Instead of picking a suspect that you think could potentaly be Red John what we need to do is elimanate the ones that cant be him  :)


1) Brett Stiles - Cant be - in 1988 Red John was a kid and was any where up to 30 in 1988 Brett Stiles (well his actor) would have been 43.
2) Brett Partridge - i cant dismiss him from being RJ but we will know by next episode if we see his body or not. NOTE his hight is also a good match for Roslands description
3) Robert (Bob) Kirkland - Yes we all know he killed a RJ acomplice he stole the fake list from Jane but my thoughts are that he is not RJ or an acomplice and is rather trying to find him himself as he is related to one of Red Johns victoms just like Jane plus he is a bit to short to be RJ
4) Sherrif Thomas Mcallister - Cant be - As in 1988 just like Stiles he was to old to be RJ he was 33 and woudint have been considered a kid.
5) Reede Smith - I have no clues pointing him to be RJ But in saying that I have no clues that tell me he isnt RJ aswell. NOTE he is 6'2 so does not fit Red Johns hight
6) Gale Bertram - For one Bertram is 6'3 so cant be Red John cause he is to tall But i defintly beleive he is an RJ acomplice
7) Ray Halfner - This would be my best guess to be RJ he worked at vissulise he is 6' tall he would have been 21 years old in 1988 and there could possibly be a reason why Red John didnt kill Lisbon because if Red John is Ray Halfner he wouldnt want to kill Lisbon as he likes Lisbon and just wanted to scare Jane to show him that he is still in controll

So from this we can elimanate Kirkland Stiles  Mcallister and possibly Bertram and Smith going by hight but since that isnt hard proof i will keep them as possible suspects leaving us with Partridge Halfner Smith and Bertram  and we will know by the next episode if Partidge is alive or dead witch will eather keep Partidge as a suspect if his body has disapeared  or dismiss him as suspect if his body is found dead (witch I beleive he is ) But if his body has some how gone from the scene then Partridge is your man because RJ never takes the bodys of his victoms away with him he always leaves them for people to see. So this would leave Bertram Smith Halfner and possibly Partridge  im telling you one of these 3 men is gonna be RJ :)
 
(My guess is Halfner I will be very surprised if it is not him)
                                  or Partridge :)

For me, there are only 2 possibilities:

1- Partridge isn't dead, he is Red John and it was just a trick to caught Teresa easily.
2- Partridge is dead and my number two, Gale Bertram is Red John. If i remember correct, Teresa called him in one Episode as " a clown". This could be the explanation why the Killer painted a Clown-Smiley on her face.

Furthermore:  in my opinion, the List of final 7 suspects is correct. It has to be...

For me it's a tie between two people. There are only two people on the list that somehow fit Rosalind's description of RJ, that would be Ray Haffner and Brett Partridge. Unlike most people on this site, I believe Partridge is in fact dead. However, I believe all 7 have a connection to RJ in some way. My other pick would be Gale Bertram, I know in the season premiere his lines were obvious but hear me out, nobody else in the entire show refers to Jane as "Boy Wonder" which was his circus name. I realize he does not at all fit the description but I do believe he has a deeper connection to RJ than we suspect. Haffner at this point looks like the best suspect simply because of his high tech background and his description, but like many suspects that we have met in the show, he seems a bit "too good to be true" at this point. And allow me to address an ongoing theory on the site, if Partridge did fake his own death somehow, and there was no body to show for whenever they find Lisbon, don't you think Jane would automatically believe that Partridge is the #1 guy, to me that would be exactly what the real red john wants, so whenever they do not find a body, Jane is going to suspect that Partridge is not dead.