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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Well, the two main RJ suspects for now are ray haffner and mcallister, this is why im sure
haffner is RJ.
Some of the information has been collected from other potential theories, but some of it
is information that I found by myself (4,6,8 to be exact).
RJ Is one of the last 5 suspects, it has been confirmed by Heller, and PJ isn't RJ, nor anyone
who isn't in the list. The proof for that is the lack of the use of "red" in every episode, after
the 8th episode in this (6th) season.


1. Arachnophobia (Fear of spiders)
Patrick Jane's psychologist said that RJ suffers from Acrophobia or another type of phobia, so fear of
spiders not only is another phobia from the same family, but sounds almost the same as Acrophobia.

2. "He is mar.."
When RJ Killed in the end of the first series, the victim wrote on the wall (with his own blood) "He is mar.." which is almost for sure "He is man" = Heisman CUP, a football cup that guess who has one,
on his desk? Ray Haffner.

3. RJ's Profile
Ray Haffner has short hair, he's 6'1 tall,correct age to be in the burn, knows how to handle a
gun thin, well spoken, has many connections, member of visuallize and has a lot of money.

4. RJ's clap on the shoulder after finishing the conversation
Red John clapping his hand on jane's shirt (2:10-2:12)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_DWnqrEdI
Ray Haffner clapping his hand on cho's shirt (0:27-0:28)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKWkOauew4A

5. Great Whistler
RJ is a great whistler, Ray Haffner whistle very good after his conversation with lisbon.

6. Admires jane's capabilities
Ray haffner always says that patrick jane is the smartest, and he's probably clever than him.
Ray haffner even asks other people what they think about jane.

7. Care for Lisbon
When RJ could have killed Lisbon, he chose not to do so.
RJ speaks a lot about Lisbon.
Ray haffner tried to transfer her to his firm, and he always come to talk to her after her encounters
with RJ.

8. "Have a lot of anger inside himself"
Patrick jane's psychologist said that RJ has a lot of anger inside himself, the only suspect that jane
told the same thing (last episode S6E5) was to.. guess who.. Ray Haffner - he said to RH "You have
a lot of anger inside you, it isn't good for you".

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Middle aged, in good health, well spoken, good posture, self possessed, excellent whistler, pleasent self presentation, deceptive and dark, real phobia.

So aren't Bertram, Stiles and the sheriff too old to fit the description "middle aged"? Also Stiles doesn't seem to fit the description "in good health" and "good posture".

The Sheriffs reaction to Jane leaving the room in 6x02 was "what the hell was that all about" - I wouldn't call that "well spoken".

Important note is that Sophie millers says that Red John's phobia is real wether it's acrophobia or some other phobia.

In 6x05 Haffner freaks out when he sees a spider and says he hates spiders (arachnophobia).

What are your thoughts?

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I think, that Red John is Bob Kirkland's TWIN brother. They said about him in the series for a reason. And even if Bob Kirkland said that his twin brother was killed by Red John, I think it is not true. There is a possibility that Red John was an old man, started to kill people long time ago (evidence is "the face" on the building in one of the episodes). If that old man died, Bob Kirkland's twin brother could continue the work of original Red John.
I am betting for Evil Twin!!!

P.S. I think Bob Kirkland thought about it, that is why he was asking everyone "Do you recognize me? Have you seen me before?" hoping, that victims would mistake him for his twin!

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First, some people seem to think there is a disconnect between Tiger Tiger and RJ..and they may even be in opposition to each other.  I don't think that makes sense, since RJ himself quoted the TT poem.  So I think RJ is head of TT.

Later, Bertram recites part of a different Blake poem, just out of the blue.  I also think he is just playing the semi-clueless paper pusher who can't handle PJ. 

Now some people who it isn't:

Partridge - faking his death would be too cliche
Cho, Rigsby, Lisbon - What sort of huge coincidence would it be that Jane stumbled upon the CBI team that happened to include RJ.

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Okay, even if the man who killed the private investigator, it must be someone from the list. At the scene she answers the door, we can see the killer's shadow and we can see he has hair so we can eliminate Brett and Gale. When Cho asked, she said the man who she was working for was from visualize so my guess is Haffner. I'm not saying he's RJ, I still think this is a fake list. I think PJ is working alone, he can't trust anyone

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This isn't mine, I found it and thank whoever found this out. 

Roll Tide is a common phrase for Alabama, whose mascot is the Elephant. I searched William Blake and Elephant, which he had drawn and also noted the character of the elephant in his “Heaven and Hell” poem:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_blake/poems/1105.html
This poem uncovers various roles of the animals, including the tyger, and it seems to be more telling of this series and the RJ suspects and Jane, etc, than other poems. It’s worth a look.
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i think Red John isn't in the list  .. because no one in the list close to Brett Partridge when Teresa looks at the map in S06E01 .. http://goo.gl/RzPD7P

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