Minor Character: Las Vegas | |
Name | Laura Sidle |
Gender | Female |
Family | Sara Sidle (daughter) Unnamed husband (deceased) Gil Grissom (son-in-law) |
City | Las Vegas |
Pathology | Murderer |
Status | Institutionalized |
Portrayed By | Kay Lenz |
First Appearance | Forget Me Not |
Laura Sidle is the mother of Sara Sidle. In the episode House of Hoarders, Sara tells a suspect that her mother was schizophrenic and stabbed her father in the heart repeatedly while he slept. A few years later in the episode Forget Me Not, Laura is admitted to the hospital after getting her hands on a bottle of alcohol in her care facility. While there, she has an interaction with stalker and killer Ronald Basderic. Ronald later confesses to Sara that he stabbed a victim seven times, mimicking the number of times Laura stabbed her husband.