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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i think strngly that Red John is Haffner (who ele could be )
after seeing the last 2 episodes ,Jane assumed that red john is the one who tried to bug the cbi office and that's how he knew that "red john " has a tatoo on his left shoulder .but that was a trap 
well i think that red john is aware that some powerful people (the tyger squad ) are using his name to to commit their crimes and we know red john don't tolerate those actions (we know what he did to Lorelai ) and he is also aware about the tatoo so he made a fake a fake tatoo on his shoulder and killed that girl so he can set up Bertram Maccalister and  Smith.
that's live us with Stiles and Haffner 
well i don't think it's Stiles becauz he once helped Jane kidnapping Lorelei  and he is not strong enough to kill alone so i think it's Haffner 

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Theory #9338 • By Aaron
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The other possibility we're not engaging is that the tatoos are really not RJ. One of the 3 with the tatoos could have used that to frame RJ. Maybe they're bad people involved in some special club that takes matters into their own hands. Maybe we're down to 2 people. Stiles and Haffner. Of all the 5 left, there's only two who could be anyway. It's either Brett or Bertram. They're the only two that make sense from a power sense, personality, etc. The other 3 is just stupid. They're not bigger than life type people. It would be so disappointing for one of the other 3 to be it. Are they corrupt and sinister, sure. Could they be aiding and abbetting, sure. Are they RJ, no. I still have my money on Stiles. Although the I'm going to die thing could be true or subterfuge. So who knows? I'm not convinced they're not it until they're dead.

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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - Its written by William Blake who has also painted a "A brace of partridge". I think its pretty obvious also in a interview after episode where Partridge is "dead" Heller said - "Red John is getting active again and things are going to go all guns firing until the denouement, for sure. It HAD to be that WAY. And it's great fun making it that WAY" (Its fun to trick us, with a Partridge dead for him) + "There is a clue buried in that final sequence that will pay off big time in the finale of the Red John story. A very big clue". Also he said that we should watch FIRST few episodes very carefully. Every mystery is easy when u know it :).

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Theory #9334 • By gatoreric
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I read a couple theories that say lisbon is feeding information to Rj. I don't think this is true. A more likely possibility is that she is part of tyger tyger and not knowing she is feeding information to Rj. It would explain why Rj knew jane's list before he told anyone. I don't know if the list is fake or not. It would explain a lot.


Let me know if you agreement

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Bertram was never one of my suspects, to be honest he was the only one that was never a suspect to me. So in the end, if it's him, Heller was still able to surprise me. 
 
Why he was never one of my suspects? Being rationale:
- Because he recited one of Blake's poems in one of the previous seasons, and that was just too obvious.
- He is bald (and it seems a type of bald that doesn't change in 5 years)
- He is (maybe) too tall.
- He appears in some episodes giving interviews to the press, regarding CBI cases, meaning he was a public figure. So, if he was RJ, and if he went to Sophie appointment, he took the risk of being recognized by her, and that seems stupid.
- He seemed to be fooled by PJ several times.

But, in this last episode, I was very surprised having this strong intuition he is the one. It's something in the way he acted, he was different, in his eyes and posture, it was like a curtain raising, he is so false (like RJ should be) he completely changed is personality after PJ talked about the tattoo. All the others reactions seemed ridiculous if they were RJ, the other 4 reactions to Jane were stupid or unconvincing. 
I'm now sure it's him.

For those that think that reducing the suspects to only 3 would just be too obvious, I don't agree, reducing suspects one by one has been Heller strategy since the beginning of this season. It was him that reduced the list to 7 suspects.  It's just not possibly anymore to surprise us completely and it's more fun to make us think and investigate who could be RJ from the remaining suspects, than give any forced complex twist to the story just to trick us again. 
RJ will be more well accepted if he is someone that was close to PJ (but not that close) and tricked him all this time, Bertram also likes show off, he is polite and sinister, and he has a dubious relation with PJ (love/hate), and he his a good actor (Reed Smith is terrible).  

