg helped Nick when the father of a girl who'd gone missing years before was murdered. The girl had gone missing with her best friend, and they found the scene where the kidnapper killed them. However, the kidnapper was in a coma after attempting suicide in prison. The other girl's mother told Nick someone called her with a map to where her daughter was buried, but she realized it was her daughter's friend. Greg Nick, and Detective Frankie Reed found the man who'd killed the father as he attempted to flee. Nick found the second map, which the killer tried to burn. Greg found the locations on the map, and later recovered the girl's body as Nick comforted her mother.
While investigating the remains of a body found in a shredder, Greg discovered the name of the victim was the same as the man who owned an identity protection business. Greg then learned he had fraudulent charges on his own credit card (Bump And Grind).
Greg and Sara investigated when a husband and wife were found dead in their apartment. Greg saw the couple's parrot in his cage, and tried to get him to talk. The parrot, however, said nothing. They learned the wife had called 9-1-1 in the past when her husband beat her. When they returned to the scene, Sara thought it was tampered with. But she realized there were paw prints in the blood, and found the couple's pet cat nearby. While at the lab, the cat still tried to attack the bird. As Hodges processed the cat, Sara processed the parrot and found blood on his feathers. She and Greg determined the husband, who regularly showered with the parrot, was showering that morning and the bathroom door was left opened. The cat jumped in to attack the bird, and the husband was accidentally knocked unconscious and drowned in a small amount of water. The wife, who'd been chopping vegetables preparing breakfast, had a knife in her hand when she came to investigate. The bird, in a frenzied state, attacked the woman while trying to get away from the cat. The woman fell onto the knife, stabbing herself to death. The bird then sprayed blood on the walls before locking himself in his cage. However, they couldn't explain how the wife could call 9-1-1 without getting blood on the phone. Later, at the lab, Greg was cutting up slices of an apple for he and Sara to feed the parrot, when he accidentally cut his thumb. The parrot saw the blood and went to the phone and dialed 9-1-1, saying "help me." They realized the parrot had called for help after the murder.
While looking at a body of the Victims of Vegas website, Greg and Mandy thought a woman pictured on the site was dead. Nick and Hodges said she wasn't. Greg bet Nick $100 he was right, so they went to the dump site and found the woman was indeed dead.
While investigating mobile electrocutions, Greg had a fling with Ellen Whitebridge. He later learned she was the killer and she tried to kill him (A Kiss Before Frying).
Months later, Jason McCann called Nick and warned him not to go home. As Nick walked up his driveway, he activated an explosive. The bomb squad deactivated the bomb and Nick was angry but unhurt. Later, after trapping Nick, Catherine and Vartann in an empty warehouse with Huxbee's dead body, Vartann was shot as the team were trapped with a bomb. Kip, a bomb squad expert, died in the explosion, but the others escaped. Later, police confronted McCann on the highway. When the teen said he'd only talk to Nick, Greg told him not to. As he left the van, McCann shouted that his friend he was with had a bomb. As the other man showed the police he wasn't wired, McCann fired at police. They returned fire and McCann was killed.
Greg and Sara investigated the death of a video game player as they competed with their colleagues to see who could close the cycle - homicide, accident, suicide and natural in the same shift.
Months after the bombing of a policeman's funeral, the second bomber, Jason McCann, called Nick just as he was arriving home. Nick unknowingly armed an explosive as he arrived, but the bomb squad disarmed it. Later, Greg, Nick, Brass and police confronted McCann and another man as they attempted to flee a roadblock. When McCann said he'd give up only to Nick, Greg told the CSI not to. McCann distracted police by saying the other man had a bomb. McCann then shot at police, causing them to fire and kill him.
After a former cop serving time for killing his wife was murdered in prison, Greg and Nick discovered the man's former sister-in-law met with him and began to believe he was innocent. When the sister-in-law was found murdered, Greg raced to Catherine and told her the prints on the murder weapon belonged to a first degree relative of the woman--and the cop's supposed dead wife was alive. The woman, who'd had affairs with several cops including Brass and Vartann, resurfaced when an old flame contacted her. She unapologetically admitted to killing her sister as she was arrested.
