Am i the only one who's noticed a majority of the people think it's haffner? Is it possible that Heller wants us to think it's heffner, it's almost as if he loves to throw false clues to throw us off track. Heller is good at that! I think he is too smart to give us enough clues to figure out who red john is this early, he would be more careful. Gale Bertram is a possibility for me, he has the power, even though Bret Stiles has more power, i doubt he is a notorious serial killer, well, at least it's very unlikely! i think it could be bertram because he has that creepy vibe about him, he is always trying to find out what Jane knows, and his voice sound very much like red john only a deeper version. I hope you see where i'm coming from!

Most of these people are easy to track. It should be easy to
determine which of them could have been available to be at the scene
with Partridge. Also, it should be relatively easy (even after 5 months)
to determine which of them might have been free to visit Sophie or take out Patrick's happy memory etc. I am sure that Patrick used much of this public knowledge to narrow the list to the seven suspects.

This type of acalysis gets complicated if RJ is really just the leader of a consortium.
Which I think is probably the best guess. It explains why the finger
points in so many directions. In fact Brett might have been part of that
consortium. RJ took him out of the consortium because he was afraid of Brett Partridge (a bird). (RJ is afraid of birds).

I've got to go with Bertram as the leader, the true RJ (or at least a member of the consosrtium), because he basically says so to Jane. “When you get Red John in your sights I’ll be there”

In “Black winged Redbird” Bertram say an interesting line – “When
you get Red John in your sights I’ll be there”. If this is true then
Bertram must be Red John. He didn't say "Ill have your back". or "I want to be there". No, he very plainly said "I'll be there." The only way he can know this is if he is RJ.

Following Rosalind Harkers description, she wasn't blind all her life thats why she knows how RJ looks like, I say the last time she saw his face was 10 years ago then she went blind, Gale Bertram could've suffered from Male pattern baldness in those 10 years so I think its him.

Did anyone find the scene where the doctor interrupted Jane and Lisbon odd? Who is Carmen Lee? I can't imagine that was just a coincidence.

I have thought it was Bertram for awhile, but I am actually posting a question.  A season or two back when Red John kidnapped Patrick Jane and Jane was strapped to a chair at the end of the show (may have been the end of the season, I cannot remember) Red John said something to Jane about knowing who he was and Jane said yes.  Am I remembering this right?

I just needed to clear something up....red john could've very easily been talking to Patrick on speaker phone at the end of the premiere...that's all.