So Americ from Happy Cool posted a very good theory about Red John entitled "The Handshake Theory".  In this theory, he points out the handshake had to have been onscreen.  Otherwise, why even bring it up?  I believe this is true.  Sure he could shaken hands with some of the suspects off screen, but would that really be very good story telling?  I don't think so.

So Americ goes through the list systematically to see who Jane shook hands with onscreen.

Brett Stiles- did not shake hands
Brett Partridge-did not shake hands
Reede Smith- did not shake hands
Ray Haffner- they shook hands
Gale Bertram- they shook hands
Bob Kirkland- they shook hands
Sheriff Mcallister- they did not shake hands

So Bob is dead, and Gale doesn't fit the physical description.  Thus leaving Ray Haffner.

BUT

Here's the rub.  We HAVE seen Jane and the Sheriff shake hands... just not in the traditional sense.
They're very first scene together, they play a long game of rock, paper, scissors and Jane keeps winning over and over again...  What do you do every time you play this game?  You shake your hand three times before revealing either rock, paper or scissors.   Thus, Sheriff and Jane "shook hands" the first time they met, just not with each others' hand.  :)  It's a very iconic scene from the first season.  Take a look at the first part of this video to watch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_Oc5wOeWw

Guys it physically can't be Bertram!  How are people still on this?  He is 6ft 3 and bald which flies in the face of Rosalind's description.  "Under six feet.  Short, straight hair."  Jane COMPLETELY believes that Rosalind's Roy is Red John.  He even took her to the morgue in season 4 to confirm the man he shot in the cafe WASN'T Red John.  Ere go, he trusts her account of Roy as if it were gospel.  Could Bertram wear a wig?  Perhaps but unlikely.  However what is far more unlikely is that he can't cut 4 inches off of his height when he's with Rosalind.  Plus Bertram is a public official who spends waaaayyy too much time in front of the camera.  He would have been easily noticed by Sophie Miller who would in turn probably ask what Jane's boss is doing here.  She would've known right away something was up.  Plus the director of the CBI probably has zero time to go around killing people.  That kind of job requires far too much time at the office and in front of the camera.  A Sheriff of one county is a well-respected official with many friends and quite a bit more freedom to go where he pleases.

Sheriff Mcallister is both marked and a marshall (the whole he is mar thing), fits the height, fits the build "not thin, but not muscular", he loves to hunt/kill as he informed to Jane.  Tom asks Patrick to call him "Tom" because he wants to build a relationship with Patrick, wants to befriend him, as we've seen Red John do with sending him Lorelei  "He's offering the hand of friendship".  In regards to his hair, he had much more 6 years ago when he was cast so Rosalind would have called it "short and straight".

On a side note, some people mention that we never see them physically shake hands... but we do.  In they're very first scene together, they play rock paper scissors, within which you "shake" hands multiple times... :)

Jane: What do you hung?
Tom:  Anything with a face... 

It's not him because Bred Styles knows who RJ is. That I'm sure of.
And in Fire and Brimstone Bred Styles 'saves' him from beeing shot by Jane,
because he knows he isn't Red John and doesn't want an innocent one beeing shot.
If he was RJ I think Styles wouldn't try to stop Jane.

He does look like the sheriff, doesn't he?
Looking at this picture and if this boy is really the young Red John, I think he can only be McAllister.




http://postimg.org/image/v7yat25cl/

sexy Van Pelt can't be redjhon because she is too sexy to be

I just re-watched the episode "Red Wedding".  Not one of my favorites this year.  However, Jane has a very interesting conversation with Sheriff Mcallister.  He sneaks up on Patrick to which Jane says he didn't hear him coming.  The Sheriff then replies, "Well it's an old habit.  I've been a hunter most of my life."  "What do you hunt? Jane asks.  "Anything with a face..."  Patrick then points out that hunting requires quite a blood lust.  From this conversation alone, I am really starting to think it's Mcallister.  He enjoys killing.  Also, he mentions he's been a hunter most of his life.  Perhaps he started killing in 1988 at the Visualize farm?  

The Sheriff is also middle-aged but in good health, as Sophie Miller notes.  He's got the most calm and self-assured posture like Sophie describes.  When he was cast in season one, Xander Berkley had a bit more hair which was "short and straight" as Rosalind describes.  He's under six feet, not muscular but not thin.  Whether He Is Mar means He Is Marked or He Is Marhsall, again he fits.  Lastly, he's the only one who really seems to want to befriend Patrick.  I mean, he even says, he's at Patrick's disposal anytime.  He even asks him to call him "Tom".  All this coupled with a taste for blood has suddenly put him in the forefront to me.

Plus I re-watched his first episode, "Red Hair-Silver tape".  He was pretty creepy from the get go.  He almost forced Van Pelt into his car to the point the team thought he was the killer.  If the tattoo thing is legit, and the list is truly legit, then "Tom" just might be our guy!

Will the episode 7 be available this week ?