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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Great show tonight! The list is interesting! I'm not completely up on some of the suspects so I'll have my summer reading cut of for me! I'm glad we now can get off the PJ thoeries and GVP theories (tho I'm sure some will still try!)
The list is law-enforcement based. We know about Haffner and visualize, so that is how I 'm sure they are all connected. Some way that organzation is involved but that doesn't mean it's Stiles. We know Kirkland is up to something but he was taking "orders/cues" from Bretram in that one episode. Well, I guess Bertram would have juricstiction over all law enforcement personelle. Doesn't matter, point is we know it's an inside job, visualize teachings applied to get the law enforcement shield so RJ can operate with impunity. And just because we have a list doesn't mean that's the only RJ suspects. Jane said, these were the only people that had access to the crime scenes. So they can all still be puppets to RJ! It's also names of people he met after his wife died. We still don't know why RJ was killing these folks before he decided to pick on Jane. We also have time line issues still unresolved. 1) LM told PJ about the handshake, before he shook RK's hand. So why is he on the list? Smart guy like Jane would have discounted him right away. Until he RK killed the guy in the hospital And 2) LM was killed before RK stole the information board, so RK being able to set up the video before hand doesn't fly. Sure it's tv but that's how the timeline was presented. BH has been pretty honest with us so I'll trust him. So how is RJ that good?!? It's still anybodies guess and we still have a Long way to go!! Season six is already green lighted and ratings were good enuff that unless SB or RT get real life better offers we will get a 7th also. Work hard in the off season to brush up on the names&connections!! Have a great summer everybody, see you next fall !

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I believe that Patrick Jane is smarter than Red John. The
fact that Jane left the toothpick in the door provides evidence that he knew
someone would break into his loft and discover the list. First, why would
someone with a memory like Jane’s need to keep a picture of his suspects? I
believe that he wanted Red John to feel a false sense of security, as his name
was not on the list. However, at the end of this year’s season finally, Red
John led Jane to a disc that revealed Jane’s 7 suspects and which drew outrage
from Red John, or did it. If Red John wasn’t outraged by the list, wouldn’t
Jane then suspect that he wasn’t one of the seven. Therefore, Red John was trying
to play Jane hoping that he would remain dedicated to his list of seven. Unfortunately,
I believe the list was fake and Red John, not knowing this, inadvertently revealed
that he was not one of the seven. I believe that there is an eighth suspect or
a small list of other suspects that Jane keeps in the safest place he knows,
his own mind. 

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That guy who was incharge of that daycare was in the hospital who knew Red Jorn. Bob kirkland told him "Look at me closely, do you know who I am?" so clearly Bob kirkland has a PERSONAL connection with Red John.  Maybe Bob Kirkland is Red John with plastic Surgery and the guy in the hospital bed didnt know red john had plastic surgery so when kirkland said look at me closely he wanted to make sure he's unrecognizable as Red John. Then he killed him to shut him up.

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I'm just saying that if RJ has such great control over people, he or she could "make" the accomplice say anything about him. Lie about gender. Lie about height. Lie about it even being Patrick Jane.
Heck, it could even be Lisbon.

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I don't have a theory yet, just a question.  If Kirkland is RJ, and RJ knew the seven suspects before Kirkland broke into Jane's office, why would he bother breaking in?

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Let me start by saying this:

1) If it's Sheriff McAllister, I'd be dissapointed. We haven't seen him since s1 e01 - as much as he was a hardcore creep to Van Pelt... no. 

2) If it's Reed Smith...wait...who's Reed Smith?

HOWEVER, I could honestly see the rest of them (with, or without Partridge) being connected. Stiles runs visualize, of which Ray Haffner is a member. Kirkland and Bertram have a connection through the promise between Kirkland and Minelli to stay in touch about the case. They're all high-rank individuals, in one way or another.

Not sure about Partridge. He's no mastermind - he may be another tool, though.

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WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT RED JOHN SO FAR:

Red John is most likely a man. He appears to be a Caucasian, and is a white person as described by HaleyRed John has an average height: Rosalind described him as "just under 6 feet tall"Red John has short straight hair (as described by Rosalind Harker)Red John either has or puts on an odd, high pitched and soft voiceRed John should be older than 30 years (since his murders date back to the 90's). He used to work in the circus, he has mind reading tricks (like Jane) and is very clever. He is also cocky (but may not show it). He is controlling (he got upset that Jane broke the rules thus he "changed" the rules thus episode name Red Johns Rules). ( The guy who didnt get the child in Red Johns rules said that maybe Red John has powers like him and his family and its non fake, he could know Red John or Red John could be in his family).

He has gone by the alias "Roy Tagliaferro," the name by which Harker knows him. This name may be related to his work with iron, as Virgil Minelli first realizes "Tagliaferro" means "cut iron" (edited 25. april2013 Taglio is cutting and ferro is instrument - seems more like that then cut iron) in Italian. He has also used the pseudonym "DR. JOE N.H." (an anagram of Red John) or "Doctor Joe in New Hampshire" when accessing the CBI secure network.He appears to be caucasian. This from the appearance of his bare hands (drinking tea in the season 1 episode "Red John's Footsteps") which appear to be that of a Caucasian male.He is literate in the poetry of William Blake (Red John quoted one line from the poem The Tyger to Jane at the end of season 2. This same line was spoken by another Red John associate, Todd Johnson, directly to Jane shortly before Johnson died.)He works occasionally with others. His first known accomplice was named Orville Tanner, though Tanner died in prison. Tanner's son, Dumar, appears in the episode "Red John's Footsteps" as another friend of Red John. Other accomplices of Red John have been revealed as the series has progressed, including some inside the CBI itself (Sam Bosco's secretary Rebecca in the episode "The Scarlett Letter"), others outside the CBI who admire him and perform their own murders, such as Todd Johnson (who appears in the episode "Red Moon"), some whose inside information may have provided Red John with detailed data on Jane and his CBI team (such as Craig O'Laughlin who is revealed to be a Red John operative in Strawberries and Cream Part 2), and still others who have been "sent" to speak with Jane but who presumably are not yet murderers themselves (such as Lorelei Martins in "The Crimson Hat".) Each of these "disciples" as Jane calls them ("Red John doesn't have friends. He has tools.") has seemed to exhibit fierce, near complete loyalty to Red John.He may have extensive knowledge of computers, or may employ a colleague with such knowledge to assist him, as he has on several occasions accessed (either through hacking or the assistance of an insider) what Agent Grace Van Pelt refers to as the "CBI secure network" (the first time this occurred was in the season 1 episode "Red John's Friends").In his criminal history, Red John's initial way of killing was to use a handheld linoleum cutter. A "textbook Red John" murder (according to Agent Kimball Cho in the series Pilot), consisted, at that time, of the use of a stun gun to subdue the victim, followed by "binding with tight black plastic ligatures, frenzied cutting and stabbing assault of the torso, and subsequent abuse of the viscera." If his victim is sleeping, Red John is believed to wake them to see the look of fear. Though this was Red John's early style of murder, in subsequent seasons he has killed by other means, including the use of poison and, in at least one instance, a handgun. 

I hope this helps some of you build upon your theories!

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