CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 7) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 7) The seventh season of "" premiered on CBS on September 21, 2006 and ended May 17, 2007. The series stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger. Catherine heads to a small town in Nevada ("Leaving Las Vegas") as Grissom and Sara continue their affair ("Living Doll"), in the seventh season of "CSI". Supervised by Grissom and Willows, the Las Vegas Crime Scene Investigators face both personal and professional challenges as Grissom says goodbye, and new CSI Michael Keppler joins the team ("Sweet Jane"), as they investigate the bizarre, the brutal, and the unprecedented, including a
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation auction ended October 7, with the prop being sold for $15,600; CBS donated the proceeds to the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association. Real-life crime scene investigators and forensic scientists warn that popular television shows like "CSI" (often specifically citing "CSI") do not give a realistic picture of the work, wildly distorting the nature of crime-scene investigators' work, and exaggerating the ease, speed, effectiveness, drama, glamour, influence, scope, and comfort level of their jobs, which they describe as far more mundane, tedious, limited, and boring, and very commonly failing to solve a crime. Another criticism of the show is the