Here is my theory...

First of all , Sheriff Thomas Mccalister is someone fits descriptions , more than that ,
He seems to be the most clever from the suspects ( You can check out S06E03 ,he analyzes the dead body exactly alike Jane). 
He has the fear of Pidgeons , i think it's clue , almost in each episode on season 6 , we see pidgeons,  Just Thoughts...

Now , we move forward for the Clue...

Moments before the explosion , three suspects was in a side of the house , jane in the middle and the two others in the other side , Haffner , stiles got killed by the bomb , Jane got injured, smith and Bertram had very low injures , but Mccalister why is concidered dead!!!

The Only solution, if he hadn't got shooted by Jane, is he fakes his death. He moves somewhere and when he will know that Jane told medias that Gale bertram is Red John , he will appear and try to meet Jane to show him that He is the real Red john, and that he hates copycats.

i still hope it is mashburn. not only a hope, he would fit in the profile that we have created from the info we got.

i still think it is mcallister. he fits very well.

but let´s go back to the name of judge manchester. since the promo he is my short list of suspects. maybe he is not the big fish but strongly related to red john hehe.

by the way, for you non european folks. manchester is a city in gb! they have a very famous football club - manchaster united. their color is red. and they are also called the red devils!!! so would fit right hehe

until we reveal the real red john. let´s play a game. feel free 2 join, many already did!

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Now many will criticize this theory and while i can understand the skepticism, as well as the doubts in the logic i will use, just bear with me and in the end honestly tell me this is not possible. 

Patrick Jane's is the one and original Red John. 

In the pilot episode, Jane was on television claiming with a smirk that R.J is a sad, lonely little man and in reality Jane is the one and the same. He killed his wife because she figured out he was behind the recent killings of the 8 women and in the adrenaline rush he killed his daughter. His only way out is to portray another of Red John killings.

 Television show or not, police do not use a television psychic to find serial killers so i assume Jane made himself part of the investigation by offering his services and that's how he prevented himself from ever getting caught. However, the traumatic expierence of it all caused a severe mental breakdown or possibly a coma in which Jane remains in today.


 The character's we see in the show are likely members of the audience during his shows, medical personnel when he was found, as well as reporters, detectives etc during the R.J investigation.

Jane paints this RED JOHN villain as some unknown person whom while he claims to hate and want to kill him, is amused and fascinated at the same time. I know if someone killed my wife, i would never smile and laugh at anything the man that killed her did.

It's funny how when all the people associated with Red John begin to tell Jane about R.J they end up dieing, decide not to tell him, or give him a half-baked clue which he takes off and running with (lorelei in season 5).

Ever notice how many near-death expierences Jane has yet never gets killed or maimed? Sure he has been shot, went blind for a day, survived an explosion but a trained homeland security agent gets put down like a dog? 

Also, every time Jane gets closer or starts to delve into too many consequitive cases not involving R.J , the killer himself finds away to attract Jane's focus ?

I would like to point out his unnatural ability to manipulate people into doing what he wants (a power claimed to be possessed by R.J as well)

He wears the same outfits, and for most of the show he would be seen going home and sleeping in the very room his wife and child were murdered.

Jane wins 300,000 dollars at a casino and just gives it away? The man who was once so money hungry he would lie to clients and scam them for money? 

I think there is a chance at the end of the season that he could possibly wake up and confess to killing those women.  

Not likely the true outcome but hey the identity gets revealed this sunday , might as well have fun with it. 

If you didnt watch it yet:


EXTENDED PROMO 00:30 Sec.

http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/11/the-mentalist-episode-608-red-john_18.html

Cheers Folks!

when loreli read the letter from redjohn there was a part were he wrote till u catch me or i catch u, then said he was going to start killing again and more often starting with a happy memory.i thought why would he say till i catch you, he could kill jane anytime. the happy memory lead jane to his his physciatrist and the clue to the catch u line,might have been the fear of of heights she commented on.then  mcallister saved jane on the roof which could  be looked at as catching him

I did not want it to be McAllister, and I'm not necessarily convinced from the promo shots that he is 100% Red John...but Reede Smith said that Red John is a member of Tyger Tyger right? So that means that he MUST have that tattoo, which leaves us with the three suspects Bertram, Smith, and McAllister. Smith, I'm sure is not Red John...so that leaves Bertram and McAllister..it's one of the two. Unless Red John does not have the Tyger Tyger tattoo of course......I hope nobody has brought this up yet, or else sorry =P. Can't wait for the reveal though!

The wine locker rental Bertram enters was under the name of "Mr. Thomas."  It was filled with wine. 

Thomas McAllister is the Sheriff of Napa County, the heart of wine country.

Sounds like McAllister could very well end up being Red John.  In addition, if he brought a bomb to Jane's house, Red John would likely use the chaos to fake his own death as part of his plan.

I hate to say it, but after his creepy effort to get Van Pelt into his car in the second episode of this show, Sheriff McAllister may well turn out to be Red John.