As the team competed to see who would investigate a natural death to close the cycle--homicide, suicide, accident and natural--Greg and Sara investigated the death of a video game player. Greg and Brass learned the victim was in a national competition. He and Sara learned the victim had an overdose of sleeping pills in his system, and the prescription was in his girlfriend's name. The man's girlfriend spoke to Greg and Brass, and he and Sara learned she'd sent angry text to others who came onto the man. Greg printed a pizza box delivered to the dead man, and discovered the print belonged to the game competition's host, who was the ex-girlfriend of the victim's girlfriend.
He and the team stood by Ray Langston after he killed Nate Haskell. Ray confessed to Internal Affairs and left, but it's unclear whether he was fired or left by choice (In A Dark, Dark House).
As the team welcomed new supervisor D.B. Russell, Greg and Sara worked a bizarre death in Brime County, where a man was found with his chest shriveled up. As they were investigating, Greg first met Morgan Brody, Conrad Ecklie's daughter, who came to work in Vegas after the Langston/Haskell showdown.
He and the team, including Morgan for the first time, investigated the death of a family where three people confessed to the crime.
He and Morgan investigated a body dump and discovered the deceased actually drowned in a vat of chocolate.
Attended a party at the Vegas Mob Museum with D.B., Catherine and Ecklie, when former mayor Oscar Goodman was shot.
Greg, Morgan and D.B. arrived at a scene where the man came back to life. Morgan volunteered to go on the chopper to take him to the hospital, but the man woke up and took her and the pilots hostage. The team learned the man's daughter was involved in a gang, and the man had been seeking revenge on the gang. The man's daughter arrived at the police station claiming to want to help, and told the man to go to an abandoned theme park they used to go to. However, Greg, Nick and Sara analyzed surveillance footage of her arrival and realized she was setting her father and everyone on the helicopter up to die. Greg angrily confronted the daughter, who smugly told him "it's done." Greg, D.B., Ecklie, Brass and police arrived at the park as a shootout ensued. The gang members were all killed, as were the two pilots and the girl's father. Greg rushed to Morgan, and she told him he still owed her one from when she volunteered to take his place on the helicopter. Ecklie hugged his daughter and D.B. led her away as she broke down in tears.
Greg, Catherine and D.B. investigated the murder of a mogul at his elaborate birthday party. They discovered the mogul was a suspect in the abduction and murder of a child years before, when he was a teenager. Greg then helped Morgan investigate the death of a woman in a seedy hotel room. At the autopsy, Greg learned the woman ingested PCP, which made her hallucinate and jab a shard of glass from a broken mirror into herself. Later, the team learned those cases and one Nick and Sara were investigating were tied to a former cop, now in hospice with cancer. Greg discovered the cop's accomplice was at Lake Mead with another suspect thought to have gotten away with murder years ago. Cops arrived to find Detective Sam Vega trying to drown the man. Vega then forced police to shoot and kill him. Greg examined evidence from the gun of the suspect as the man was arrested in the hospital.
Investigated the death of a man found in Doc Robbins' bedroom. The case got him interested in genealogy (Genetic Disorder).
Called to the scene when D.B. and Catherine were missing after investigating the husband of Catherine's childhood friend for arms trafficking. Though shot in the escape, Catherine was later found safe and she and D.B. returned to the lab. Her friend was arrested for orchestrating the murders of three people and, presumably, killing the FBI agent who tried to help her. Catherine then left to work with the FBI.
When women reported chunks of their hair being taken in public, Greg and the team investigated. Two victims were later murdered. They learned the killer wanted them to look like a certain woman. After Morgan and Sara spoke to a doctor who'd treated the woman for cancer, Greg spoke to the woman that was thought to be the killer's muse. Later, a woman who'd Russell comforted was found murdered. Nick and Greg searched her home and found a piece of a photo. They soon determined the woman was actually the mother of the doctor and the doctor killed the women and tried to make them resemble his mother.
