Does introducing alternative suspects diminish belief in a defendant's guilt? Participants read a fictional murder trial transcript. In some conditions, the defense attorney described how one or more other people could have committed the crime. Accusing one alternative suspect dramatically reduced guilty verdicts. However, accusing two or three was not much better than accusing one. Theoretically, the story model and support theory can be interpreted as accounting for these results. Practically, a defense that argues not only that the defendant is innocent but also that some other individual(s) could have committed the crime is more likely to attain an acquittal.