Tripp
Eisen: The Static-X Sex Offender
Tripp Eisen, born Tod Rex Salvador,
was born June 29th, 1965. He has played in various bands
such as Murderdolls, Dope, and most notably, Static-X.
Eisen’s
first band Dope was formed in 1997, with the band being signed to
Sony in 1998. The band toured after the release of their 1999 album
‘Felons and Revolutionaries’, where he eventually met Wayne
Static and Joey Jordison. Eisen and Jordison bonded over their
‘mutual love’ of bands like The Ramones and Manowar.
During
this same time period, Static-X reached popularity with their first
album ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’, and toured heavily promoting it.
After the tour was over, original guitarist Koichi Fukuda left the
band, to be replaced with Eisen.
On
February 10th, 2005, Eisen was arrested for “one felony
count of crimes against children”. It was reported that he was
found sleeping in a parked car with an underage female that he had
just had intercourse with. He was later taken into custody with
$100,000 bail of which he made several hours later. He was 39 at the
time.
On
February 24th
of that same year, he was arrested again on
charges of kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, luring to entice a
minor through the Internet and endangering the welfare of a child. He
allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old girl from
Sayreville, New Jersey that
he met through "Find-a-Freek," an online community on
Fetischmusic .com. His
username was ‘groveryodadata’.
Eisen’s
online profile lied about his age and identity, where he stated that
he was 31 years old (he was 39), and was a fan of Static-X that
looked like himself. He also touted to being Republican with a PhD
with an interest in meeting
people of all educational levels, including "elementary"
school.
Eisen
exchanged emails with the young girl, eventually agreeing to meet her
at a mall on January 7 of that year. When he met the girl, he drove
around with her being having “consensual” sex. Later, the girl’s
mother reported the incident to the authorities.
Once
the rest of Static-X found out about Eisen’s crimes, they kicked
him out and replaced with original guitarist Fukuda.
In
June of 2005, Eisen plead guilty through plea bargain to his crime in
California (the first offense that happened in that year), and was
sentenced to a year in prison. His defense counsel claimed that the
plaintiff’s “credibility was shaky. She
told people she was anywhere from 14 to 19. She told a cop one age, a
detective another, Eisen
another. She met him at an 18-and-older club, so she either had a
fake ID or lied to the bouncers. We weakened the prosecution's case,
but really, Eisen
had a reasonable, good-faith belief that she was an adult “.
He
spent February through September of 2005 in prison.
Later
that year, he had to go to New Jersey for his arraignment on the
second charges. Somewhere in between this time, he was incarcerated
in New Jersey.
Later,
on April 17, 2007, Eisen was released from the Mid-State Correctional
Facility, but was back in jail December 10th,
2008 for a parole violation, and later released on October 19th,
2009.
In
an interview with Totally Driven Radio, Eisen stated about his
crimes:
“Horrible
judgment. What happened to me was really bad judgment, terrible
mistakes that I made, and I paid a price for ’em.”
[SOURCES]
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