Who is Red John?

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List of seven

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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WHY Lisbon didn't tell Jane that HAFFNER came to see her in the hospital??? 

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Hi all,

I know a lot of us suspect a lot of people on the show.....

All I can say is that the pressure really is on Bruno to pull off an epic here because every possible outcome ( based on what we have been fed all these years) has been discussed, analyzed, raped, heck even produced offsprings.....

Whatever the outcome is of episode 8......I just hope he doesn't disappoint.....I really love the show and would like to continue to watch mentalist after 6x8.....

Keep guessing and discussing :) more power to you mentalists !!!!!

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Brett Patridge and Lorelei both arent really dead !!!

Why on earth would Red John kill on of the suspects and in turn increase the chances of Jane discovering who he really is???

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I think we should eliminate Haffner , in S04E02 he asks Cho is Jane smarter then you ? Cho answers : Yes , then Haffner asks him again is Jane smarter than me !? Cho : Yes , Haffner : You are probably right

Red John will never admit that jane is smarter than him , but Haffner did admit that Jane is smarter than him 

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The list is FAKE.  The Direct TV synopsis for the up comming October 20 episode titled "red listed"  states:  Jane's list of fake Red John suspects is stolen, the team realizes those named are in danger.

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Just a question: i was seeing again some scenes with all the suspects and i realised that we don't have a single scene with Haffner, Lisbon and Jane together. I missed one or it's true? It's nothing special and we cannot say Ray is Red John because of it, of course, but i find it weird...

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Walter Mashburn=Robert "Bob" Kirkland=Red John

I feel that you have to take the entire series into consideration to find out who Red John really is.

Walter Mashburn always appeared strange and totally qualifies to be Red John, but in this text I wont focus on what makes him a Red John suspect, but rather how he can be the same person as Robert Kirkland.
For some reason Mashburn was completely removed from the series, about the same time that Patrick Jane killed "Red John" (Timothy Carter). I don't know if it's just me, but I can see strong resemblances between Walter Mashburn and Timothy Carter, which isn't strange since Timothy is trying to imitate Red John.

Walter Mashburn's latest appearance in the series was in the episode "Red Hot" (S03E07).
Robert Kirkland doesn't appear in the series until "Red Dawn" (S05E05), which means that Mashburn had more than enough time for plastic surgery (and more than enough money to afford it). 

This could be the reason why Kirkland asked Jason Lennon if he recognized him before killing him.

Mashburn was a suspect on Jane's original suspect list (people he had shaked hands with), but he isn't on the latest list. Robert Kirkland is on the latest list, while he isn't on the first one. So, when Heller says Red John is definitely on the list, he isn't lying. His identity has just changed.

In the latest episode (S06E02) Rigsby checks the names of Sophie Miller's patients. Jane immediately focus on the name Jay Roth, due to Roth meaning Red. I think this is a red herring, and not Red John himself. Another patient is Mitchel Livingston Washburn, whom I think is the real Red John (Mashburn, Washburn, M/W upside down).

If this is true, nothing in Sophie Miller's recording about Jay Roth can be taken into consideration, which means that the part about a phobia is another red herring, which might lead to one of Red John's accomplices, but not Red John himself.

I guess several of the names on the list can be accomplices of Red John, but I don't want to believe that the majority of them are. Brett Partridge can for sure be an accomplice, but I don't think all of Bertram, McAllistor and Smith are. 

I might have missed something here, but right now it's all I come to think of.

Anyways, my main suspect for Red John is Walter Mashburn, in the appearance of Robert Kirkland.

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