I would first like to say thank you to the writers of the show for eliminating partridge as a suspect in the very first season six episode...god damn all u idiots who chose to go the route of red herring and assume the most obvious candidate for red john was in fact the real mccoy really dont understand the show at all.......

Anyways before season six started i was about80pct sure gale bertram was our man for many reasons that i will not delve in to right now,, due to lack of time and space for the amount of evidence i have acquired throughout the past 3 seasons...

However i will explain why 3 of the other candidates just dont fit the profile.


Brett stiles: as much as i would love the drama and excitement to have him as red john he is FAR too old to be him and there is no way he was working at a farm that the cult that he leads owns...Thats would be like Jerry Jones cleaning the cowboys jockstraps after a game....HEs way to high up in visualize to have worked at elliston farm and paint the rj smiley face on the barn.

Reede Smith:  Too fat and short to be red john,,,not basing this off of Rosalinds harker/ Sophie Millers description of RJ but rather after the scene from the season two finale Red sky in the morning where RJ saves janes life and is scene in a disguise....NO way this could have been smith,,, sure he could have lost weight but RJ looked atleast 3 or 4 inches taller than smith in that scene.

Thomas McCalister: I am actualy pretty offfended that he was even put into the suspect pool for RJ after appearing in just the second episode of the series.. But in any event.. the way Jane beat him at Rock paper scissors about one hundred times would reveal his intelligence to be far less supeiror than Janes, which we know is defintly not the case with Red John


So after we elimate partridge due to his death. that leaves it with three people...Bertram, Kirkland and Hafner


Kirkland is very plausible to be red john due to his suspicious behavior, but i also feel that like smith, he is too short to be Red John, however, i feel very strongly that he may be one of his accomplices just because i cant fathom explantions to his suspicious behaviors...But i cant completely rule him out just due to his height either,, i consider him to be the 3rd most likely suspect.

Hafner is my dark horse, and since season 6 has started i have begun to even consider him more plausible than bertram,, his suceess in wire taps/survelance could easily explain how he gathered the knowledge of janes suspect list,, and his mysteriious love for lisbon would also explain why red john spared her in the episode two weeks ago...the more i think about him the more i feel like hes the guy..

Bertram is still the main suspect in my mind though,, his blatanly suspicious behavior in the first two episodes of season six actually are making me worry though,, becuase in this show it never seems to be the obvious candidate,,,I just like him because of his actions in the season three finale, his physical characteritiscs, his abilty to easily keep track of jane and lisbon, the blake poem recital, and his tea drinking


I firmly belive tho that it is either bertram, hafner or kirkland in that order.

Hello every one. My name is Panithi(You may think it's an odd name. I'm Thai.). If you have any thoughts, please tell me. I will be glad hearing your comments. And, this is my last theory.
Now, let's start
First, Partridge is dead. If Partridge isn't, Heller will look like a fraud. So I think BP is dead
Second, Smith was too fat for red john in season 2 finale
Third, Kirkland isn't RJ because of when they shook hands, lorelei is in jail.
Fourth, Haffner. He isn't wearing a wedding ring. And if he is RJ, He doesn't need to change his job.
Fifth, Stiles doesn't wear a ring too.

That leaves Bertram and Sheriff.
look at the facts.
RJ wants PJ to be in jail. Bertram too.

Kirkland is RJ's friend. Why, he killed Jason Lennon without asking about rj so he wasn't the man who want to catches RJ and He isn't RJ.
When Bertram talked with Kirkland "Can we trust anyone?" He used we. they are a team.

RJ knows about PJ when he was a boy. The carnival
Bertram says "the boy wonder" in season 3 premiere. The boy wonder is the name PJ use when he was with his father Alex Jane.

RJ must've shook hands with PJ in the public so Lorelei can see.
GB shook hands with PJ in the crime scene.

RJ says in the letter to PJ when RJ killed PJ's wife, "I do not wanted to be slandered to the media.
GB cares a lot about the media too.

