Prime suspect
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A prime suspect or key suspect is a person who is considered by the law enforcement agency investigating a crime to be the most likely suspect.[1][2] The idiom "prime suspect" believed to have originated in 1931.[1] "Key suspect" is seen as early as 1948.[3]
There are various reasons a person may be considered a prime suspect. These include:
- Being positively identified as the only person seen at or near the scene of the crime around the time the crime occurred
- Being linked by some form of forensic evidence, such as DNA
- Being named by witness(es)
- Having the most likely motive to commit the crime
- Having knowledge that only one who committed the crime would have
- Having a history of committing crimes with some resemblance to the crime being investigated
- Having confessed to the act
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Prime suspect". Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon. Dictionary.com, LLC. 06 Aug. 2014.
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