D.B. recommended Greg to work with a former colleague of his from Seattle, Julie "Finn" Finlay. He helped her reconstruct blood events in a shooting, and she came to work with the team.
Finn came to work with the team as they investigated a stolen house. Greg and D.B. investigated when a man was found dead in a street, missing an arm and a leg. They learned the man was tied to the stolen house and a dead body found under the house. When they learned the victim was stabbed before falling from the house after it was stolen, Greg and Morgan searched the street the victim was found on. They found the knife broken into pieces. When they rebuilt the knife handle at the lab, Morgan and Greg found a fingerprint. The fingerprint belonged to the long-absent father of the three grown children who were arguing about the house. The father was arrested. When Finn and Sara returned to the house, the three children were still arguing. Finn threatened to cut the house apart with a chainsaw, and told them the owner of the house owed the city several thousand dollars in damages. The two brothers gave the house to the sister, who donated the house to the city and, because of that, didn't have to pay any damages.
As the team were called to investigate a missing boy and his nanny, Las Vegas was plunged into a blackout. Greg and Morgan examined the blood found at the crime scene, and determined the nanny was the boy's surrogate mother. When Morgan walked into Greg as he was carrying a knife, she told him it would put her out of her misery since she couldn't determine what knocked the boy unconscious when he was taken. Greg gave her an old microscope, and told her to "forget old school, go ancient." Morgan determined the boy was knocked unconscious after his nanny was killed. After Brass interrogated a psychic who held a séance to contact the boy's mother who accidentally drowned years before, power was restored and the team determined the psychic was obsessed with the dead woman and killed the nanny. Nick and Sara found the boy safe at the psychic's apartment as D.B. found the psychic dead in the man's pool. After the boy was safely returned, Morgan was putting the microscope back in the display case, and Greg asked if she might need it again. Morgan smiled and said, "Why go old school?" Greg smiled and said, "When you can go ancient."
He and the team investigated when a convicted killer claimed Det. Vega beat a confession out of him. As they worked to ensure he stayed in jail, they discovered he committed another crime.
Studied for his IAI Criminalistics certification and discovered a truck wrecked in a road race as the result of a bomb (Dune And Gloom).
After D.B.'s granddaughter was kidnapped by crooked cops working for imprisoned undersheriff Jeff McKeen, Nick threatened to quit. When the girl was rescued, Nick, Sara and Greg watched news footage of the arrests. Sara asked Nick if he was coming back, and Greg talked to him and told him they were a team. Nick ultimately returned to the team.
He, Sara and Nick stopped at a popular diner for breakfast when they came across a multiple homicide. Greg was briefly locked in the freezer, but found a camera that would help their investigation and was able to call Finn to get him out (Code Blue Plate Special).
After Warrick Brown's death, it was unclear what happened to the book Greg wrote about the history of the Vegas mob. In 2012, music journalist Alison Bailey was found murdered. Greg had a brief relationship with her, and a copy of his book was found in her hotel room (It Was A Very Good Year).
He and the team investigated when a minister was murdered at the gravesite of Warrick Brown.
Investigated when a body found was a girl that went missing in Seattle years before. Finn went to Seattle to find the suspected killer, but he came to Vegas and held a press conference saying he didn't do it. When the suspect was killed, D.B. and Greg investigated as Finn met with a victim who was raped by the man. She identified the man's lawyer as one of her rapists. The lawyer was arrested and told Brass the names of others involved.
As the team patrolled the Strip with police, Greg and a police officer interrogated a man dressed in drag. Calling himself "Josslyn," he insisted he was pregnant and slapped Greg when he asked if he was taking anything. The officer tied Josslyn to a chair, but later let him go. When Josslyn insisted he was going into labor, he grabbed a pair of scissors from a paramedic and stabbed himself to death. At the autopsy, Greg and Doc Robbins learned he'd swallowed several balloons of cocaine.