Now, the most important clue.
In season 3 finale.
PJ is in jail as red john wants.
Why is PJ in jail? Becaused he killed Carter.
How did he recognise Carter? Because O'laughlin's dead and Jane ask Lisbon for redialing every phone number
How did O' lauglin's dead? Because Jane knows about Craig's the inside man of RJ
How did Patrick knows? Bertram says it.
See? More than that, when Bertram's leaving he goes and see Carter. And, everything will be understandable why the plan of Jane doesn't work. AND, when the assasin died(suicide), she smiles. THAT IS NO COINCIDENCE.

Let's see more. Bertram wants Hightower in charge of the team. Why, so he could frame Hightower for killing Todd Johnson. Right?

Now let's go back to season 2 his red right hand episode. when Rebecca was going to the basement, RJ poisoned her. If it was Tom, how could he know that when Jane will interview Rebecca finish? If it was Bertram, He could. It wouldn't take long for going there right? And Bertram is Big Enough for being red john. Like Thomas, how could he have money?

And, someone of you thinks that Gale Bertram is too big to go to Sophie Miller's house. RJ has lots of accomplices. He could use his accomplice to go there. Someone that make Sophie cannot read his mind. Who, my bet is on Kirkland.

Jared Renfrew was killed in Mexico. The letters on the wall remains 2 things:
1. It was a fake because it wasn't at the top of Jared Renfrew. It was at the woman.

2. Jared says he is a friend of a friend of RJ. That must've been RJ's friend. It looks like He is Man. Maybe it is Judge Manchester. And you know who is a friend of Manchester. Bertram

THANK YOU,
regards,
Panithi Vanasirikul

It's gotta be Bertram. He quotes William Blake in season 3. Also, in the season finale of season 3 when he and Jane are waiting to "meet" Hightower he is not nervous (as Jane points out) and he seems quite content, like he knows exactly what is going on. Also, his position would explain how he always knows so much about what Jane is up to. Not to mention that he says in the latest episode "when you catch RJ, I'll be there". It's like he is taunting Jane. There is still the question of who else is involved and I don't have any answers regarding the conversation between the three suspects in Bertrams office.

I don't think Rosalind's description can be trusted at all
- She was in love with Roy Tagliaferro and refuses to accept that he's Red John. Even after he dumps a body in her house.

She describes him as just under 6' tall, not strong but not soft, and with short straight hair.
- That's the most vague average description you could think of
- That describes half of all men ever. It's certainly a perfect description of me.

I think she purposely gave the description of an average man. She isn't going to actively lead the police to her lover. Like she said, she doesn't live in our world. Why would she care about our investigations?

I do not know whether I am right or not, but, Patrick Jane is very clever guy and I think he already has found who RJ is. He is just proving with clues for himself in order to be sure. In ep 2, season 6, Bertram came to the team and gave new order about car explosion and, then he talked with Jane about Lisbon and RJ. After asking from Jane informing him about RJ case and clues, Bertram walked away and Jane looked at Bertram's steps and sound of his walking... And Jane's face a little bit changed when he was looking at it, because Jane met with RJ when RJ saved his life and if you remember, when RJ has walked away from Jane, there was sound of RJ's walking as the same is ep2s6. 
Any comments? 

Anyone find it interesting that Heller included the scene where Cho and Rigsby give their opinions on who Red John is?? BERTRAM

A couple things one, some people are suggesting red john is a lefty because of a scene in episode one.  I believe it suggest he is a righty. Before you disagree with do an experiment take any object I used a pop can hold it in your dominate hand (most of us that would be our right) and try to manipulate with your non dominate hand it felt awkward to me.  I tried with a few other things it seemed that i naturally stabilize an  item with my nondominate hand and manipulate it with my dominate one ie hold the knife with the left clean it with the rigth.  
Another thing we should probably already know if rj is righty or lefty we have several examples of him drawing something.  A handwriting expert could tell what hand he did it with also they could probably tell if it was done by one person or several. In my opinion if reede is a lefty as suggested this eliminates him as a suspect i also believe this elimnate the idea that more than one of them has killed under the name red john (several may still be involved though)  Why think it betram I don"t know I always have thought it was from the first time he appeared Just some thoughts