This episode is based on an actual case, the murder of Linda Sobek. The case was solved by Elizabeth Devine who is the consulting producer of the show and a former CSI.
The Linda Sobek case, which this episode is based on, inspired Anthony Zuiker to create CSI.
Actor Edmund Wyson plays a character named "Officer Devine, who is presumably named after Elizabeth Devine, the consulting producer of the series who not only co-wrote the episode but who, when she was an actual CSI, solved the case upon which "After The Show" is based.