As the team investigated a plane crash, Greg met with Donna Hoppe, the genealogist who helped him when a man was killed in Doc Robbins' home, when Morgan hired her to put a family crest together for her father's Christmas gift.
He and Nick supported Sara when she was a suspect in the murder of a man she'd spent time with in his hotel room. It was later determined Sara's stalker committed the murder. Sara revealed she and Grissom split up, but Nick and Greg talked with her and told her they support her (Forget Me Not).
Greg and Morgan investigated when a poker player was murdered in an elevator. When Nick and Sara found another poker player dead, they realized someone was killing poker players who'd cheated in a major tournament years before. When they realized the daughter of the poker player who lost the game and later committed suicide was the killer, Greg, Morgan and police went to a local park to find her and the last poker player in the tournament. Nick found the man safe as Morgan talked to the woman. When the woman pulled a gun on Morgan, she shot and killed her. Greg took the gun from her shaking hand and told her it would be okay. Morgan later spoke to her father, who'd agreed to become the new sheriff.
He and the team investigated when a woman was killed at David Phillips high school reunion. Greg and Morgan later found one of the suspects drunk on the football field of the high school with blood on him. When a bomb that was planted ten years ago was found, Greg pieced together a mask that was found with the bomb. David told him it was the face of a classmate who committed suicide. Later, the killers were arrested, and David and his wife Amy welcomed their baby son Joshua.
Revisited his psychic past when he investigated the death of a ghost hunter who was killed after talking to him about his grandmother, Nana Olaf. He revisited the crime scene, hoping to connect with the young boys who were killed at the scene years before. He caught the killer when the man almost hit him with a hammer (Ghosts Of The Past).
When prostitutes were found murdered and staged to look like images from Dante's Inferno, Morgan went undercover to catch the presumed killer. Nick and Greg followed her, but she was kidnapped by the killer. Greg and Ecklie found Morgan shot but alive, and she recovered while the killer went to jail.
When a security guard and robber were killed in a casino robbery, the hotel maintenance man said his baby son had been kidnapped as leverage for helping in the robbery. As Greg and Morgan processed the baby's room, she broke down in tears, thinking of her own kidnapping and how helpless the child was. When the baby was found, Morgan was giving him back to his father when Sara and police arrived and arrested the father, who was the mastermind behind the robbery.
He, Morgan and the team investigated when contestants on a reality cooking show accidentally consumed human flesh. Greg discovered the dead man was a contestant on the show that no one liked. When a second contestant was killed, Greg and the team learned the two men raped and murdered a woman years before. Greg discovered a fingerprint that led to the show's producer. The producer was the sister of the men's original victim, and realized who they were when a female contestant came to her and told her she was attacked in the same manner.
Discovered evidence in a cold case that cleared a Vegas recluse of murder (Frame By Frame).
Investigated for planting evidence at a crime scene when he was a CSI Level One. He was ultimately cleared (Under A Cloud).
Morgan investigated a serial rape case with swing shift CSI Dawn Banks. When Dawn went missing, Greg and Morgan went to her home and found her teen son, who'd been having drug problems. Morgan and day shift CSI Sean Yeager later found Dawn after she'd attempted suicide. She survived, the rapist was arrested, and Dawn's son vowed to stay clean for her.
The team investigated several murders that occurred in the same hotel room. After David Hodges was sprayed with a LSD and attacked Henry, Greg and Nick investigated the room. They found the LSD connected to the neighboring room, and the room's occupant told them the hotel manager put it there and let him stay if he didn't say anything.
When Finn went missing after a girls' weekend with Sara and Morgan went wrong, Nick and D.B. travelled to the nearby town where they were stranded. D.B. found Finn injured after being hit by a car. Morgan and Greg processed and found a bruise on Finn's leg was a badge for the "Million Mile Club," for classic cars that had a million miles or more. Morgan realized they'd met the man, and Nick and town police arrested him.
