An example of a perpetrator is a person who robs a bank.
The actual perpetrator of the deed, a soldier, was tried and executed, but he was apparently ignorant of the persons who procured his services.
It was a moonless night and the perpetrator cut the power, pitching the farm house into total darkness.
The perpetrator proved to be a thirteen year old girl, scarcely known to the victim, jealous of an older boy's changing affections.
Carrier, the perpetrator of the noyades of Nantes.
Martha was angry, certainly at the perpetrator but also at the Warwick police for not summarily arresting the man and rescuing the boy.