Who is Red John?

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Thomas McAllister
Thomas McAllister
Reede Smith
Reede Smith
Ray Haffner
Ray Haffner
Gale Bertram
Gale Bertram
Brett Partridge
Brett Partridge
Bret Stiles
Bret Stiles
Bob Kirkland
Bob Kirkland

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Theory #1351 • By toyk
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There is this episode named "his thoughts were red thoughts" in season 4. In this episode, I catched the moment where Bret Stiles' new lawyer came into the interrogation room. Lawyer was kind of patronizing to Bret Stiles. Bret Stiles says "we should tell them everything".

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Theory #1350 • By jobo
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I say that "red john" isnt just one person, they are a group of murders that have evolved overtime, thats why when jane found the face on the barn the timeling didnt add up.

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Theory #1347 • By VladaS
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He is the red john becouse he has the same voice like red john.. that's all.. and i am shure of it 100%

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Theory #1272 • By redjohnny11111111111
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I believe it is Jason Cooper because it is a unpredictable person. He also called stiles out of the country and made things suspicious.

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Before I say my theory, I have to say couple of things.

There are many scenes where you can see huge sadness in
Patrick Jane’s eyes when he thinks about his family’s death (example when
Kristina says to him that his daughter didn’t feel pain because she was
asleep). Also, in pilot, when he approaches room in which his wife and daughter
are killed, you can see in his face transformation from his classic smile to
surprise when he sees the note on the door, then to fear when he opens that
door. Why the hell would producers insert those scenes if PJ is the killer of
his own family? Don’t tell me it’s red herring or something it would be just
stupid.

As for ‘He is mar’, it is not written ‘He is Mar’, it is
small m, not capital, so not a name. We definitely know it’s mar not man from
the script. I don’t think Jared Renfrew knew who exactly Red John is. If he
did, why would he bother writing He is.. when he could just write a name. Also,
he didn’t actually said that he knows who he is, he just said ‘I have dynamite
information about Red John’. So, maybe he just knows something that could lead
to him, but not specifically who he is. So, he tried in his dying moments to
write a sentence that could mean something. For example ‘He is married
to...(some person)...’, that person then could lead to RJ. I think he wanted to
write ‘He is marionette’ but i will explain that later.

I think RJ can’t be person that appeared in only one episode
because people who didn’t watch that episode wouldn’t remember him. Producers
are just playing with us with clues like Ardiles==Red sails and Elliston,
Ella’s dinner... just to ask ourselves ‘Is it him? Is it him?’ like Bruno
Heller said. They are also inserting carracters whose names start with Man and
Mar, just to toy with us.

Also, you can forget about CBI Ron and red sweater guy being
RJ because they are not even real actors they are just stunts.

As for Kristina Frye, there is definitely something wrong
with her last appearance. I personally don’t think it is possible to be like a
herb, and in the same time to be a channel to dead souls. So she is probably
faking. Actually my theory is that she is Red John. She is after PJ and Bret
Stiles most powerfull and can have huge influence on people. She likes Patrick,
she is interested in him sexually, like Red John definitely is (sending Lorelei
to examine PJ’s intimate regions). She has a disciple who calles himself Roy
Tagliaferro, and he is the one for whom everybody thinks is RJ, but he is just
marionette (He is mar) of Kristina Frye. He is part of Visualise, and that’s
why Bret Stiles knows about him and has info about missing KF.  

That is my main theory about RJ but I also have little
extension to it. There were many theories that suggested that RJ is someone
from PJ’s past. Remember the little dying girl from flashback scenes with young
PJ. She is called Celia in the script, but I don’t think that matters. I think
that she is Kristina Frye. The girl obviously liked young Patrick and that
likeness (actually ‘form of love’ as Bret Stiles puts it) is only thing
stopping RJ from killing Patrick. Also you have story about that frase ‘Roll
tide’.

As a final thing I have to express my dissapoitment in
quantity of clues producers are giving to us about RJ. I will be happy if the
show is not cancelled before we find out who he is. Also, the facts that
producers put in the show are not perfect. For example, in one episode PJ asks
Rigsby if he put milk in his tea, and in the other PJ says he is lactosse
intollerant. There are others but I think I wrote enough for today :)

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Theory #1345 • By sewki
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R J K

Red John

Robert Kirkland

Red is a nickname for Robert :|


Middle name for RK ?  Is there a J?

Who else has these initials?


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Theory #1342 • By Cristian_Lucaci
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I know this theory would be unpleasent for the general persepctive but still I think it should be taken in consideration.

What if... Red John is not a person! but a group of persons, most likely former or current members of Visualize. A group of persons with a particular leader or such. So whenever an activity linked in anyway to 'Red John' occurs, this group plans it ahead and makes it happen. Maybe that's why 'Red John' has so many 'accomplices'. So this 'Roy Tagliaferro' might be the leader of this group, and who else is represented as leader to a group better than Bret Stiles. Although it's not likely for a young woman like Rosalind Harker to fall in love with an old man like Bret Stiles, but still he could be the master of this group and call the shots. As far as we know Lorelei Martins, Craig O'Laughlin, Timothy Carter, Todd Johnson, Rebecca, Ron Deutsch, Orville Tanner and Sherrif Hardy we're all accomplices and so, most likely, members of this group.

So here it is! let me know what you think. :D

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