"Chief suspect" refers to the person who is believed to be most likely responsible for a crime or wrongdoing. They are the main person of interest in an investigation.
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Douglas plays Nick Curran, recovering alcoholic SF police detective with a murky past; Sharon Stone is Catherine Tramell, the blonde bombshell
chief suspect in his murder investigation.
The
Fire Chief suspects that the crew attempted to put the fire out, and that it's likely that they waited before they called 911.
The one in the dark hat is «Suspect One» and the one in the white hat is «Suspect Two,» they're believed to be connected, and they're the FBI's two
chief suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case.
The
Fire Chief suspects that the crew attempted to put the fire out, and that it's likely that they waited before they called 911.
A teenage male may be
the chief suspect in a vandalism spree late Friday at a Clinton Street business, according to Buffalo Police reports.
But some other animal must be able to host the virus without dying from it, and bats are
the chief suspect.
Illegal dumping and poor disposal of toxic waste — including a large ships» graveyard in Mauritania — are among
the chief suspects.
The gripping story of a dedicated police officer who discovers that
the chief suspect in his current murder investigation is his own son.
A killer is murdering teenage girls in this community and Pascal is
a chief suspect.
When the device's creator turns up murdered, they become
the chief suspects and must discover the truth to clear their name.
Hunt described to her how he had been disavowed - and was
the chief suspect responsible for the murders of Phelps and fellow agents.
Very swiftly, they find
a chief suspect and he is promptly arrested, amidst the vitriol of the local community.
Jimmy's childhood friends Sean and Dave (Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins) soon become embroiled in the case — Sean because he's the detective given the job of investigating it, and Dave because he soon emerges as
the chief suspect.
Virginal high - school student Toby (Kristen Riter) decides that she'll try to solve the mystery, only to find herself one of
the chief suspects.
Which is just as well as someone is stealing London's gnomes and
the chief suspect is Holmes's long - standing adversary, Moriarty.
Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) becomes
the chief suspect when his wife goes missing in the David Fincher thriller «Gone Girl.»
To the public, Ig is
the chief suspect in the murder of Merrin (Juno Temple), who had been his girlfriend since the two were kids.
His chief suspects are music hall superstar Dan Leno, political agitator Karl Marx, writer and philosopher George Gissing and journalist John Cree.
George becomes
the chief suspect, and the investigation turns up details about his personal life — secret relationships, temper issues, a disintegrating marriage — that cast his innocence in doubt for everyone but his closest family.
A global manhunt sweeps up a former federal agent when his childhood friend becomes
the chief suspect in a terrorist rampage.
The chief suspect has disappeared, his abandoned girlfriend is on the warpath, and the lead profiler in the case suffers from what may be early onset dementia.
Spectacular Happiness opens when Chip is named as
the chief suspect in a series of anarchist bombings of beachfront trophy homes.
They part ways only to come face to face 20 years later when another girl goes missing, and Larry is once again
the chief suspect.
The horror only increases when Harry, Bridget's cousin, becomes
the chief suspect.
The chief suspect is desperate to see her but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight — he lies dead in his cell, the words «Not me» scrawled across the walls.
The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution.
The chief suspected source of bias is from urbanization.