User:Editus Reloaded/Det. Tripp draft

= Draft: Det. Frank Tripp (using Calleigh Duquesne as template) =

Detective Frank Tripp is a fictional character on the hit CBS drama CSI: Miami. He is portrayed by Rex Linn.

Background
Frank Tripp is a fictional lieutenant in the Homicide Divison of the Miami-Dade Police Department. In CSI:Miami, he frequently accompanies Horatio Caine and his team of CSIs to crime scenes, as well as assisting them in serving warrants. He has a great deal of knowledge of forensic procedures and respects the efforts and results of the CSI team (compared to his counterpart on CSI:Crime Scene Investigation, Jim Brass). Consequently, he has a good working relationship with all the CSIs, particularly Calleigh Duquesne.

Frank Tripp is originally from Texas (Rex Linn, the actor who portrays him, once missed a day's shooting of CSI:Miami to watch the Rose Bowl when the Texas Longhorns were playing). As a child, Tripp dreamed of being a firefighter. However, after his leg was shattered in a car accident, he fell in love with crime fiction during his many weeks' convalescence. Consequently, he joined the police straight out of school, and was later transferred to MDPD's gang unit before moving to Homicide.

Relationships
The only one of Tripp's relationship that is mentioned in the show is a past marriage to his wife, who is not named in the show; they had three children, also unnamed, together. He divorced her after his alcoholism got out of hand 1.

Calleigh Duquesne