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 #2118 • By lizbunzhot
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1. PJ is RJ or has an ego that wants to merge with him. RJ killed PJ family to lead him into despair seeking revenge which will bring out his dark side making it easier to merge.
2. RJ has followers that protect him and leave PJ hints that he's RJ. Bp saving Jane and saying the tiger tiger poem is one example. Also the man at the RJ hideout watching on the monitor was there to protect pj/RJ to ensure he's safe. PJ was in his RJ mode and checked the door to make sure it was locked so he wouldn't get caught. The guy at the blind ladies house was an enforcer ensuring the she called the CBI about the morgue attendant that way they would see RJ killed while they were with PJ and wouldn't blow his cover. She also acted as if she didn't know PJ to ensure this as well.
3. PJ/RJ "killed" KF because she talked to his wife and he didn't want it getting out he killed his family. This would explain why his wife wasn't in the hallucination after PJ drunk the tea because she would know he killed her but his daughter was asleep so she was clueless thus safe in PJ's subconscious.

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Theory #2112 • By Zander
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Imagine that we see patrick wake up one day in the mental institution that we are told he was in for a year after his wife and child were murdered, and it was all in his mind. he was just some whack job that they found, he had no name and they called him john doe. the walls in his room were painted red, therefore his subcontious made up the name red john in his dream. there never was a red john, he never had a wife and kids, he was just a loony.

all be it, extremely unlikely but imagine? 

i think most fans would be so annoyed, i would be... would you?

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Theory #2111 • By ROJO_JUAN13
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Just thought about the timeline at the farm. It was 25 years ago and grace seems to be in her early 30's of at least the actress is about 30. The guy at the farm mentioned a kid and Jane thought he meant 20 -25 but what if the kid was actually 5-6. The two guys could've tried to rape her or her sister so she and someone there killed them. Plus it would fit that RJ had accomplices and helpers early in his/her career which would possibly mean gvp needed it where she was young and weaker. Her sister might have been killed by those two guys or raped then killed herself later in life due to trauma.

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It's hard to speculate at this point but it's definitely not going to be one of the usual suspects and it's easy to rule out most of them already:

- All the dead people can be ruled out immediately.
- Hightower is definitely not RJ, RJ would not run away or be framed anyhow...
- Dr. Steiner is in prison. RJ is not.
- Brenda Shettrick - definitely not, because Red John would never play Volker's informant or anything...
- Rosalind Harker is definitely not RJ because she is convincingly blind. She might be more involved in RJ's business but she is not RJ.
- you can also exclude anyone who is too young to be Red John. Van Pelt, Cho and Rigsby were too young in 1988 when Red John was already somehow connected to Visualize and spent time on that firm. That would probably also exclude Ardilles.
- Minelli is a good guy. LaRoche is definitely not him. Mashburn is fun but he is not nearly sneaky enough to pull it off. Besides, he's too much of a celebrity.

The only couple of people that COULD in fact be Red John from the bunch we've already seen quite a few times are:
- Brett Partridge - he is suspicious  but in my opinion too much of a wuss. I think he likes crimescenes and obscenities but I don't think he could be it.
- Gale Bertram - I found his collaboration with Mr. Homeland Security a bit suspicious, plus I think he was once recited a poem by William Blake to CBI people.
- Bret Stiles - stiles could hypothetically be Red John but it's unlikely.

- Oh and I don't think that's necessary to mention but Jane is not Red John. I mean even if his "search" for RJ was an attempt to hide in plain sight and stuff, his quest to find Red John would be taking it a little too far...
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I think Robert Kirkland was
Miranda Martins' s boyfriend (Lorelei 's sister), that 's why he asked Lennon
if he recognized him. After knowing Lennon was involved in Miranda 's murder,
he killed Lennon for revenge, and didn’t asked who Red John was because it was
useless.
And that's why Kirkland is behind
Patrick's footsteps, he has not the intelligence of Patrick, Kirkland will wait for Patrick to catch
Red John because HE want s to kill him first.

 

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Hi People.
I think that nobody knows who RedJohn is. beside the writers.
But i was thinking about something else. What if Somebody of the CBI is feeding RedJohn with inforamtions without knowing that he/she is giving Inforamtions to Him.

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