First of all, this is not really a theory, just want to point something out.
1- the show is becoming fucking annoying, and stupid
2- the most obvious suspect to be red john is dead, or we suppose he is.
Now, let me tell you something. Patrick is not stupid, and in my opinion this is a fake list that he wanted red john to have to mislead him.
Because think about this, if Patrick really suspects of these 7 guys, he just had to do one thing: Set a meeting with all of them, in a place like CBI. He could just send a message to all the 7 suspects to be in CBI, and then guess what? He only needs to call Rosalind too. Rosalind will touch every suspects face and listen to them talking, and easily she will tell Jane who the hell is Red John. That would be so fuckin easy.
I dont even understand why are they spending so much time making new episodes when they can go straight to the point.
Anyway, this show is becoming stupid, we have also seen episodes where the killer touches the weapon of crime with his own hands (without using gloves) and leaves the weapon right after the killed person. They spend a whole episode try to find the guy, when all they should do would be pick the weapon and take fingertips LOL.
Anyway, my point is, the list must be fake, and in my opinion Brett Partridge is not really dead. Because I think he is RJ.
And CBI Ron must be one of RJ's puppets, I'm 100% sure of that.