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Noun: perpetrator  'pur-pu`trey-tu(r)
  1. Someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
    "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"
    - culprit

Derived forms: perpetrators

See also: perpetrate

Type of: offender, wrongdoer

Encyclopedia: Perpetrator