Possible culprits

Usage examples of suspects.

I forgot that it is not possible to stop at friendship with a pretty woman whom one sees constantly, and especially when one suspects her of being in love herself.

The two suspects told police that White had hocked many items, including various guns and his service revolver, to purchase drugs.

Officers showed people photo lineups in their search for suspects but failed to record whose photographs were shown and which, if any, had been recognized.

If you ask me why I do not undertake the work myself, I can only say that the gaoler suspects me, and the objection will doubtless seem to you a weighty one.

Notwithstanding these damning proofs, however, the girl persists in believing her lover to be perfectly innocent, while she suspects another man, who has also been making love to her, though she has no evidence whatever against him, except that she feels by instinct that he is a villain who would stick at nothing.

He goes up to London, and returning on the evening of the day when the old man is buried, he and Watson and the detective go to the cottage of the man whom the girl suspects, taking with him a man whom Holmes has brought from London, who has a disguise which makes him the living image of the murdered man, wizened body, grey shrivelled face, skull-cap, and all.

So here was a hint that the writer of the Tarantula missive was a foreignerand one of our three suspects is a foreigner.

Unlike his other contemporaries, he does not have a promiscuous, sex life and prefers to read or study artthe paintings of the Japanese artist Kuniyoshi are among his favouritesand often surprises the wealthy Californians who form the majority of his clients and suspects with his knowledge and erudition.

My mother is a clever woman, and perhaps she suspects the truth, but she is aware that it is no longer any concern of hers.

If no one but the killer or killers knew the exact nature of the wounds, for example, the questioning of suspects would be easier.

Hutcheson never explained how her interest came to focus on Jessie, but it may have been no coincidence that his name was on the list of suspects that Driver had given to Bray.

None of the trailer homes where the three suspects lived were difficult to approach, day or night.

But Burnett ruled that testimony about other suspects would not be allowed.

Public curiosity being what it is, in the absence of any hard, cold facts other than the names, ages and addresses of the suspects, speculation is bound to continue.

Thanks in part to the data analysis that Fiona and one of her graduate students had completed, the police had been able to narrow down their pool of suspects to the point where forensic detection could be applied.