The phrase
"to catch the culprit" means to find and identify the person responsible for a crime or wrongdoing.
Full definition
In order to
catch the culprits with a crack investigation team, the French authorities bring in a patsy to distract the media attention.
However, the nasty little critters jump around so erratically and quickly that you'll likely
never catch the culprit red handed.
Last summer Rienhoff thought he had
caught the culprit in a gene called CPNE1, but he quickly discarded the possibility because the mutation turned out to be too common to explain such a rare disorder.
In order to
catch the culprit or culprits, the CHP has deployed decoy buses to patrol Interstate 280.
Detective Inspector Kim Stone is pulled into the case and has to
catch the culprit — whose crime spree could span years, decades even — before he or she strikes again.
But she admits that
catching the culprits is challenging too since some disposals are done at night.
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to
catch the culprit.
In this darkly comic drama, a mother (Frances McDormand) personally challenges local authorities to solve her daughter's murder, when they fail to
catch the culprit.
Plot: In this darkly comic drama, a mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder, when they fail to
catch the culprit.
Hardboiled detectives and private investigators are a mainstay of the mystery genre, but sometimes a surprising figure takes the lead in solving a crime or
catching a culprit.
Discovering that they may have the power to help the would - be victims, they set out to prevent as many casualties as they can while solving the surrounding mysteries and attempting to
catch the culprit.