IMPORTANT!! Chapter 2x2 Look observe the name of the psychiatrist who works for the CBI serving Lisbon after the incident in the old cottage that kills jane official!

I'm not accusing anyone of being red john. I'm just going to eliminate suspects that simply can't be him.



First the list most likely totally bogus, but still let's study the suspects anyway: 

Haffner, Bertram and McAllister have all been outsmarted by Patrick, so I doubt any of them can be RJ.

Plus Bertram and O'laughlin each had been given a different room number in Strawberries and Cream. Wouldn't RJ have suspected something and not sent his killer? Same goes for Osvaldo Ardiles, Brenda Shettrick, Hightower and LaRoche.

Kirkland. Think about it, when Lorelei told Patrick that he and RJ shook hands he hadn't even met Kirkland. Also when Kirkland killed Jason Lennon, Lennon didn't recognize him. He would have if he was RJ and even if he didn't recognize him I just don't see a reason to kill him. 

Partridge is dead.

Smith would've been 12 in 1988 so I don't see how he could've killed and tortured two people and Stiles was 45 and too old to have been the 'kid' seen painting the face.

Also I doubt anyone from the list is related to one another especially not the two Brets. And if someone simply has red hair it does not incriminate him. 

Red John is not Jane and its not a group of people that would be impossible I'm not even going to go into this. 



It can't be Cho, Rigsby, Van Pelt, or Lisbon because in Crimson Hat they were all together during Patrick's conversation with RJ and surrounded by the FBI it would've been impossible for them to communicate with Patrick without anyone noticing. Same goes for Darcy.

I'm starting to feel that Cbi Ron is a red herring. Too much attention is being drawn to him.
I think the way the show works is the murderer is most often the person no one would suspect because they were never treated as a suspect. They were always just there. And the show has been shoving him in our faces lately. There's no concrete proof as why it can't be him. It would certainly be interesting. 

Hy, first time posting, and not a theory, i have millions of theories
but none conclusive so I will keep them to myself for the time being.



Back
to the facts I want to lay down:



-William
Blake,  is clearly the
only rock solid clue that we have in almost all
seasons, and the only one given to us by Red John Himself willingly 



The Poem:



The
tiger, tiger poem, from which we can obtain , after we read it of course, the
first clue into the mind of red john, the poem is an artistic way of presenting
William blakes set of believes about the world, the central theme is Evil,( the tiger) the poem consist of 6 stanzas, and all the
lines except one , are questions to the tiger , who created the tiger?  where it was created ? how it was formed ? who make
the lamb also made the tiger? The only line that’s not a question is the one
that says Tiger Tiger Burning Bright in the forest of the night.



The
first clue, good and evil, antagonists created by the same hand, contraries
that don’t exclude each other but rather need each other to progress, to go further,
to grow.



Once
we are presented with the poem, we must take a look at William Blake, as the poem is only a mere pointer
to the clue that is the writer.



-William Blakes and his
believes:



(I
will not write about his life, and work but mostly reference bit and pieces in
particular if you want a quick idea of the man you can wiki him)



Across
his writing and art, Blake lay down his thoughts about, man, religion, and his
spiritual believes as well as marriage and sex (he was one of the first writers
part of the first free love movement back in the 19th century)



-The
body is an extension of the soul, a part of it.

-Obedience
to a moral code imposed from the outside of man is against the spirit of life

-I
must Create a System, or be enslaved by another Man's

-He is
the only god, so am I, and so are you (the marriage of heaven and hell)

-Rejects
received ideas, systems, authorities and traditions.



-The
Great Red Dragon (From The revelations Book of john AKA John of atmos, John the
revelator)



John
means  = God is Gracious/Benevolent



Red
means= Blood/Fire



RED
JOHN= The Gracious God of Blood and Fire. = Satan/Beelzebub in revelations =The Great Red Dragon



The
Great Red Dragon is a series of paintings created but Blake between 1805 and
1810, 4 of them to be exact that show the red dragon waiting to consume the
child of the lady clothed with and in sun,show the dragon itself and present
him as the beast (the devil).



-The Marriage of heaven and
hell:

Probably
the most relevant piece to understand Blake set of believes and there for clues
into RED JOHN mind.



In The
Marriage of Heaven and hell Blake explains that, without Contraries is no
progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are
necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious
call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy.

Good
being Heaven/Reason/Love/Attraction. Evil being  Hell/Energy/Hate/Repulsion.



Blake's
theory of contraries was not a belief in opposites but rather a belief that
each person reflects the contrary nature of God, and that progression in life is impossible without
contraries. Moreover he
explores the contrary nature of reason and of energy, believing that two types
of people existed: the energetic creators and the  rational
organizers , or, as he calls them in The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell, the  devils" and  angels. Both are necessary with out contraries  is no progression.

Innocence
and experience (theme that he explores in his book Songs of Innocence and experience, as two
states of the human soul)



With
out one the other cannot be and vice versa, they need each other to have
meaning within themselves.



I Hope
this helps develop or better theories, I think we need to match the whole
picture taking the hints for what they are but not building theories around
them.



Can
wait for next episode, thanks for reading and I apologize if I misspelled any
word, English is not my native language.

Bruno Heller confirmed that the meeting between Bertram smith and Mcallister has nothing to do with red john and it's related to the plot after the red john chapter ends which is related to law corruption and the two new regulars will have an important role to play in it. http://www.spoilersguide.com/the-mentalist/spoilers-what-you-should-know-about-bertram-mccallister-and-smiths-meeting/

Regarding the bird phobia RJ may have which stopped him from killing Lisbon, I would be pretty disappointed if that were the case. With the mental capabilities exhibited by RJ I personally would be shocked if he has a major phobia of a nature that would impede his ability to carry out whatever his plans may be (including killing Teresa). Here we have this ultimate badass with superior mental abilities and he is incapable of overcoming a phobia that would affect everything he does? (birds are everywhere).

I know they hinted at the possibility but I believe not killing Teresa was part of the plan and the birds are just a red herring.

Digression! 

Just a thought:  I very much appreciate all the people who take the time to post their ideas and share my interest in this show.  But please!  For all who are not native English speakers, please do NOT apologize for any flaws in your English!

I speak only English and am very much in debt to those to bother to learn the language and grapple with its many quirks.  I tutor English to US students and -- having borrowed from so many other languages -- it is horribly inconsistent.  Alas, many people for whom English is their first language have problems with it.

Thank you, thank you for sharing your ideas.  The ideas are what's important!

 I mean seriously, this is gonna be tough.
Red John=The 7. All of them, Copreating.
Unless it's someone's related to Jane that we do not know about.
Imo it's either bunch of people from the list.
either the list is fake, and it's gonna be one of the agents from the CBI we will not expect it anyway.