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perpetrator

pur puh tray ter

  • n  someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

  • After the woman identified Fappiano from a photo lineup as the perpetrator, he was tried in 1985 and convicted of rape, sodomy, burglary and sexual abuse and sentenced to 20-50 .
  • The FBI deduced KSM's role only after analyzing a video of the crime, in which only the perpetrator's hands are visible.
  • The perpetrator was Richard Speck, then 24, a drifter born in Illinois, raised in Texas, wandering from petty crime to petty crime and bar to bar.
News & Articles

  • Free Burritos Alert (If You Can Solve A Crime)
    Attention hungry detectives: Fifty free burritos for whoever can finger the perpetrator of a break-in at Boloco. [ more › ]
    June 13, 2013 - DCist
  • Montclair authorities identify Greenwood Avenue shooter
    Police have named Devon Marshall, 20, as the perpetrator of the May 31 shooting.
    June 12, 2013 - The Record
  • Turkey detains a 'main perpetrator' of bombings that killed 51
    ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said it had detained a "main perpetrator" of the bombings that killed 51 people near the Syrian border last month, adding that the Turkish man had been caught as he tried to flee over the frontier. Turkey has accused Syria of involvement in the twin attacks in the border town of Reyhanli on May 11, but Damascus has denied any role. The provincial governor's office in ...
    June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Chris Gregoire in CNN International
    I offer whatever support is needed to the Pierce County Sheriff in their search for the perpetrator,Gregoire said.
  • Ed Schultz in International Herald Tribune
    He voted for this war. He's a perpetrator of the war. He's an advocate of the war,Schultz said. "In my personal definition, that's a warmonger."
  • Alfred Gusenbauer in TVNZ
    It's not Austria that is the perpetrator. This is an unfathomable criminal case, but also an isolated case,Gusenbauer said in his first public reaction.

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