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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Some other theorists have already expressed some aspects of my current theory. I think that Patrick Jane made the video of Lorelei reading the list of the seven suspects, with Lorelei's cooperation, sometime shortly after she had been shot in her arm.


So obviously Jane created the list of seven names, and he wanted only Lisbon to see the video and know the seven. That is why he immediately destroyed the disk. I'm not really sure that Lorelei is really dead, it could have been a setup by Jane so that Red John will think she is no longer a threat to him because he killed her sister. The problem with this, of course, is that RJ would know that he did not kill Lorelei.


Anyway, Jane will be ahead of Red John, and if he later finds out that RJ knows the list of 7, he will also know that Lisbon is connected to RJ, who will probably immediately tell Lisbon that he did not make the video with Lorelei, and Jane will be able to read Lisbon. 

I also think that Rosalin Harker may have lied about the physical and vocal description of RJ, as RJ may have told her to mislead the CBI.

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I wonder...
Lorelei mentioned that PJ and RJ are a lot alike, that they could have been friends.  The only person with whom PJ seems to have a "friendly" relationship with is Stiles. 
Re-watch their scenes together, it's like a tit-for-tat conversation, back-and-forth witty comments. 
Stiles may not fit the clue profiles we've heard from Rosalind et al. , but as we've seen over the seasons, RJ is many.  That ability to bring so many into his circle, drink the perverbial kool-aid, and to have them do his bidding....

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I want to follow up on my other posting that Haffner is Red John.  I cant stand this fool.  He is such a sneaky slime bag.  He was just faking being fooled by Jane.  He just sat there all smug during his lecture from Bertram, probably laughing inside at the scam he was pulling.  I also think Haffner is banging Lisbon.  I mean how many times has she gotten laid in 5 seasons?  Once?  He created this whole story about her having great investigative prowess and putting that to use in his PI firm.  The only reason Lisbon solves any cases is because of Jane.  F'ng Haffner is so sleazy.  Not that we all havent conned women into bed but Haffner is just a dirtball.  My hate for his character grows by the minute.  I hate the network for making me wait until Sept. to finally see what I already know.  I am guessing Haffner(REd John) will start to kill off the other members of Janes list one by one.  Haffner obviously has the physical goods to kill at will un-challenged. The bad news is I will have to spend several months waiting for Haffner to be jailed or killed.  I am guessing he will just escape and leave the country.  I FUCKING HATE HAFFNER!

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Hey guys!

Since it's been 5 seasons already I think it's fair for you to know who Red John really is, no BS, no nothing. I have a friend who works at the show and is in a very good position and he told me Kirkland is the one.
Sorry if that disappointed any of you, but I think it's an ok suspect, don't you?

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I'm not sure who it is, but assume I will be disappointed.  I wonder if it is possible that Jane already knows who Red John already is. Jane always knows who the murderer is way before anyone else (most of the time at the beginning of each episode he already knows).  Anyway, it is possible that Jane just wants RJ to feel comfortable so he can make a move that will hurt RJ to the same degree that Jane himself was hurt.  In the case of RJ, I think the way he could be hurt the most would be to destroy his reputation and embarrass him beyond any repair.  To humiliate "the great" RJ would be the ultimate revenge.

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Theory #3290 • By Hannacristina
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Jane's father!
he is the mentor of Jane!He taught him how to be a mentalist ...Only he is smarter than Janecase closed!where is the pizza with pineapple?

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hey everybody !  ..i can prove very easy that is a work by patrick and laureli martins...watch 5x16 there will be blood...somewhere in that episode laureli gets shot in the arm...later in the episode she confronts the guy that tells her that RJ killed her sister miranda...NOW notice her left arm she has a white bandage covering her wound....NOW watch the scene where she " is found dead " notice the bandage in her left arm is gone...judging by her facial expression at least to me  she doen't appear to be dead...if Rj somehow killed her wouln't there be some king of struggle or at the very least some kind of facial expression of pain or something....NOW look at the smiley face there's something odd about the face....it looks fake...for some odd reason they don't show the whole face NOW look at the left eye it doesn't look the same as in other Rj murders..the eyelid is supposed to look like a v upsidedown on the left eye.......NOW HERE'S THE GOOD ONE....look at the video in the season finale when laureli reveals the 7 suspects....LOOK at her left arm...the white bandage covering her wound she got at the 5x16 episode...THAT WAS 7 EPISODES AGO..therefore the video had to be shot after laureli killed the man that told her that RJ killed miranda and before she was found dead at the end of episode 5x16...which explains why patrick got out of there so quicky that way he would have to explain anything about the muerder scene espeacially to lisbon...MAKE YOU OWN CONCLUSION.for some reason i think patrick and laureli have a plan and teresa IS NOT IN ON IT...teresa has been very eager asking patrick about the list in a lot lot of episodes leading to the finale in one particular one even asking jane if she was on the list....what do you guys think?...i'm not acussing teresa.

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