Hi everyone. 

I think Heller is messing with us. It's quite simple:


We all know from Rosalind that RJ is under 6 feet tall. 

We also have Jane's feedback:
"Red John thinks of himself as a showman; an artist. He has a strong sense of theater ... the first thing that anyone sees is the face on the wall. You see the face first and you know. You know what's happened and you feel dread. Then, and only then do you see the body of the victim. Always in that order."

Another clue was in a radio that interview Heller: "Red John is really just a personification of death, I mean it's that simple. Patrick Jane is very much alive and is very much about being alive in the face of death. And Red John is the fate that awaits us all in the end."

(source: http://www.tvtimemachine.com/1333/interview-with-the-mentalist-creator-bruno-heller)

I mean... 'Personification of death'? Who's better than a forensic????

And last: the first Partridge's line on the show was: 'Red John enters here...'
Introducing himself with all strong sense of theater  as Jane said.



I trully believe Brett isn't death. That's why his body wasn't investigated or showed up.

Let's think: Brett is a primary suspect on Jane's list...
Why the hell Jane never search for the body, or for evidence?
I mean... They told Jane 'Partridge is dead' and that's it? 

Our clever Patrick would just sit on the bench and watch the others without any confirmation?

LoL not here.

That's why Heller said that it would be disappointing..
... Just because we all would figure it out easily.

Let me know what y'all think.

The list is fake and I think the next episode will prove it. In the promo for Fire and Brimstone, Lisbon says "If you do this, and you're throwing your life away", Jane: "No one is leaving, bye Lisbon" and the building blows up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqIiOERZeY



I'm suggesting that in this next episode Jane is going to fake his death along with all remaining fake suspects. Lisbon and the team won't know and Lisbon's grief will help convince RJ that it was real. RJ will relax because Jane is dead and Lisbon will think RJ is dead because she believed in the list of seven suspects who are all dead at that point. It will be like the season 4 finale where Jane faked a breakdown only this trap has been carefully sewn for several episodes. The audience didn't know that Jane's breakdown was fake until he told Lisbon. Similarly in this season, the audience believes the list is real because Lisbon does.



I think it was the tiger tiger group that killed the private investigator in the Red Tattoo so that will be no help in finding RJ, it did however give Jane a good excuse to get the remaining fake suspects in a room together that Lisbon would believe. With everything happening with the tiger tiger group, it's more likely that they were the ones feeling so threatened that they wanted to bug Jane's office.



Now I've always believed RJ to be Walter Mashburn and as far as I can remember he is the only suspect that had a phobia before they started shoving supposed phobias from the fake suspects down our throats. Jane guessed that Mashburn had a mild dirt phobia. RJ has always been very good at leaving no evidence behind at crime scenes. From the psychiatrist we know that RJ has a phobia of some kind. Now consider when RJ visited the psychiatrist, it would be very important that he didn't leave any fingerprints so he probably touched as little as possible and wiped down anything he actually touched. This would've come across as a cleanliness phobia to Sophia Miller. RJ is not scared of birds, heights, or spiders. RJ is simply very good at not leaving condemning evidence behind.

red john is not on that list . if you noticed folks that when Lisbon got the tip off on one of the suspects you could have seen on the computer where the other 6 suspects was located. these suspects was no way nearby when the Lisbon and partridge scene went down. that should say something. go back to the episodes with  Walter Washburn and another also max winter who was portrayed so suttle that I think a lot of mentalist fans missed the clues with regards to him being an rj suspect. observe how easily he manipulated Jane into taking the gun as a gift, it was almost as if he new jane's thoughts and what was going to take place next . the only two other mentalist presented in this entire show was WALTER MASHBURN  AND MAX WINTER   the man who gave jane the gun that he used to kill  the  the guy who was posing to be red john. RED JOHN is either of the two. I cant choose but I have a strong vibe that its one of these men with evidence for theory based on observing but WALTER IS STILL MY FAVORED SUSPECT ,I THINK I KINDA WANT TO SEE HIM ABOVE ALL AS  RJ.

Here is my Simple Theory..

In fact i'm not sure 100% of who is Red John , BUT...
In S06E03, at 03:35 Sheriff Thomas Mccalister came , and began to solve a case with jane ; The weird thing that they are alike , they solve the case by observing and getting conclusions faster. He is clever..
I think it's a link between RJ's phobia and Pidgeons.

  Pigeons appear 3 times: 

in the s06e01 (when Lisbon enter to the house , when Partridge was killed)
and
in the s06e02 ( when Jane and Lisbon stayed in the bench, and a woman next to them give some eat to pigeons)
and
 in the s06e03 ( Mccalister, when scared about Pigeon touches him , said, i hate Pigeons )

Plus Bruno Heller told us a big clue is in the first episode : It could be Pigeons.Sheriff Mccalister is a clever man , fits all the descriptions given and hates Pigeons.