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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Till the whole Timothy Carter death thing it was Timothy who was RJ, but later i think PJ is continuing those murders as a person with  mental disorder.i think that after this with TC, PJ sort of snaped, poped like a popcorn..with faces changing from RJ to PJ..i mean who could ever know things that only Jane knows...and the whole hand shaking thing..i believe its maybe not the physical hank shake...but maybe the psychical hand shake between the PJ personality and RJ personality..

Here are some things i would like to point out : 

...in the season 4 where Jane is talking to Lorelei she says why did they never became friends when they are so alike...i did not see anyone soo damm alike to Jane in the episodes

...and the face RJ drawns with blood is just like Janes face...

...why there were no RJ killings while PJ was in Las Vegas for 6 months...

...how the hell did Lorelei found him in Las Vegas?

....why was exactly the CBI dude Luther Wainwright the one who got caught by RJ...if i remember he and PJ were insulting each other the episode before...and RJ does not like to be insultet in any way..so LW ended up dead...why it was not hmmm...Lisbon? Because PJ likes her and think as a friend/crush

...and now you will ask me what are the other suspects doing in the series...and i wil tell you that they are nothing but distractions...just to keep us away from Jane in the first place....and on the other hand doing misunderstandings with PJ s mind...like for example the girl in the graveyard was sent from a disciple just to mindfuck PJ and the person with the baseball hat could be any of them...

....in the series we can see that PJ is very good at faking things...from his mental acts to his behaviour...like when he was in a verbal fight with Luther, even Lisbon believed all of that but it was just an act....

...somehow RJ is always one step ahead of PJ...wich is impossible...he knows his every move, his every tought and his every trick...

....in my opinion this all is just to turn PJ a RJ himself at the end and to make him crazy

...when PJ lost his memory he was a complete different person....

...nobody did not know about the meeting between Gale Bertram and PJ....

...how did RJ knew that PJ is going to the graveyard just when he saw the happy anniversary note on his car...PJ when arrived there was not looking around for RJ, but he was looking in the graves, and why he hipnotized the girl and said to Lisbon RJ could kill her...he could instead leave her go and follow her...

...also there is a big black hole in the series when James Panzer was killed by RJ...it was a great moment for PJ to follow Panzer privately just to get in trouble with RJ as he always did before...but this time he didnt....

...why is PJ keeping all the sudden everybody away from RJ...ok, he says that if anybody talks about RJ ends up dead...but i think there is something behind that....i think that PJ usually wouldnt care that much about others and that he would try to set a bait for RJ in that way....

....why didnt RJ take for example Van Pelt, or Cho, or Rigsby in the limo but exactly Luther wich PJ didnt like so much...and why is the group VP,Cho, Rigsby and Lisbon safe for 5 seasons now...

...why did RJ wanted to "have fun" with Darcy instead for example Lisbon wich is also helping to solve the RJ case with PJ...

...how come that Christina Frye is alive but was in contact with RJ....he hipnotized her wich is the thing Patrick does...and PJ does not kill her as RJ because he liked her..

....the voice in the limo sounds like PJ...

...."does anyone know who you are?"...charlotte asks PJ while halucinating...

....i am just not sure if PJ is RJ frome the beginning or it is half Timothy and half Jane...

...i think that when RJ was thinking it was time for him to approach was the time in the mall..because he knew he has done his job but wanted jane to continue it...so jane with the mental disorder did so...but when the Jane persona was more powerfull in his head than the RJ persona then the disciples and the clues where there to mess up janes head again...

...and whats with the happy memory thingy only Pj knew ;)

.. Also Red John guessed all the suspects correct which is impossible since how would he know which people did Jane shake hands with.

...Its feels like Jane is Red John. Whether its a case of multiple personality disorder perhaps..

....i really love PJ as a character and would not like an ending where Lisbon has to shoot him or something like that :( 

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Reed can mean red, also we know that Roy means red.

Tagliaferro means iron cutter or iron worker, and smith refers to people who are blacksmiths. A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut.

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Don't think GVP is RJ but think she will lead us to him somehow.  Heller said "you will see the white whale" [for last season, meaning the killer will be out there] -- the "white whale" a reference to killer whale Moby Dick.  I realized that besides King Arthur references in the character names, there are Moby Dick themes, as well, in The Mentalist.  In MD, Ishmael, an outcast orphan [from Bible, too] joins Captain Ahab [who lost his leg to the "white whale killer"] on his ship out on the Pacific to find Moby Dick.  It's about an obsessive search for a killer in a sea of unknown -- and how revenge can destroy you [as Captain Ahab and his crew, but for Ishmael, go down trying to take the killer whale down].  Moby Dick is symbolic of fighting forces that are often beyond our control.  There's also a character, Elijah, in MD [and also from Bible, meaning Prophet] who tells Ishmael he mustn't have soul to go on this journey, and likens a soul to being a "FIFTH WHEEL ON A WAGON."  What's so interesting about all this is that there are many character names relating to: the SEA, WATER, CLIFF, ROCK, RIDGE, BOATS and WAGON MAKERS & REPAIRERS.  Is Van Pelt the "5th wheel" on the CBI team?  Did Ellis Mars [meaning Elijah: Prophet/War, Blood Red] predict something overlooked?  Maybe he will come back?  Interestingly, an anagram for Patrick Jane is "Captain Jerk" and the longest word found in Van Pelt's name is "parentage" -- her father is mentioned, and supposedly known by RJ associate and killer Craig O'Laughlin [whose name means Rocky Water/Lake] so I think Grace's father may become known or revealed this season, considering Van Pelt means "curer of animal hides," like Tanner [Orville & DuMAR Tanner], also RJ associates.  Van Pelt's family obviously has red hair somewhere down the line; her sister committed suicide and Jane says she's repressing a terrible memory.  She has a psychic aunt named Yolanda [which means Violet] -- there are just too many loose ends with VP, these all have to lead somewhere.  Now, I'm thinking Jane's Suspect List may have been his ploy to throw off "Roy" LOL and that it's been Van Pelt all along who is going to lead us to RJ [not that she knows it].

