Prime suspect
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For other uses, see Prime suspect (disambiguation).
A prime suspect is a person who is considered by the law enforcement agency investigating a crime to be the most likely suspect.
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
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