Prime suspect

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" is believed to have originated in 1931.^[1] "Key suspect" is seen as early as 1948.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "Prime suspect"Archived 2015-09-11 at the Wayback Machine. Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon. Dictionary.com, LLC. 06 Aug. 2014.
^ "prime suspect". USLegal.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
^ Congressional Record Volume 94, Part 9. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1948. p. A-695. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

[dictcom-1] "Prime suspect"Archived 2015-09-11 at the Wayback Machine. Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon. Dictionary.com, LLC. 06 Aug. 2014.

[2] "prime suspect". USLegal.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved August 6, 2014.

[3] Congressional Record Volume 94, Part 9. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1948. p. A-695. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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