Who is Red John?

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List of seven

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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Red
John can be Max Winter (Jack Coleman), also called sometimes "Winters", the widower of the episode 3×04
pushing Jane to shoot at the range, and exact revenge on RJ,
strengthening his purpose, and then gives him his gun with which he
avenged his wife Jenny, who was killed in 2001 (is released because his
son shot but the killer and rapist was already dead, killed by another,
perhaps, and the prosecutor can not proceed). Jane with that gun kills
Timothy Carter believing that it is Red John.
Winter is a businessman
and manager working in construction and industry (
agent real estate investment, as say him), it also brings him a
wedding ring as Jane, is rich and buy an old warehouse of evidence, and
the DNA is exchanged exonerate the murder of wife, Henry Dahl, to be
able to kill himself. Buy a gun from an arms dealer, then someone like
Manuel Montero, the friend and supplier of Todd Johnson, killed by
O’Laughlin to the museum on the orders of RJ to frame Hightower. Johnson
played with him in football, as O’Laughlin play football. O’Laughlin
knows Brother Steven Wench, the undercover FBI in Visualize, on which
Stiles knows everything. And Stiles also know a lot of RJ (and an adept
of the Wench’s group is Ron Deutsch to Visualize that steals the gun and
the cell Carter, then Wench can be a mole of RJ in FBI; or the mole is the FBI chief in person). Another person
involved in the construction companies as Winter, is Jack Tanner (1×03),
an
worker alcoholic, father of a victim, Christine, kills in a construction site. It ‘the
same surname as Orville Tanner and his son Dumar. RJ has some knowledge
of building as built himself a hut on the farm Tanner in Sparrow Peak,
registered as owned by Cutiron properties, fictional company of Roy
Tagliaferro, as RJ solutions. RJ initially hides the body of Carter Peak
in a construction site of a shopping center. In a shopping mall (the same?) Jane meet Carter.
RJ pay an airplane pilot who specializes in writing in
the sky for the smile of the scene of the murder of Emma Plaskett; Max
and his son, Jackson, build model airplanes operating in the
workshop-garage.
Max Winter recalls the name Max de Winter, the widower protagonist of “Rebecca”, the first wife of Hitchcock’s movie. The Las Vegas zone (with Debonar way, a word use by RJ) is a kind of construction site finished, foreclosed and abandoned, like the house where they find Kristina.RJ
calls the women victims’ his wives or brides, “writes Wagner (Jane is not
surprised, perhaps Linus, being expert modus operandi of Red John, he
used a term already used by RJ himself). Rebecca, the secretary of
Bosco, proclaimed himself the “girlfriend” or at least the lover (as
Rosalind) of RJ. Girlfriend living-dead wife, maybe so in the jargon of
RJ. Lorelei is also perhaps one of his lovers, as well as Jane.
PJ
causes RJ on TV. Jane and Winter are on TV by Karen Cross, the former
prosecutor who did condemn Dahl, and who has followed the case Winter
(which has already gone on television to confront the mother of Dahl,
pretending to be forgiven through faith in reconciliation, something
similar to the words of Carter and Lorelei) and Jane does the trick of
fire with the candles (which by the way also O’Laughlin says he can do,
maybe that’s how he set fire to Johnson).
Panzer
causes, instigated by Jane, RJ just to show Karen Cross. Maybe RJ is a
faithful viewer of this program, since it kills a few hours later, then
the transmission is supposed to have seen the same evening? If Max had
something to hide, maybe Dahl pushed himself to kill his wife for him.
Maybe his wife suspect of him (as Todd's girlfriend). And Max is one of the few people that Jane
has a hard time to “cold reading.” If we want, we can find many other links. And Bertram (remember the newspaper of Carter and other clues, as the poem?) can be the mole in CBI. Or is CBI Ron?
Bertram go to prosecutor's office to drop the charges against Winter.
The RJ plan is manipule PJ, and is start with the "Tyger Tyger", goes on with Johnson case (the cop's murders is maybe only a bait to attract CBI) and Carter: the gun of Max is important in this "big picture", for transform Jane in a RJ's follower.
Then, the message He is Mar; could be
He is Max, or He is manager: maybe written by the hooker, who didn'y know well english language, on the advice of renfrew, before dying both
.
Will be just coincidence or false clues? As Jane says: "There are no coincidences".








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Once when Grace meets the head of the Visualize cult in the prison cell, they share a strange chemistry. He seems to recognize her as being angry and teaches her some breathing excercises. Also, when Craig O laughlin is shot by Grace, he doesnt pull at the necklace he gave her. He is reaching out to her in love as he knows that she was Red John and he was willing to die for her.

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Here is My husbands theory, those of you who are die hard mentalist fans like my husband and I are, may have noticed that in almost every episode there is a glimpse of an extra named CBI Ron. He has several speaking parts, one liners and what not. Here is our question, Why would a show have a reoccurring extra through out all 4 seasons of The Mentalist. His presence is over powering and once you notice him you will always see glimpses. He is always around when the team is working, and knows the ins and outs of the CBI. The writers want you to suspect all of the obvious people, and maybe they do have a roll to play with Red John. But they are there to keep you eyes away from the real Red John, this CBI Ron! Just you wait and see!

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In the final episode from last season, the voice of Red John is Eric Stoltz.

I have perfect pitch and easily recognized him.

He hasn't been introduced as a character yet.

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By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 
In what distant deeps or skies 
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 
On what wings dare he aspire? 
What the hand dare sieze the fire? 
And what shoulder, & what art. 
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 
And when thy heart began to beat, 
What dread hand? & what dread feet? 
What the hammer? what the chain? 
In what furnace was thy brain? 
What the anvil? what dread grasp 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp? 
When the stars threw down their spears, 
And watered heaven with their tears, 
Did he smile his work to see? 
Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? 

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I think that Patrick could be Red John. At least that's what writers want us to think.

I really have just one thing to add to all existing Patrick=Red theories.

As many have pointed out one possibility is that Jane suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID). There are several dissociative disorders which are closely related to one another and if you have one there is great risk of having another. Patrick has already had an episode of dissociative amnesia/fugue in one episode so we know that he has a strong tendency to dissociate.

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Well,just finished season  4......I always had a hunch about bertram being RED JOHN specially after the poem incident where he quotes lines from the same poem i.e. William Blake's as Red John does....
Now,if you happen to watch the season finale of season 4 closely,you can't help noticing that Jane,Lisbon,Van Pelt,Rigsby and Cho are out of the question.
The final scene shows a white police cruiser speeding fast alongside Jane and Lisbon with a big bulky man at the wheels,which in my opinion,is Bertram.Zoom in and check it out.

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