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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Theory #7860 • By REAL
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As for the three dots. Did anyone notice how PJ smeared the three blood dots that the PI made on her arm when telling Jane about the tattoo. I imagine this is bc Jane has a tattoo with three dots and the TTO/RJ is trying to frame Jane. Jane could have gotten this tattoo back in his carnie days.

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Theory #7861 • By Sheepity
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Not a theory just something i am not sure about. And i wanted to get some feedback how u guys see it:

Eye color

in 2.10 we meet a young Patrick Jane played by Chris Brochu. Chris Brochu has blue eyes, Simon Baker on the other hand has green eyes. Young Jane has 5 scences in that episode.

First Scence is the on stage performance.
Second scene is the first part wheel.
Third is the second part on the wheel.
Forth is the first part of the private seance
Fifth is second part of that seance.

Now when i watched those scenes it seemed to me that young Janes eyes a strong greenish glow to them in the very first scene.
In the second and third it is hard to tell because we see them only half open and with shadows falling on them.
In the forth scene they are clearly blue at least by the time he ran out and also in the fith scene they seem mostly blue.

So my question do u guys see the same thing or is it just bad video quality?

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Theory #7859 • By RJisOscar
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The show has a lot of Spanish references He is Mar (El es mar)
Red tattoo -  La vida loca posted by another member.
It all points to Ardiles isn't he Hispanic? RJ is Oscar! DUM DUM DAH

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I just found this site a few weeks ago and have really enjoyed it. My wife and I have fallen headlong into this series. This is my first post and although I have ready through many theories, there is no way I've taken in all of them. So if this is a repost I apologize.

I've came up with this from reading everyone elses theories and I hope it makes sense.
I believe RJ to be many. As in He is mar... I believe the Tyger Tyger Organization is lead by RJ. RJ is not so much a single person as it is a title. Whoever is the leader of TTO at the time is RJ. So several people have been RJ over the years. This would explain how Timothy Carter knew the smell of PJ's family . Because actually killed his family because he was RJ at that particular time. After Jane kills him the next in line becomes RJ or maybe RJ is elected by by ranking members of TTO. The TTO, and RJ by default, have the same motives in their killing, Im not sure what this is though. The TTO has decided to do all killings similar in order to make the CBI/FBI/etc believe this to be the act of one man. So RJ has changed several times either because the acting RJ was killed or the leader of the TTO changed for some reason. If this is the case then several of the suspects could have been RJ at one time espcially Burtram, Haffner, and Stiles. This would also explain the differing descriptions given by people who knew RJ i.e. Rosalnd Harker and Sophie Miller.
Hope this makes sense!
** I only selected GVP to accuse bc it made me choose a selection** I do think she is involved in someway however, although it may not be exactly on purpose by her.

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Theory #7856 • By stu
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Prehaps it is a couple of the original seven suspects. In season 6 episode 4, Reede Smith reveals that Bob Kirkland's theory of there being an organisation with law enforcement agencies is indeed correct. With this, it is plausible that this organisation is actually called Red John, and that there is no one serial killer. Possibly, instead, having a scenario like having someone charming (like Stiles) to entice people in, Bertram to run the organisation, and have people like Haffner or Smith do the killing.

Either that or the organisation is going to be something PJ and the team are going to expose next season, when there is no more Red John to deal with.

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Guys,
We seen Haffner buffing up right in a sleeveless top. He is left handed but does he have a tattoo???? I can't remember seeing one. He is perfect ..a little too perfect. Red John would put on a show right wouldn't show his true self BUT he wouldn't be able to hide his competitive side with Jane. There is no way Red John would show how smart he is in his true form. No way. He would do the opposite.
Therefore, when someone can find the video of him then its might be him. I can't fiiind it so annoying.

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If Ray Haffner is Red John, then why would he pay someone to bug the CBI?  He had permission to be in the CBI office anytime he wanted.

He could have bugged the room himself, so why would Red John run the risk of exposing himself by hiring a private eye to do something he could do himself.  Further, the bugging makes no sense at all any way.  If the private eye were to listen in on the conversations in the CBI, she would put two and two together and realize that the person who hired her to bug the room is the suspect the CBI is hunting. 

Therefore, in my opinion, Red John is not Ray Haffner.

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