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Theory #4595 • By JMfan
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I think that Red John is somehow related to Van Pelt.
 My guess is that Red John is Van Pelts brother. Van Pelt has never said that she has no siblings so it's possible and Van Pelt doesn't really like to talk about her family. I think her brother did something bad (to her or someone else) and she doesn't want to think about him anymore. If my theory is true Red John must be someone who Van Pelt has just heard mentioned and never actually seen or who she has seen only a glipse of so she couldn't reconise him. He has brobably changed his name so he couldn't be so easilly reconised.
 In the episode 2/10, Throwing Fire, Van Pelt tells Rigsby she has no sister but at the same time she looks a little awkward like she was uncomfortable with the subject. There is definately something about her family that she doesn't want to talk about. I'm not sure if Van Pelt knows or suspects this somebody she knows (who ever it is) to be Red John, but I just think that Red John is somehow connected to Van Pelt weather she knows it or not.
 And Van Pelt has red hair and red is always a bad thing in Mentalist :D

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Sorry, after reading my rant I forgot to mention that I believe kirklands mother died or killed by him then he went with his father brett stiles to visualize or maybe stiles killed the mother. anyway please just look at the suspect picture of Kirkland and please tell me it doesn't look like the painted face!!!!  Brett Stiles is trying to protect his son, but like most parents you can only do so much and I finally believe that Stiles will kill his son, not jane.  I think he will be there at the end just when Kirkland is going to kill either or both jane and Lisbon and brett discusses the trial and tribulations of Kirklands wrong doings based on his mothers death and then just before he kills them, stiles kills Kirkland.  show over, everyone happy :)

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Don't know if he's RJ or related to RJ but I do think he'll be back: ELLIS (meaning PROPHET) MARS (WAR/BLOOD RED).

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Hi Guys and Girls, or should I just say fellow conspiracy theorists.

I love reading all the theories because I think bits and pieces of them lead right to the killer.
I think Brett Stiles has a part in this, and I believe the theory that he is the father of RJ.  I think Bret Partridge will be a most important part of the ending but not to what some think.  Ok, this is my theory based on what I have watched and what I have read from some very astute members of this blog, I feel that RJ is Kirkland for various reasons, one, being obvious is a great way of hiding the truth.  What I mean is most shows especially this one lead you to chase the least plausible suspect, hence Bret Partridge.  Kirkland killed Jason Lennon without asking him the most important question of all "who is RJ"?  Why? Also, Kirkland's team is the only ones present at the Lorilie Martins murder and Jane never checks the body and Partridge isn't at the scene either, don't you find that suspicious? Plus Martins eye isn't swollen or her arm isn't bandaged and there isn't even a sign that she was shot.  Maybe just a pas faux?  Another thing is Jane never locked his little hideout and the show specifically keyed on the lock as Jane left.  The voice you hear I believe is Bret Partridge because I feel he is a RJ puppet and if you listen to the voice close enough on the season 6 promo it is definitely his but I think what will happen is that RJ has Lisbon and makes Partridge call Jane, then kills partridge.  I suspect RJ either tricked Sofie Miller or she somehow is involved in spilling the beans on Janes happy memory, or maybe RJ just broke in and stole her notes.  Kirkland is creepy and if you look at him in the scenes his face closely resembles the happy face RJ paints.  Kirkland is the right age and very clever and Jane did set him up when he broke in and stole the work Jane did on his wall.   The only thing left that ties everything together would be that Lorilie isn't dead.  I don't believe RJ is someone that reads minds but I do believe that he traveled with the carnival during the time with the Janes because when he spoke to Lisbon he stated he travelled with his father first then his mother and he likes to think he was born in America, which would open the theory to his association with Patrick somehow and maybe that's when he saw the happy memory. Partridge is a "red herring" Kirkland has a friend in the FBI we found that out in Red Dawn, Partridge doesn't, at least as far as we know.  BTW, when Lorilie stated that he couldn't believe that Jane and RJ didn't become friends the minute they met, made me think, who could be friends with Partridge?  Not me!  One last thought is when Jane downsized his list he excluded people that he shook hands with but never saw again, why wasn't the sheriff excluded?  puzzling!  He is definitely scratched, the fbi agent he is just a schmuck, Bertram is I think considered a friend or ally to jane along with stiles,although I do believe stiles hypnotizes people for RJ like cristina frye and maybe vanpelt and possibly the blind chick. haffner is another follower not a leader so scratch him too.  Leaves only Kirkland and Stiles father and son!!! 

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