Greg and the team investigated when a man dressed as Santa Claus was murdered at an elaborate holiday party. Greg found the owner of the party supply business was the brother of a man who was in jail for drug trafficking, and the brother arranged the murder of employees at a bank that laundered his money. One of the murder victims was the wife of the man who'd hosted the party. The team learned the dead woman's husband killed the party Santa, thinking it was the business owner, because the owner was to donate a kidney to his imprisoned brother. The owner kidnapped the man, and Greg realized where the water that was turned into snow for the business came from. Police arrived and saved the man, and both were arrested. Later, the man's young son waited for his grandparents with Hodges, and read a story called The Found Reindeer as the CSIs enjoyed a Christmas party. Morgan smiled and hugged Greg when he revealed himself to be her "Secret Santa."
When journalist John Merchinston, who'd been writing a story about the team during the Date's Inferno killer investigation, was thought to be killed in a car crash, the team and Sean Yeager investigated. When Merchinston was revealed to be alive, they discovered he'd been writing a story about a top-secret military project. As the FBI investigated, Nick showed Greg and Morgan a photo of a fingerprint from the crime scene, and they realized the print had no pores and was fake. Knowing the FBI was watching, Greg asked Hodges for help. Hodges found information that led to someone higher up than the FBI. After Greg, Nick and police found the supposed mastermind dead, D.B. interrogated the man he believed orchestrated the crimes and killed a woman he'd had an affair with.
When Nick and Doc Robbins went to Mexico to investigate the murder of the daughter of Doc's friend, Greg and Sara investigated a woman and her brother-in-law found dead encased in cement in their driveway. They soon learned the two murders were committed by the same person.
When a Bible student and preacher's daughter was found murdered, Nick and Greg went to a building and learned the girl spent her last night alive in a brothel. As Greg and Finn investigated, they learned one of the prostitutes was the dead girl's sister. Nick and Detective Crawford learned from the Brime County Supervisor, one of the brothel's clients, that he paid the girls' mother for sex with the girls. When confronted, the woman angrily admitted she was once a prostitute and did turn her adopted daughters into prostitutes, and killed the girl when she tried to run to her father.
Met with his chess mentor when people were killed similar to moves in the game of chess. Greg hadn't played chess in years, but later played a game with Sara (Killer Moves).
A teenage boy opened fire at the police station, killing two cops, wounding Officer Mitchell and a civilian and taking Russell hostage. Greg delivered a laptop and supplies, including an epinephrine pen with a microphone hidden inside, to Russell. Ultimately, Russell was freed safely but the teen was shot and killed by police (The Fallen).
He and Nick investigated a man who claimed to have been attacked by a cannibal. At first, they dismissed the man. But they later found evidence of a cannibalistic killer in Vegas (Consumed).
When a man claiming to be the Gig Harbor Killer - who Russell and Finn arrested in Seattle - contacted Russell and trapped Finn in her car with a bomb, Greg and the team investigated.
When a woman was shot and killed in a marijuana store, Greg and the team discovered she had been contacted by someone who'd abducted her brother and the family of the store owner. The woman's brother was discovered murdered, and the team learned he and the store owner's wife were having an affair and the wife was behind everything (Buzz Kill).
He and Sara responded to a crime scene and discovered the victim had the Ibare virus. Greg and Sara were quarantined as the team investigated with the CDC. Sara passed out from a 100.4 fever, but tests showed she and Greg were not infected with the virus. They were cleared and released.
Greg and the team investigated when a high school teacher caught on fire. They learned several employees of the school were Wiccans. After the murder of the quarterback, Greg and Morgan found an altar and disarmed the school janitor, who kept the altar in his closet. Later, Morgan and Detective Crawford arrested the killer.
