Soon afterward, she joined the Miami-Metro Police Department, where he had worked. She was immediately remorseful for saying it, however, and apologized.ĭebra was devastated when Harry died of an apparently accidental overdose of heart medication - unaware that he in fact committed suicide, unable to live with having trained Dexter to get away with murder. Hurt, Debra told Dexter that she wished that Harry had never brought him home. Dexter found out and told Harry, who punished her. From then on, she decided to become a homicide detective, like her father, and took Harry's gun to practice shooting. When Debra was a teenager, her mother died of cancer. Tough, foul-mouthed, and rompish, she craved her father's attention and envied Dexter for the amount of time Harry spent with him, unaware that Harry was training him to be a vigilante serial killer. Hall), whom Harry brought home after rescuing him from the scene of his mother's murder. She is the foster sister to Dexter Morgan ( Michael C. Debra is the sister of the series' antihero protagonist Dexter Morgan.Ĭharacter history Early life ĭebra was born to Doris (Kathrin Lautner Middleton) and Harry Morgan ( James Remar) on December 7, 1979. In Lindsay's novels, she first appeared in Darkly Dreaming Dexter and was featured in every novel in the series. She also appears in the television series, based on Lindsay's books, portrayed by Jennifer Carpenter. Savannah Paige Rae (young Debra, season 7)ĭebra Charlotte Morgan (spelled Deborah in the novels) is a fictional character created by Jeff Lindsay for his Dexter book series.

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