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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I don't think that its possible to spin this out for much longer without losing the audience so I think the identity of rj will be revealed by the end of this series. However, as there will be another series there will have to be a twist that stops the team arresting him. We know that rj has people in all areas of government so I think that they will find some way of discrediting the team. In which case they will have to go rogue in order to catch rj and clear their names in the next series (this is what I hope will happen anyway as they all have to play by jane's rules). 
As for rj. We know that from the red barn episode that jr started as a disciple of stiles. So rj's organization is likely to be a splinter of visualize, using the same mental tricks and discipline but with dedicated to killing. Such an organization is likely to be very useful to organizations such as homeland/CIA etc and so could be providing training or operatives for them. Whereby the rj killings could be the final part of the training. This would be supported by the exchange between kirkland and Bertram in I think it was 'there will be blood' where kirkland asked can we trust her. And Bertram answered I wouldn't trust anyone with this.
I also want to know what's the deal with Laroche. He is definitely hiding something. And what was in his safe anyway? We never did find out. I can so easily see him as rj as he is clearly intelligent enough and have similar interests. He's easily a match for pj. And his lack of personality could easily be a cover to hide a more vibrant personality. But somehow I doubt it. I definitely believe we haven't seem the last of him.

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Now, what everyone seems to forget when disapproving the theory that Jane could be Red John is that he does not have to be Red John all the time.
Most arguments used to disapprove this theory are that they cannot be at 2 places at once.
Now, what we have witnessed throughout the past 5 seasons is that RJ NEVER does ANYTHING. he has people doing it for him!
Now if I was Jane/RJ and I wanted to keep this a secret i would certainly too make it seem like i as jane was at one place while RJ were at another, to rule this theory out. keep in mind that Jane is one of the smartest people on this show - he is very intuitive, and he is always one step ahead. why wouldnt he be one step ahead as RJ too?
He definitely cant be ruled out - i thought so when lorelai said that she would find RJ (she said this to jane) but then i realised that up until then it has never been the real RJ it has always been someone in place of him. maybe the person lorelai thought was RJ was just another stand-in. 
remember that if it really is Jane you would have no way of being sure - he's that good.

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Theory #2257 • By Red-John7
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Let's play a game. Guess who you think the se7en suspects of possibly being me are by the season 5 finale. Closest one gets a cookie.

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My guess of who Jane will suspect are:
1. Brett partidge
2. Ray heffner
3. Ellis mars
4. Walter mashburn
5. Teresa Lisbon
6. Everybody high up in visualize
7. Amos van pelt

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Has anybody else noticed that in the last episode aired, s6 ep 19, Kirkland is drinking a bloody mary, the same drink Patrick repeatedly ordered in the restaurant in s4 ep 23 on the anniversary of RJ killing his family?

Love to hear your theories about the significance of this.

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https://twitter.com/lauradenem/status/325954087717842944/photo/1

Jane and Kirkland Coctail .  I
nteresting...

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Who is Red John???That makes me crazy, i read a lot about The Mentalist and Red John and i  have some ideas but none makes me feel i'm right. Is it a man from "Jane's past in carnival", a CBI/"security" agent, someone we don't know yet?…I really don't know but i have some new clues to help us.
That clues are words from the video "Seven suspects" from CBS website (http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_mentalist/red-john/) extract in very slow motion.

At 1sec of the video : RED red / RED JOHN h / NOTORIOUS / DREAD / COLD / SERIAL KILLER

At 2min 2sec : ARTIST red / SERIAL KILLER / NOTORIOUS / MURDER / UNKOWN / TEACUP / CLOAKED / HANDSHAKE

At 2min8sec : COLD red / SERIAL KILLER / NOTORIOUS / MURDER / UNKOWN / TEACUP / CLOAKED / HANDSHAKE / SHADOWS / STRAWBERRIES / SERIAL KILLER

At 2min17sec : HANDSHAKE red / SHOWMAN red / GENIUS jh / COLD h / LEFT / RIGHT / STRAWBERRIES / SCENT / DREAD / SHOWMAN / SIGNS / VISUALIZE / SERIAL KILLER / NOTORIOUS / MURDER / UNKOWN / TEACUP / CLOAKED / EVIL / HANDSHAKE / SHADOWS

Letters in small letter are in red in the video.

Last things:
- Do you know a character whom first letters name are J.H.?
- I think that Bret Stiles is the key to find who is Red John, i don't understand why Patrick Jane doesn't "use" him... Before i was thinking he was afraid Red John kills Bret and avoids him to help but the story with Lorelei shows me Patrick don't care to lose somebody in his quest to find Red John except for Lisbon maybe.

Sorry for my poor English.

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i just noticed that in the finale episode in season 2 (23-2) (min 39)

when red john shot the boy and the girl, u can see that red john was holding the gun by his right hand 

so he is not lefty 

but later in another season he was holding the cup of tea by his left hand 

its weird right ? there are two people involved not one as we expected and one of them is lefty 

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