Who is Red John?

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Thomas McAllister
Thomas McAllister
Reede Smith
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Ray Haffner
Ray Haffner
Gale Bertram
Gale Bertram
Brett Partridge
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Bret Stiles
Bret Stiles
Bob Kirkland
Bob Kirkland

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Theory #681 • By Roger Federer
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I fink it is summer becuz she is fit and the fit birds always backstab u dont they? I hate women since my gf attacked me, i only followed her home sometimes :( But yea I fink its summer becuz she reminds me of my gf and she is capable of bein a serial killer like im gona be when i get out of hospital

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Theory #680 • By malcom..
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I think that K.C is Red John coz he is asian. I think that thwe shadow looks like an asian becuase he looks like he has eaten a dog

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I think its the new guy from Homeland Security - Agent Kirkland. He suddenly comes from nowhere and takes charge of finding Jane and Lorelie... wasnt that wierd?

His voice also possesses that high pitched tone of Red John's and there were shots where he was shown getting irritated with all the questioning and interrogation of Lorelie's mother. And 

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I think that RJ is definitely Walter Mashburn. He's been in two episodes and you get the feeling that you don't see the real Mashburn. You only see his projected exterior and it seems like his interior has some dark qualities. (This is the main reason I don't find Minelli to be a likely suspect - we know his character too well). Mashburn's interactions with Jane are fascinating. They have conversations fully laced with RJ ideas:
Mashburn: If you plan it right, you can get away with murder, maybe next time I'll be the killer, you'll have to catch me, describes himself as vain, egotistical, hates being ignored, cunning, ruthless, and hates to lose - sounds a bit like Jane and we know RJ and Jane are alike, and he brings up Jane's past.
Jane: describes the color red as representing passion, lust, & anger ( be sure to watch Mashburn's slight smile at that - almost like an inside joke because red's his color)

Other things to notice: when you buy the full seasons packs of the mentalist, it's season 2 that's theme color is bright red (1-blue, 3-green, 5-dark red/brown). This is because Season 2 is when RJ is introduced and it's episode 13 (unlucky #) Redline where Mashburn/RJ is introduced. Mashburn constantly wears the color red and also uses RJ's other color yellow. Remember the yellow flowers in the episode where Bosco & team were killed that RJ left for Jane. Mashburn's car that Jane crashed was yellow and the one Jane "chose" for him was red.

In the second episode with Mashburn, we learn that Mashburn had his heart broken by a woman when she chose to marry Yuri instead. This could be what threw him over the edge and what influenced him in how he chose to take revenge on Jane.

Mashburn is the only suspect with the money and the personality to be RJ. He is really the only one that's managed to have a similar effect on Lisbon as Jane does and we know that Jane and Red John are very much alike.

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I think that RJ is Walter. I'm agree whit the reasons that the reader "mashburn23" explain, this was his message ""Firstly is obvious
that Red John is a powerfull and well connected man. We can see this
because he can afford a limo and also several resources, such as software to
spy on CBI and to hack there network. Besides when RJ kills his copycats we can
see his wearing a suit and good shoes(killing the copycats wasnt a planed kill
so he must likely went to kill them with what he was wearing in his
normal life). So i will assume that he is rich, I will consider him a
well sucefull business man. He is also very persuasive, and bored with his
life, needs excitement (if u check mashburn's episodes you can see that he fits
the profile, and for some reason in one of his episodes a lot of ppl are
wearing red clothes). On the first season it was wrote on the
wall "he is Ma", which could be " he is Mashburn". And
Finally We know that patrick Jane meet RJ already. This is my opinion, sry for some grammatical errors"


I want to add, if, finnally, Walter is RJ, it will be very exciting because lisbon was in love with him!! In addition, RJ knows that the best way to damage Jane is attacking his family, and, now, Lisbon is the person most important in his life!

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Firstly is obvious that Red John is a powerfull and well connected man. We can see this because he can afford a limo and also several resources, such as software to spy on CBI and to hack there network. Besides when RJ kills his copycats we can see his wearing a suit and good shoes(killing the copycats wasnt a planed kill so he must likely went to kill them with what he was wearing in his normal life). So i will assume that he is rich, I will consider him a well sucefull business man. He is also very persuasive, and bored with his life, needs excitement (if u check mashburn's episodes you can see that he fits the profile, and for some reason in one of his episodes a lot of ppl are wearing red clothes). On the first season it was wrote on the wall "he is Ma", which could be " he is Mashburn". And Finally We know that patrick Jane meet RJ already.
This is my opinion, sry for some grammatical errors

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