I think I more then one -red john.

How can Lorelei be alive if we saw her fucking body in 5x16 ? use your fucking head guys

How can Lorelei be alive if we saw her fucking body in 5x16 ? use your fucking head guys

This isn't a theory; it's musing...

Key unanswered questions, in my opinion:

If the 1988 killing at the Visualize farm was the work of the same person as the Red John killings since 1998, why were there apparently no killings for ten years?  Was he in prison?  In the military?  In law enforcement training and/or rising through the law enforcement ranks?  Serial killers typically don't just take ten years off.  Why did RJ?  Or did he?  Could the 1988 killing have been his inspiration rather than his handiwork?

What's the deal with Lorelei's bullet wound and her appearance in the list of suspects video?  Something there doesn't add up, and the simplest way to resolve the conflicts is to assume that she's not really dead.  If the video was actually shot much later (with a living Lorelei), it would explain how RJ supposedly got the list before PJ made it.  Namely, he didn't; it was a trick, just like PJ said.  The list was stolen from Jane's office while he slept, the video was made the same night, and given to Jane the next morning.

Why did PJ's daughter (in his hallucinations in "Devil's Cherry") ask him "Does anyone know who you are?"  She could have just meant "Has anyone come to understand you and know the real you?", but somehow I don't think so. The wording seems off for that...

Lastly -- and most importantly -- there clearly seems to be a mole (knowingly or not) who is providing RJ with an enormous amount of info on happenings at the CBI.  And I don't mean Bertram, because it includes even minor day-to-day stuff, and often gets to RJ literally within minutes. So is RJ himself a CBI member, or does he have an accomplice (again, willingly or not) within the team?  It seems like he must...

Partridge - pard tiger ---> part-tiger, tiger's partner?
pard - archaic form of leopard - from Greek "pardos" - male panther


"The panther is a gentle beast; only the dragon is its enemy."

"The panther (pantera) takes its name from the Greek word for "all" (pan), because the panther is the friend of all beasts other than the dragon."

"Panthers are light-colored but have small spots like eyes. Their wonderful smell attracts all four-footed creatures, but the savagery of their heads frightens the creatures away. Therefore, to catch prey, panthers hide their heads as their smell attracts the prey animals within reach. Some people say that panthers have a mark on their shoulder that resembles a crescent moon."

Is Red John a panther?

(Pan)Ter-esa? It's All about Teresa?

Who is FBI Agent Denyer???
 
He gets top billing on IMDB cast list for episode 7 & 8.

Red john?

Just a thought.

Lets examine what took place in the last episode of season 5. What happened there very much sets in motion what will happen in season 6, the last season.At the begining of the episode Jane tells Lisbon he's that close to having a breakthrough and that he has narrowed the list of suspects to 7. He has to sleep before telling her because he's tired. He says that he made a list of seven based on who could be at all the crime scenes.So at this last episode we have the murder of Jane's happy memory. Also at the end of the episode RJ anounces Jane's list before Jane can do it himself. The above 2 are the major reason why Lisbon and Jane are so freaked up! At episode 6x01 Jane says about RJ guessing his list that "it's a trick","what do you mean?", "I don't know" says Jane! OK I beleave that both the list and the happy memory are a trick by RJ. What do I mean:We all know by now that RJ has the resources to find out about the Jane's past. That is where he lived. So he can find many of the persons that lived where Jane lived in the past. So he can study the ages of those person then and now. Here RJ makes a safe guess. Not a lucky guess but a safe one. It's like cheeting realy. He chooses a baby girl from his past, finds her today and kills her. The baby girl from where Jane used to live is a given! She can't but be a good memory for Jane, (as it would be for every one of us!) So here RJ used one of the cheep tricks that Jane used to his victims as a con man. That is guessing the obvious and presenting it in a way that makes it big deal. There is no better way to make it big deal than murder!So the list. Where is RJ trick? Lets first examine the facts about the list. Lets say there is RJ's list and Jane's list and lets try to find a way to make the two lists to coinside.Stills, McAllister and Partridge are on the lists. Jane never shook hands with any of them. At least I never saw that. If you have please point me to the episode. So Jane didn't put them in his list because of what Martins said to him about the handshake. He could have picked them  because of what he says at begining of last episode of season 5. In the video we have: "Lorelay told me she told about the handsake" also "By now you must have norrowed your list to a number of seven". So both RJ and Jane have included in their lists persons he never shook hands with! Something is realy off here. So the only way RJ can guess Jane's list is by his smarts. He has to calculate what Jane will calculate. So Jane make a list of those that could be at all the crime scenes. How can he possibly do that, without even the help of his team or the CBI. We are talking about a huge amount of detail about the whereabout of tens of people! It's imposible. So I don't think that the lists where compiled by any of the ways that are sugesting in the show. My theory is that RJ made his list 2 months before (Lisbon says that) with 7 people that only he knows why. Jane on the other hand made his list the last days, that is long after RJ made his! So we don't realy have RJ  guessing Jane's list. We rather have Jane guessing RJ's list! What are the chances of that happening using logic and method? None. OK I'll tell you what I think happened here after a break...
Episode 1x1 the pilot. Jane is on a show. The host asks him about helping the police to find the serial murderer RJ using his psychic powers! There Jane insults RJ. Next thing, his family dead. Jane has a breakdown. When he comes back he is against psychics and he claims he once was con man and psychics don't exist. He claims to be solving cases only by skills and by studying the people. Episode 5x2 Jane under the effect of belladona is talking to his dead daughter. This is our only chanse to listen to his subconsious! So he's straped on a hospital bed and talks to his daughter by his side. They say a lot of beutifull things. Sudently out of nowhere she asks: "does anyone know who you are?" - "Yes" - "who?" - " -- " - "come on who?" Jane doesn't want to talk to her anymore he close his eyes and starts calling Lisbon to wake up. Who is Jane?!?! What! Is Jane RJ. Is that his secret? I don't think so. What is his secret? Jane constantly denies that he is psychic. That he has such powers and propably doesn't use them anymore. What do you think? It's a posibility. Else we have to find an other answer on the question "Does anyone know who you are?"
back to the lists...
So RJ plays an other trick here. A good one this time. He makes a list of seven. He knows Jane shook hands with many. He can't norrow the list enough. He will get desperate and use his powers to guess the list RJ made! Jane will freak out when he watches the video!
This is the only explanation that I can give to the guessing of the list right now! Jane guessed the list, not RJ.