There really has only ever been three suspects for me bertram stiles and partridge they have been with us the longest. Macalister was only in one episode and the other are all recent add ons. They have the most developed characters in the show and with patridge being dead(proving he is involved) I believe that points the finger at one of these two being behind it if not both
If you look at The Mentalist Wiki website there is a list of upcoming episodes. The episode before the "Red John" episode is entitled "The Great Red Dragon". I realy think that all of our theories will be answered on that show. I think the seven suspects are akin to the seven headed dragon painted in a series of paintings by William Blake (author of "The Tyger") poem. These supposedly represent the devil ( the 666 reference in the hallway in 6x1) and I think that it will be shown that all seven suspects were in a conspiracy of some sort that invloved the seven-headed evil dragon.
The "Red John" episode will focus only on the clues to the Red John story that we have all debated endlessly about for the past few years. The focus will be on Kristina Frye, Rosiland Harker and maybe even Erica Flynn. There will be some resolution to the Red John story (Patrick will have to win)
The next episode is supposedly "My Blue Heaven" which will be the first part of the next Mentalist chapter with the new characters introduced in the CBI and Jane's life will be a lot happier.
What about when they say that RJ has someone on the inside in the FBI? What about if it is a woman rather than a man, just to throw us off, because everyone thinks RJ is a man, maybe that disguises her voice? She also has red hair. Just a thought, not super convinced. I also have another thought. It would be too obvious to have ANY of those 7 suspects that we all were made to be suspicious about on Black winged bird. What if RJ is actually Jane whom is schizophrenic and his "alter ego" is RJ, killed his own wife, and now just to mess with the CBI has them hunting on a wild goose chase, and can keep tabs on the investigation in the mean time. I hope not, I like him so much! To explain this theory, he would have had to go to the physchiatrist's house in disguise as well, to not look like Jane, maybe too far fetched???
Am i the only one who's noticed a majority of the people think it's haffner? Is it possible that Heller wants us to think it's heffner, it's almost as if he loves to throw false clues to throw us off track. Heller is good at that! I think he is too smart to give us enough clues to figure out who red john is this early, he would be more careful. Gale Bertram is a possibility for me, he has the power, even though Bret Stiles has more power, i doubt he is a notorious serial killer, well, at least it's very unlikely! i think it could be bertram because he has that creepy vibe about him, he is always trying to find out what Jane knows, and his voice sound very much like red john only a deeper version. I hope you see where i'm coming from!
Red John has short straight hair (as described by Rosalind Harker) so BERTRAM and STILES are out of the picture.
Red John has to have a good physique and strong so Reede Smith is gone.
Now left with Bob , Haffner and McAllister.
According to Dr . Miller Red John is a very good whistler , Out of the three options left in s06e02 they showed Haffner and McAllister whistling just to mess with us. So most likely RJ would be BOB KIRKLAND !!!!!
Red John has short straight hair (as described by Rosalind Harker) so BERTRAM and STILES are out of the picture.
Red John has to have a good physique and strong so Reede Smith is gone.
Now left with Bob , Haffner and McAllister.
According to Dr . Miller Red John is a very good whistler , Out of the three options left in s06e02 they showed Haffner and McAllister whistling just to mess with us. So most likely RJ would be BOB KIRKLAND !!!!!!!
And lastly Kirkland's voice is almost similar to RJ . He is the only one with an evil look in his eyes...
Just an hunch..
Most of these people are easy to track. It should be easy to
determine which of them could have been available to be at the scene
with Partridge. Also, it should be relatively easy (even after 5 months)
to determine which of them might have been free to visit Sophie or take out Patrick's happy memory etc. I am sure that Patrick used much of this public knowledge to narrow the list to the seven suspects.
This type of acalysis gets complicated if RJ is really just the leader of a consortium.
Which I think is probably the best guess. It explains why the finger
points in so many directions. In fact Brett might have been part of that
consortium. RJ took him out of the consortium because he was afraid of Brett Partridge (a bird). (RJ is afraid of birds).
I've got to go with Bertram as the leader, the true RJ (or at least a member of the consosrtium), because he basically says so to Jane. “When you get Red John in your sights I’ll be there”