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Noun: perpetrator  'pur-pu,trey-tu(r)
  1. Someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
    "the trail led straight to the perpetrator";
    - culprit, perp [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: perpetrators

Type of: offender, wrongdoer

Encyclopedia: Perpetrator

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