Greg investigated when a body was found in a van while Morgan, Sara and Finn were at a conference at a local hotel. When someone opened fire at the conference, Greg and the team investigated, and their colleagues were later saved.
On the hunt for the Gig Harbor Killer, he and Finn arrived at a warehouse and found a terrified woman. When Finn called for backup, Greg looked for a blanket to put around the woman. When he looked back, she knocked him unconscious with a pipe. When Greg came to, he saw the woman looking for his gun. Since his police radio had been knocked over, it sent out a distress signal. The woman held Greg at gunpoint, and Finn returned and urged her to put the gun down. Greg tried to talk to her and reached for his radio, when the woman tried to shoot him. Finn shot the woman dead. Later, Greg confessed to Sara that he wondered what more he could have done. She told him he did the right thing.
When a man was found murdered in an alley, the team learned he was a Rubber Doll and dressed up in full-body plastic. Greg and D.B. went to a club where other Rubber Dolls met, and one man ran when Greg approached him. Greg identified himself as a CSI, and the man said he knew he was a cop. After the arrest of the killer, Greg and Morgan chatted about how people have more than one side. Greg updated his social network status and they planned to go out for a beer.
When a "murderabilia" collector was found dead in a car belonging to a serial killer, Greg and Morgan were investigating as two teens tried to have a picture taken at the crime scene. When one of the teens said he wanted a picture because he'd never seen a dead body, Greg informed him that he'd seen plenty and there was nothing "cool" about it. Later, the team discovered the killer was the other teen Greg talked to at the crime scene. The teen informed Greg that he shared a "bond" with the deceased serial killer, and Greg told him he was "one needle away" from making his dream of joining him a reality.
When a man was found murdered in an alley dressed like a comic book superhero, Greg and Finn investigated a store near the crime scene where a suspect cut his hand on broken glass. Later, he and Morgan searched the alley to find a homeless man who witnessed the crime. When the "hero's" two fellow superheroes approached Morgan, Greg came up and ordered them to back away. He and Morgan informed the two of their friend's death, and the team learned they were a part of a real-life "superhero movement."
As the team closed in on Paul Winthrop, the twin brother of the Gig Harbor Killer, Greg and Morgan searched the garage to find Finn as Russell negotiated with the man. After police shot Winthrop, Greg and Morgan found a bloody, unconscious Finn in a car trunk. Greg performed CPR to bring her back.
Before Vegas:
Briefly lived in New York (Burked)xxxxx
After Vegas:
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Miscellaneous:
Wrote a book, "Sin City Secrets" about the history of the mob in Vegas. xxxxx
Drinks Blue Hawaiian coffee.
Grandfather, Papa Olaf, was tossed out of Norway for getting his grandmother pregnant before they were married. (Let The Seller Beware)
His grandmother, Nana Olaf, was psychic, and his family thought Greg inherited her psychic gift.
Has perfect eyesight (Premum Non Nocere)
Belonged to a gym and practiced Muy Thai, a form of competitive kickboxing (Up In Smoke).
Could tell when Grissom was quoting something (Dog Eat Dog)
Doesn't like chilaquiles (Code Blue Plate Special).
A fan of The X Files
An Eagle Scout when he was a kid (Toe Tags)
Has his own bowling ball that looks like a dice (Lovers Lanes)
Worked at a fast food restaurant in high school (Under A Cloud)
Used to be in the Goth lifestyle. He told Nick he stopped because, "You act depressed to get chicks, you get depressed chicks." (Goodbye And Good Luck)
Hates how families of people who abuse children protect the abusers (418/427).
Likes Cuban music, Sex Pistols, and a variety of other styles as well (Exiled).
Used to build little bombs when he was a kid (A La Cart).
His cell phone ringtone was once Feel Like Making Love (Rashomama).
Built a homemade electromagnet for his 8th grade science fair project (Turn, Turn, Turn).
A college roommate of his played hockey and made Greg get his skates sharpened. The roommate later went on to play for the Edmonton Oilers (Premum No