Who is Red John?

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Heller wants us off track.
Yet there are several things that could be big clues but because of there simplicity we can hardly see the forest for the trees.

I suspect Wayne Rigsby. Why?

1. He speaks Spanish. - The use of Y in "Tyger, Tyger"
2. Most of RJ's victims are women. - He acts awkwardly in front of women
3. His dad Steve Rigsby is a member of IRON Gods Motorcycle Gang and stayed in prison in Lompoc, the same prison as Jared Renfrew & Orville Tanner's.
4. He looks like the man in photo killing Carter Peak. (Am I really the only one noticed it at first glance?)
5. He was the sort of character whom you expect the least being RJ & he's been there from the very first episode.
6. He likes Grace Van Pelt who has red hair.
7. He is the 3rd man whom GVP fell in love with: 1st the madman outside the CBI and 2nd this madman O'laughlin & then there's Rigsby. (could be RJ - a madman too)
8. He imitates Patrick for a couple of times.
9. He pretends to be naive - perhaps really a good actor, our man RJ.
10. Last but not the least, according to Sophie Mille, RJ's a good whistle blower.. Does nobody ever remember in the Season 2 episode 2: Scarlet Letter there is this scenario:



"The Mentalist: The Scarlet Letter (#2.2)" (2009)


Kimball Cho
: If she's a jumper, job's done.
Wayne Rigsby: Yeah. The senator's husband dumps her, she wants to make him feel bad
[Rigsby whistles]
Wayne Rigsby: splat.
Grace Van Pelt: Don't talk that way.
Wayne Rigsby: Okay not splat, bam.



Rosalind Harker's description of RJ could be misleading.

Rigsby's young but we never know the other side of the story.

And I can hardly recall there is this episode when Rigsby seems to have a phobia over something.. Gonna search for it.

=)


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Not a theory but a statement from B. Heller.

"There is a clue buried in that final sequence that will pay off big time in the finale of the Red John story. A very big clue. No one will get it from the clue as it is laid out in the episode, but it will pay off later."

It's certainly a problem for these first few episodes. How do you
confront these people when they know what you know, but you don't know
which one of these seven people is your man? They very much have to get
into each one of these suspects' business and to look and them and to
investigate them and to spend time with them. So, it's a game of cat and
mouse. It's not clear who's the cat and who's the mouse."

- BRUNO HELLER



Who's who then?

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I also think that Bret Partridge is RJ. He was in the first episode and also in the final episode of Season 5. Many other people have listed why he fits the physical and age profile of RJ. It's interesting that he appears at the beginning of 'Red John Rules', and is the last named suspect of the 7. I also suspect that PJ has set a trap for RJ with a fake list, apparently stolen by RJ, since some of the names are ridiculous (Bertram, Sheriff McAllister, Smith), but there is an apparent connection with Red Stiles who seems to know who RJ is. Also, his creator, Bruno Heller has said that many people will be disappointed when they find out RJ's identity, and BP is the #1 suspect, so that would indeed be disappointing. The video of Lorelei may have been edited down to Patrick's final 7 list. RJ wants PJ to think he has psychic powers to read his mind. It is possible that PJ's father is still alive and told someone close to RJ about Patrick's childhood.

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