Collection of thoughts.
Firstly Sheriff is the only suspect Patrick has given specific time to encounter and persay investigate. Well besides going to talk with Kirkland but I believe he had some other reasonings behind Kirkland and he knew Kirkland was not Red John but as we found out also after RJ. Saying this Sheriff is the only one Patrick has gone out of his way to put himself around and observe , I mean he went and took over his crime scene.
Now as I am sure you have read many theories on here and we all know there are all kinds of bones thrown at us each week. But we have to step back and ask a very important question. Who is the smartest person on the show? Who knows the most about Red John? Well Patrick of course! Bruno especially this season is throwing our eyes in so many different directions and we are so caught on certain things or certain people. Are we really observing the most important piece of the puzzle? JANE? What is Jane Doing? What can we draw from his actions and words? Are we so busy chasing pigeons or whistlers and guys that fit the exact descriptions or are we paying attention to the one who KNOWS the MOST?
After thinking on this I think there could possibly be more to Sheriff. For one again Jane has payed the most amount of attention to Sheriff. Think if all the other suspects and how creepy Bruno had made some of theyre appearences yet Jane almost looks past them. He skips over Partridge , he doesnt dwell on Bertram or Reede but who goes out of his way to get himself in direct contact with SHERIFF and to watch and observe him work.
Upon this we also saw some very key things about the sheriff. For one we learned he has a very keen and gifted investigated instince like JANE when observing a victim. Ahhh more than meets the eye. And then at first we have always gotten the idea the Sheriff did not care for Jane oh but the ENDING we see a different side of SHeriff than ever before. So we are tossed around and we think oh it cant be him he acts afraid of heights , but then hes on the roof . WAIT a minute. Well this could perhaps show he has the ability the DECIEVE. So I am not fully saying Sheriff is REd JOhn but I find him most interesting lately and he can be very easy to skip over.
Also hes a very skilled hunter..... RJ left a pigs head in one of the episodes....
So whether or not my hunches are right. I encourage everyone pay attention to JANE the smartest and closets man to finding the real RJ. Can most of these other trails just be magican assistants with the purpose to leading us off into rabbit trails. Whats Janes paying attention to?