Like Holmes, Grissom is dispassionate with a fierce devotion to logic and little regard for societal norms of behavior ; Grissom once smashed mustard jars in a grocery store to illustrate a theory (" I-15 Murders "), much as Holmes once practiced spearing a pig in a butchers to determine how strong a man would have to be to transfix a man with a harpoon.

She once insinuated that Grissom was a misanthrope when he quoted her Thoreau's Walden.

Some fans have always expected to see a relationship between Grissom and Catherine Willows, in whom he is shown confiding many times, once even likening her to being his " wife ".

Grissom and Sidle's relationship has been the subject of intense debate in the press and on-line forums, between fans of the romantic relationship and those who believe the romance detracts from what was once a show devoted mainly to mysteries and a forensics laboratory.

This use of the domination code by Grissom points to the mutual understanding of the characters, and perhaps to the nature of the relation once enjoyed by both.

The GSR (" Grissom and Sara Romance "; the abbreviation is a play on the term for gunshot residue, often mentioned in CSI ) has accumulated an extensive fan base during the years with some sites getting thousands of viewers a week.

Grissom became a crime scene investigator around 1985 ( Grissom mentioned in Living Doll, which first aired on May 17, 2007, that he had been a crime scene investigator for 22 years ).

In the episode " Grissom Vs. the Volcano ," Catherine tells the story of losing at a science competition as a child against a " kid with some lame red ants ".

When he was in college, Grissom financed his first body farm with his winnings from a high stakes poker game.

World War II broke out while Grissom was still in high school, and he was eager to enlist upon graduation.

Grissom died while putting the finishing touches on Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space ; he had been heavily involved in the engineering of the spacecraft.

White was buried with full military honors at West Point Cemetery while Grissom and Chaffee are both buried in Section 3 ( GPS Coordinates: 38. 873115 N ,-77. 072755 W ) of Arlington National Cemetery.

Chaffee and Grissom are both buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery, while White is buried at West Point Cemetery.

On April 6, 1972, the sheriff and two sheriff's deputies were killed in a shootout while attempting to serve a warrant on Bert Grissom ; Sheriff Douglas Batey and Deputies Glen Ray Archer and Troy Key were killed ; Sheriff Batey was replaced by William Thomas Pond as Sheriff, but Sheriff Pond was killed also on June 8, 1973, in an automobile accident.

Alou would become the leader in Expos games managed, while guiding the team to winning records, including 1994, when the Expos, led by a talented group of players including Larry Walker, Moisés Alou, Marquis Grissom and Pedro Martínez, had the best record in the major leagues until the 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike forced the cancellation of the remainder of the season.

Fred McGriff, who went two for three with a sacrifice fly, had single RBIs in the first, third, and fifth innings, while Marquis Grissom added a run-scoring single in the sixth.

In fact, the show's creators made Sara Sidle while thinking of a future love interest for Grissom, but during the show's first three seasons, Grissom flirted with all the female characters, and when Sara asked him out to dinner, he rejected her, claiming that he did not know what to do about what is going on between them.

She leaves at the conclusion of the second episode of the season, after having a thinly veiled argument with Grissom while dealing with the distraught husband of a victim whose case she had worked eight years prior.

Some time later, while she was working in San Francisco, Grissom called her because he was in need of someone outside the Las Vegas team.

In " Family Affair ", the first episode of Season 10, Sidle returns to work in the laboratory on a temporary basis, revealing that she and Grissom are now married and have been living in Paris while Grissom conducts a seminar at the Sorbonne.

The character has often met with the disapproval of his supervisor Gil Grissom, due to listening to loud music such as Marilyn Manson while running lab machines and hiding porn magazines in some area cabinets.

Grissom occasionally spent time at a local airport in Bedford, Indiana where he first became interested in flying.

He spent his early time in the majors playing in right field because established center fielders Marquis Grissom and Kenny Lofton were already entrenched in the position.

That season, Grissom ran seven Nationwide Series races for Frank Cicci Racing, then spent 2003 at DCT Motorsports.

Grissom re-enlisted in the military after his graduation from Purdue, this time in the newly formed United States Air Force.

Grissom flew 100 combat missions during his time in the war, serving as a wingman protecting the lead fighters.

During this time Grissom invented the multi-axis translation thruster controller used to push the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft in linear directions for rendezvous and docking.

Grissom was a Lieutenant Colonel at the time of his death, and he had logged a total of 4, 600 hours flying time, including 3, 500 hours in jet airplanes.

At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.

In late 1966, Schirra was assigned to command a three-man Apollo crew with Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham to make the second manned flight test of the Apollo Command / Service Module some time in 1967, after the first such flight to be made by Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

Three demo albums of Aiken's vocals were created before American Idol with the aid of studio time given as a birthday gift by his mother: a cassette called Look What Love Has Done ( by Clayton Grissom ), a cassette and CD entitled Redefined ( by Clayton Aiken ), and a CD that combined some songs from each of the previous demos: " Look What Love Has Done, Vol 2 " ( by Clay Aiken ).

McDivitt must have switched to the VOX setting somewhere around the time White was exiting the spacecraft, because at that point, for most of the EVA, neither he nor White responded either to the Hawaii CAPCOM, or to the Houston CAPCOM, Gus Grissom.

The novelizations of both films do expand upon the planned romantic subplot and establish that, by the time of David and Saavik's posting aboard the Grissom, they were already lovers.

Grissom performed exceptionally well in that postseason, winning the MVP award in the ALCS, and completing a 15 game World Series consecutive game hitting streak spanning 3 World Series, the 2nd longest of all time next to Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees.

This has been denied by the writers, Carol Mendelsohn even said that she has never been able to see Grissom with someone else other than Sara and that this episode was seen by the writers as the right time to reveal the relationship, Jorja Fox and William Petersen have also admitted that the relationship is not new.

In one interview, producer Carol Mendelsohn said that she has never been able to see Grissom with any other character other than Sidle and that this episode was seen by the writers as the right time to reveal the relationship.

Grissom's mother ends up criticising Sara for not spending much time with Grissom.

In Season Three episode Precious Metal, Greg first concretely expressed a desire to move from the DNA lab to the field despite the decrease in salary that this would involve, a statement in response to which Grissom looked at Greg as if seeing him for the first time.

The family remained there only briefly and in December 1951 they moved to Presque Isle, Maine where Grissom was assigned to Presque Isle Air Force Base and became a member of the 75th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.

Detectives noted that there were similarities between the Gainesville murders and those of 55-year-old William Grissom, his 24-year-old daughter Julie and eight-year-old grandson Sean.

Since CSIs first season there were hints that both Sara Sidle and Grissom were interested in each other romantically.

Since CSIs first season there were hints that both Sara Sidle and Gil Grissom were interested in each other romantically ; in fact, the show's producers initially introduced Sara Sidle as a future love interest for Grissom.

The 1993 Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) directed realignment of Grissom AFB to the Air Force Reserve and the 305th ARW phased out operations there in 1994.