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Theory #9331 • By gevshek
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Who says that Brett
Partridge should be and has been killed by Red John? Can't he be a victim of
Tiger's, as he whispered desperately before his death? Of course, I now am
regarding him as really dead, but there is so much possibility and even
evidence for him to be still alive and wander across country; so if he
is really not RJ and or the mastermind that survived such death scene, we can
consider and credit him as dead; so, if we keep rolling, there are
approximately three candidates eliminated to be RJ as they are mainly the Tiger
squad members (Bertram, Sheriff and Reede Smith); but in the 6x6 episode we
clearly saw that the Visualize cult has some interesting, eccentric and maybe
meaningless rituals that can point out the deaths of RJ’s early victims (which
all of them were women, and women, as we saw, are the inner circle of Visualize’s
rituals), so those victims can be regarded as sacrifices for some superior good
in rituals, and RJ can be created as a fake character which can be seemed as a
serial psychopath killer and his kills may hide the true purposes and meanings
behind the deaths of those women. And when Patrick disregarded RJ identity,
Visualize may have took offence from Jane’s speeches like he has somehow tarnished
the holiness of those sacrifices; and thus, kill his family in return. Otherwise,
I can’t imagine another valid motive for Stiles and Visualize in the words of
being a serial women killer. Besides, I wonder that if the Ray Tagliaferro
identity must definitely reflect or point RJ, or not. Like Eric the Red,
everyone can be RJ, if they have a purpose for using an alternate identity.

However, if the reduction of
murder down to only women means a thing actually, Minelli is still my
candidate, as he was revealed to be a real liability when it comes to women, in
season 2 I think. RJ, for my opinion, has nothing important to do with the
Visualize or Tiger’s, he has his own reasons and goals, but Jane carried his
work up to a level that RJ can’t give up what he was intended to do or did, as
he clearly became popular to an extend that he didn’t wish for, and defined as
a sick miserable psycho by a then-celebrity Patrick Jane, and made Jane his
enemy due to his revenge for the disclosure. If we go back to the beginning;
does any of the 7 from the list have any motives or reasons for killing those
women (rather then the Stiles theory above)? Or Mashburn, or LaRoche, or K.
Frye, or others? Do we have any clues? Well, if we do, I sadly couldn’t catch
one. Who can absolutely deny the conspiracy theory that Visualize or even
Tigers may be using the RJ identity to do some dirty work, without any
permission from the real RJ? Does Wainwright have to be killed by the real RJ? Did
the ex-fiancée of Van Pelt (Craig O’L.) work for the real RJ?  Or can we say that RJ can be imitated by some
powerful people, as we saw before? Partridge looks like a freak that can be stretched
to any side, he is very versatile in the words of becoming innocent or a serial
killer, or even more; and LaRoche is definitely an oddball, but, rather than
that, what was the reason for them to kill women, and women only? I think,
without any other clues, Minelli has some reasons, as he was not confident with
women.

If we can count on that the
explanations of Rosalind Harker are really pointing the real RJ, Minelli can be
a candidate still; and the shrink/psychiatrist’s specifications are eligible
for Minelli to be RJ. Even the missing Kirkland twin can be working for the
unreal RJ.

I just like to brainstorm,
people. I can say that RJ is building up his ultimate revenge against Jane (because
Jane made this RJ thing a whole lot bigger and it is supposed or intended to be,
by making RJ popular, which was the direct opposite of the intensions of RJ,
and making RJ identity a good weapon for powerful people that can be used for
blaming or inflicting in their murders, which was not supposed to happen either)
by not killing him, but insulting him in every means, to a degree that Jane
will consume himself completely and get into such trouble by his own actions that
he can’t escape or even imagine, just for catching RJ. Jane can end up in prison
and/or asylum again, but this time, without any motive or mental energy left
for escaping or surviving there. Then, the mentalism will end… Because simple
killing may be enough for Jane as he is desperate, but it is not enough for RJ.
He wants it to be a total victory, I think.

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this isnt a theory, this is spoilers for the next episode based on pictures, cast list, and sources.
dont read this if you dont want to know who the real rj is.
and i dont care about green or red votes because this aint a theory.






s607 - sherrif thomas mcallister dies.
s608 - reede smith gets arrested, red john will be gale bertram.

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