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Bob Kirkland

Bob Kirkland
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I've gone through all of the Red John related episodes since the first season and the most profound hint that I've found so far is in episode 1x11 Red John's Friends.  About half way through the episode, Red John hacks the medical records for the CBI and has a short chat with Jane.  Pause the episode when it goes to Red John typing at 22:31 on the DVD's and you can see the younger reflection of Bob Kirkland without any facial hair. Go check it out right now I kid you not.  Bob Kirkland is RED JOHN.

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My thoery tells that there are two red john not one ,red john poison rebbeca right?he also use the same with jason lennon ,Bob kirkland was the man who poison rebbeca and lennon ,and the second red john is Brett Patridge because he match red john (Voice,BODY SHAPE)

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The William Blake Poem Tyger Tyger seems to be a significant
clue in not only the identification of Red John but also his relationship to
Jane.  The line which ends in “frames thy
fearful symmetry” is the part that resonates most for me.  Just a thought….not a theory…Bob Kirkland
could be Patrick’s twin / brother. 
Kirkland is evasive when discussing his hometown with Lisbon, saying
only that he traveled around with his parents work and he considers himself
from “America.”  Travellers is a term
also used to describe what the series refers to as Carnies.  Also, he drinks a  bloody Mary when he is reviewing the Red John
wall copied from Patrick’s loft which is the same drink Patrick has on the
Anniversary of the murder of his wife and child.  As I said, just a thought…

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Is the first off the list Sheriff McCallister?  Check this picture from the set of the Desert Rose:

http://www.spoilertv.co.uk/images/the-mentalist/Season%206/Set%20Photos/25th-26th%20July%202013/The+Mentalist+-+Season+6+-+Set+Photos+-+25th-26th+July+2013+%289%29.jpg.php

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My thoery tells that there are all acompolise to red john for example:-he need someone near patrick jane like gale bertatram,and someone who clean the crime scenes like brett patridge,and RD used bob kirkland to know what Jane last achievments

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Hello guys... I am pretty sure that red john is Bob Kirkland..
Why ???
Well in Season 5 episode 07, Bob Kirkland meet's Patrick (and shake his hand)
Patrick don't know him.. but Bob know everything about Patrick.. wierd right ??
(40min) of episode..

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I think red john could be one of four persons - Bob Kirkland, Brett Styles, Kristina Frye and Walter Masburn. Brett, Kristina and Walter are charasmatic persons who Patrick Jane likes (I refer to the comment Lorelei made about RJ and PJ being similar and she cant understand why they are not friends).

Although I don't find Bob Kirkland likeable, has anyone noticed that when he shook hands the first time with PJ he placed his hand on PJ in a similar manner to what PJ does when he hypnotises people?. He also did that when they met at the hospital after he killed Lennon. I think this is significant.

I think that initially RJ hypnotised PJ when he was institutionalised after his wife and daughter's murder (we do not know who visited PJ then) and I think that Bob Kirkland laying his hand on PJ is reactivating the hypnosis - maybe PJ's happy memory was planted RJ in the first place?

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