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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It seems that there are many people to know the face of Red John. It makes me always uncomfortable about him being only one person. Even one of them betrays him, PJ will know the real name of RJ. Every disciple know RJ different than the other disciples? I don't like the idea of being RJ more than one people but there could be one person who unites and controls them. But he does not have to be the one who killed PJ's family. Timothy Carter was the one who murdered them but at the end there is only one person they answer. Could be Brett Stiles.

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In the middle of the episoude S06E03 McAllister arrives with jane and lisbon at the "bella-vista" and he doesn't want to go there, maybe afraid of highs? NO.

When they arrive you can lister the sound of birds, so he starts looking to everywhere as you can see. He is indeed unconfortable there, then he left.

I dont believe that McAllister. But somehow he doesn't like birds.

That the reason he killed "Partidge" first haha

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Theory #5980 • By redjohnhimselfs97
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its blaitanly thomas mcallister, i can list a series of reasons. my reasons are based on the episode 'wedding in red' First off his phobia of heights which he gives away to lisbon and Jane.   second his fear of pigeons, thirdly the way his voice is very much like red johns on the phone, he seems to have a sudden change in voice when on the phone to jane and then even more bizzarely he creeps up behind jane immdiaitely after jane hangs up the phone, and shows abit of nervousness around jane and comes up with the excuse of hunting when jane asks why hes right behind him. another fact is that he saves janes life makes me question thomas mcallister even more as he has previously save janes life in series 3 where red john picks jane up by the chair and says to jane 'if its one thing i wont tolerate its cheap mutations of my work' and shoots the people trying to kill jane.  hes also very good at examining the body in the episode where him and jane are discussing the clues based on the body. he's very quiet at following jane around in the church and at the pond where jane is on the phone to mcallister. he seems very psycholoigcally clever the way in which he examines the body with jane aswell.

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Theory #5977 • By Undecided
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its blaitanly thomas mcallister, i can list a series of reasons. my reasons are based on the episode 'wedding in red' First off his phobia of heights which he gives away to lisbon and Jane.   second his fear of pigeons, thirdly the way his voice is very much like red johns on the phone, he seems to have a sudden change in voice when on the phone to jane and then even more bizzarely he creeps up behind jane immdiaitely after jane hangs up the phone, and shows abit of nervousness around jane and comes up with the excuse of hunting when jane asks why hes right behind him. another fact is that he saves janes life makes me question thomas mcallister even more as he has previously save janes life in series 3 where red john picks jane up by the chair and says to jane 'if its one thing i wont tolerate its cheap mutations of my work' and shoots the people trying to kill jane.  hes also very good at examining the body in the episode where him and jane are discussing the clues based on the body. he's very quiet at following jane around in the church and at the pond where jane is on the phone to mcallister. he seems very psycholoigcally clever the way in which he examines the body with jane aswell.

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Heller is playing us all!  If your theory changes every episode, you're falling right into his trap!
In all honesty, we don't have enough information at this point to prove who RJ is.
Here are my ideas of what to base a good theory on:
Look at the themes of the show (misdirection, deception, a story behind the facade, etc.)
Don't read too much into a single "clue," it can always be a red herring.  For example, Rosalind Harker's description of Roy, RJ's voice, the alleged phobia, whether he killed someone or one of his followers did.
Patrick knows more about RJ than we could ever dream, so pay attention to him.  However, sometimes he is acting, lying, deceiving etc. so we can't always trust what we see!  But remember, he is similar to RJ (tyger, tyger symmetry).

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I have always been an advocate of PJ as RJ or at least the possibilty of it being him. They constantly do teases that it is. Here are a couple from the last episode. 1) PJ is scared of heights. Evidence - when he gets taken out onto the church roof, before hand he says. I would love to go out there but i dont have wings charlie. He then proceeds to crawl and pretty much say ooooooh. Then something like Charlie saying we will find a way down and PJ saying that is what i am afraid of. He is also terrified when the sheriff helps him and crawls back in.2( he then says and I quote "sending out mixed messages is one of my many failings" 3) mcallister then says at your disposal any time 4) Why did PJ not enter the wedding,. STRANGE.

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