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.