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
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Sorry for the wall of text but i have many to say!

Okay 1st of all i'm now pretty sure Red John was in Visualize.And most of his accomplices are from Visualize too. Remember the bald cop that took the gun and mobile from the body of Timothy Carter?He is shown as a visualize member in an another episode.Ray is 100% associated with Red John.

Next i think that someone from Lisbon's team is helping or WILL help Red John.And i'm between Lisbon and Van Pelt.Lisbon is getting a bit upset everytime Patrick tells about his ''suspect list'' when Patrick started the list Lisbon was asking him if she was in the list  and that he should write her.Now at Ep13 she seems a bit nervous about the names jane has and asks to now (But there is a possibility that she is nervous because Ray may be involved to the murder in 1988 and RJ). BUT VanPelt is a strong possibility to be/will become a part of the chain with RJ

Why?

Val Pelt agrees and likes with the ideas of Visualize.So i think in some part of the show Red John or some of his friends will approach Van Pelt and at the end they will manipulate her.

Anyway everyone connected with Visualize is highly suspected from me to be a friend of RJ.

But who is RJ? Heller told that we may seen him already ( like Waldo as he said) at the background and that he may be already in the cast. I was always between Brett and Washmourn BUT i never noticed ... RON from CBI!

Think of it: He is in many episodes doing almost nothing (maybe he talks for 1 sec) , he is many times in the background , at last episode he is the first to congrats Lisbon for the 10 years anniversary. He fits in the description Rosalind gave.But the one thing that made me believe more to that theory is that in one episode you can see Ron's ring in his left hand.A similar ring can be observed in the scene when RJ is drinking some tea while Rosalind calls Jane.Watch the ring and you will see some similarities.Anyway that's my thought what do you think?

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Theory #1204 • By Trexpax
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I don't think it's the FBI guy who went with Lisbon to invertiew Lorelei Martins' mother. Lorelei couldn't have known that they schook hands. Of course it's possible it's a mistake from the writers but..let's assume it's not. 

Bret Stiles is someone that everyone thinks off. He appears often and is smart. It's possible his visualize is the organ that kills, seeing that all of Bret Stiles' people blindly follow him. Also Stiles was in the episode when Jane found out that he knows Red John. But because alot of people think he's Red John, I don't. It would be too easy. 

Brett Patridge might be the one. First off there's his voice. Though many of you would find the voice match to easy to guess, I for instance didn't even know about it untill I saw some videos (just now) and read some stuff about it on the forum. I don't think the writers would ever guess so many people would be trying to find out who Red John is. But then again, since most of the people here think he's RJ, he just might not be the one. But the Enigma is the main reason why it's probably him. The poem 'The Tiger' is key in finding out who RJ is, Jane knows that. It's written by William Blake, who drew a partridge in the title. Partridge <-> Patridge. When it comes to shows, especially the ones as good is The Mentalist, I don't really believe in coincidence...

But then again. The way Lorelei said 'you should have become friends when you shoke his hands' (or something like that) makes it seem like they don't really like each other and that they have only met once/in one episode...

No real suspect, just some thoughts :)

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Just a little prophecy about the next season finale:

Jane will reduce his list to a very small group of people like 3 or 4.
Then, in the season finale, he is going to play a trick on these people in order to reveal the identity of the true Red John among them. (Somehow as he did in episode 3x23...) This would be a typical season finale for Bruno Heller.

However, he is going to fail because Red John is not on his list and hasn`t been there. All of the people on the list are not guilty. (Otherwise the rest of the work would be pretty easy. Too easy. Red John wouldn't have played with such a high risk)

Red John is either a woman (I do not think so) or he is somebody he shook hands with before he killed Janes family, so Jane didn't even put him on his list in the first place.

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Red John is not one person, its a group of people organised as tight secret society. I would say 2-4 men/women, very intelligent and powerful, followed by network of powerful helpers/followers, very highly ranked society members, recruited because of their position, power or skills. Beneath them is group of soldiers, recruted and used when needed.

Within the top 2-4 there is a leader, Primus Inter Pares. Also there is a number of apprentices, trained and prepared to rise when their time comes.

One of the leaders, probably Primus, is someone that appears in Janes life from time to time, as he cannot withold attraction to Jane. Jane is obvious candidate for the apprentice, they want to turn him to the dark side. Killing his familly was part of the initiation process where they try to reboot him through a tragedy, separate him from anything he cares in this world so he can just step into darkness...

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The priest Dibuono said that the smile of Red John was already there when the farm was still in operation. A guy who worked there did that. Is the oldest evidence we have of Red John.
Or he did it or it's possible he was inspired by that picture. In any case have connection with Visualize.
We know that many people who worked there were criminals, drug addicts and cruel to animals. People who had nothing to lose, forgotten by their families, without civic ideals and moral values.
The best people you can manipulate, being capable.

MY QUESTION IS:
We know that the farm was losing a lot of money. Visualize is a powerful company, why Brett Stiles would want to lose money on a stupid farm because of three complete idiots in business??

I am convinced that Stiles had thought the farm as an experiment to see how people express their dark side, living in those particular conditions.
I believe that Stiles is Red John, a serial killer built by himself, that he was inspired by what was happening on the farm. The slogan of Visualize is: be the best side of you (or something similar).
And Red John is actually just a serial killer very self-disciplined and this has not always allowed to be taken. The fact that the Visualize hiding many of its stock is significant. Patrick shook hands several times with Stiles. I remember that Stiles brought Lorelei out of prison; if Red John wanted her there, why he would make her escape so easily?
And Stiles is a very clever mentalist, maybe better than Jane.

I think Brett Stiles feel like a god, and so he could be very beneficial  and very evil at the same time with the people. It's perfectly self controlled, clever, very powerful, in touch with powerful people, protect by a sects that worships him.
What else?

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we now know that RJ murders started in the early eighties.we also know that he was between the ages of 16 and 21 when he cute 2 peoplesafe to say he may have been married before that before he found visualize and they taught him how to be a self controlled murderer and how to be the best him he can be. Also the best serial killer he could be.

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