Board Thread:Theories/@comment-26415426-20171201232556

In another thread, we were talking about Alice and Hal and what could possibly be in their complicated history. I thought of Alice's mugshot and how she said she was sure she'd gotten it cleared off every system in the world (or something dramatic like that), but it still wound up being found. Now, Hal is a newspaper guy, who might have some connections and somehow is able to get his hand on a file. But the more likely place for that file to be is somewhere in the very outdated police system of Riverdale that seems to still do everything by hand. Obviously, BH has a way into the police station or he wouldn't have been able to get to the Sugarman. We saw the busted up door lock as the explanation but that could just be a coverup.

I've been opposed to this idea, but what if it's Hal? Firstly, we know that he broke into Sherrif Keller's office and stole those files. Files which may have potentially included that mugshot of Alice Cooper. Even if they didn't, he could still potentially get his hands on it with a key he might have stolen right out of Keller's office. He might not ever check for the spare; he might have after the break-in at the station, but if a key was used, evidence of that was covered up by the busted lock, so why would he check? I really don't have a motive for him or anything, I just started thinking about this possibility.  