Täter, when used by a German....means a guy who has committed some type of crime. The term Verbrecher also works.
If you go back a thousand years....the term was 'tat'.
I will also go and suggest that once a German suggests so-and-so is a Täter...even if the court case has yet to come up...the Germans zeroes out innocence....meaning he or she is to be convicted.
Oddly, the term wasn't really written down anywhere until the 1850s....when the Grimm brothers made it a national term. Up until that point, it was passed around....mouth-by-mouth.
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