Could Betty's Dad Be the Black Hood on 'Riverdale?'
receives a letter from the Black Hood addressed to her at the Blue and Gold. Included with the [...]
The eyes of a killer
The Black Hood's face has been obscured by, well, a black hood, but the killer's eyes are distinctive. When Archie tells Sheriff Keller everything he can recall about the man who shot his father, Archie says that the thing he remembers most vividly is the attacker's bright green eyes. Distinctive green eyes -- or even blue-green eyes -- aren't a commonly seen feature on Riverdale unless it's someone in the Cooper family. With the Black Hood being male, that rules out Alice, Betty, and Polly Cooper but Hal? He has vivid green eyes that look an awful lot like the Black Hood's.
prevnextHal Cooper knew about Mrs. Grundy's sin
In the letter the Black Hood sent to Alice Cooper, the killer detailed that the reason Mrs. Grundy was killed was because she was a child predator. What's interesting about that admission is that Mrs. Grundy's inappropriate involvement with students is very specific information that only a select few knew about what she did with Archie. The only people, in terms of adults, who knew are Alice Cooper and Fred Andrews. That's not information Alice would withhold from her husband and since Alice isn't the killer, but the killer knew about Mrs. Grundy, and Fred Andrews didn't shoot himself that really only leaves Hal Cooper.
prevnextThe killer's cypher was designed for Betty
While at Jughead's trailer Betty realizes that the symbols the Black Hood used in his cypher are very familiar to her and later, once Jughead knows about the letter the killer sent her, she admits that it was written for her to solve. That means whoever the Black Hood is has to know Betty well enough to be able to craft a code that only she would be able to crack. While there are likely a number of people who would knew Betty well enough to create a code only she could solve -- Archie, Jughead, even her sister could probably come up with one -- we know that of that list of people only one really fits what we know about the Black Hood and that is her father. Who better to write a code that only Betty could solve than the man who likely knows her the best?
prevnextThe killer has Betty's number
When Betty's phone rings at the end of tonight's episode it's from an unknown caller who identifies themselves at the Black Hood. Whoever the killer is has Betty's phone number, which might not be that hard to get, but also knows that Betty is alone. Both of those are things Betty's father would know. While this clue is admittedly a little more circumstantial than the previous clues, add them all together and it feels like a pretty convincing case that Hal Cooper could be the killer terrorizing Riverdale.
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