I have known Bob Kirkland to be Red John for a long time. Fine, I
shouldn't say I "know" because it's just my theory, but I do know! Why?
Because Kirkland has been around for a long time. He is in homeland
security and has a lot of power. The main reason I suspect him, however,
is because once he passed by Jane in the CBI office, and Jane turned
and look at him and said, have we met? And Kirkland said no. And that
was it. Now, that scene has no point to it whatsoever to that episode or
later. That's when I first realized that Kirkland had to be Red John. This is long before Jane came up with his list.
Furthermore,
the other five suspects are not right. Bertram the CBI isn't that
smart; he was once suspected as a link to Red John during the time when
Jane shot the fake Red John, and Bertram didn't have a clue. Jane pulled
the wool over Ray Haffner without sweating at all. Reede Smith is just a
stupid FBI guy. McAllister is just a policeman with no significance; we
hardly ever see him, and you can be sure that we do see Red John off
and on in the episode.
Bret Stiles is the mostly likely next
suspect because he has lots of power too, but he can't be it because he
already has a big following. Like Jane says once, Bret couldn't hurt a
fly. (When he does, he doesn't do it himself, certainly.) He is just not the hands-on killer that Red John is.
Therefore, it makes total sense that Bob Kirkland is it. He is also handsome, meaning that he can easy sucker women into doing his bidding.
Therefore, I know it's Kirkland.
