The Milkman, also known as Melvin, is a major antagonist of Season 7 of the CW soap opera Riverdale. In the 1955 universe, he is a serial killer disguised as a milkman whose crimes are purpotedly inspired by Pep Comics.
He is portrayed by Matty Finochio.
Biography[]
At some point before he was introduced, it's implied The Milkman killed an actual milkman named Melvin and wears his uniform to kill people on milk deliveries. On the night of the Sock Hop, Ethel Muggs came home only to find her parents dead and saw The Milkman leaving her house. She reports her parents' deaths to Sheriff Keller, but she and Jughead are wrongfully accused of the murder because of Jughead's "The Milkman Cometh" story for Pep Comics and a drawing Ethel made of her parents being killed. Fortunately, both are exonerated because of their whereabouts during the murder.
Weeks later. The Milkman shows up at Brad Rayberry's door and kills him, hanging his body to stage it as suicide. When Jughead investigates Mr. Rayberry's apartment, he is informed by an elderly upstairs neighbor that she heard The Milkman stop by the night of Mr. Rayberry's murder, causing Jughead to realize it's the same milkman who killed Ethel's parents.
On Halloween night, The Milkman breaks into Mr. Rayberry's apartment again and attacks Ethel, who is now living there after escaping from the Sisters of Quiet Mercy. However, Ethel gets the upper hand and stabs The Milkman to death with a kitchen knife in self-defense, thus avenging her parents and Mr. Rayberry's deaths.
It's later revealed he was working for Clifford Blossom and killed Ethel's parents to keep them from exposing Clifford's palladium bomb that he planned on selling to Russia.
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