ever since season 5 finale I have convinced myself that Partridge cannot be red john but I have some doubt now. I thought its too easy. I have watched the last scene of the premiere 3 times. At first i thought red john was behind lisbon. But i dont think there was anyone else in the house. I believe partridge was the one who attacked lisbon. We were lead to believe he is dead.

What if ALL the seven suspects are Red John, and they have always worked together to make one single killer!

Not a guess about Red John, but some observations:

1.  Why did Cho come in from outside the diner several minutes after Van Pelt , Rigsby, and Jane.  This is very suspicious to me. I would hate for Cho to be involved with Red John, but this really struck me as odd behavior,

2.  That is the first time I've really noticed CBI Ron talking in the show.  Who was he on his cell phone with?

I think Red John is .......... Patrick Jane. Yes, i really think is Patrick Jane. he sufferes from double personality, and this is how he is every time with a step ahead. This explain the fact he knows exactly the list. And the phone-calls are made by a compter-program or by an associate of RJ

First, I hate long and boring theories, so I`ll try to be as
brief as possible.

For me, there are TWO possible theories:

1.      
The first one, which is insane and complicated
(but which, I confess, would satisfy me more) is that all this  7-suspects-list and Brett Partridge`s death are
bullshit, which means that Jane has some brilliant plan in mind and keeps the
REAL RED JOHN for himself. I mean, come on, doesn`t he always say “RED JOHN IS
MINE”? “MINE”, not Lisbon`s or, even worse, Van Pelt`s or the team`s. I mean,
Jane isn`t that stupid to make such a mistake by telling Lisbon the names,
knowing that she would probably want to put the suspects under surveillance. So
I think he orchestrated this intentionnaly, so this way HE will mislead Red
John, and not the opposite. Further than this I won`t go for the moment,
because if RJ isn`t one of the seven, I don`t know who he could be. Mashburn?
Maybe. But even better, what if RJ is one of the CBI team members? Maybe…Rigsby?
If Jane planned this, it means that HE wanted CHO, VAN PELT and RIGSBY to know.
Why then? I`ll continue this theory after we`ll watch some other episodes of
the  6th season.

2.      
The second one is strictly based on Bruno
Heller`s statements. In the second one I choose to believe them and to go with
the story. To think that there is no mislead and that there where  suspects, and now they`re 6. And one of them
is Red John. In this case, I have to confess that I am really disappointed because
my money were from the beginning on Brett Partridge who fits perfectly. But,
like I said, I will go with the story.

If Red John is one of the 6, and Patrick
was honest with Teresa and told her the names because he wanted help, and then
Lisbon called Van Pelt for the same reason, then this is pretty messed up. I
have always imagined Red John as a charming men, very resemblant to Jane. I
always thought they`re almost the same age, they`re both clever and precise,
manipulative and charismatic. I don`t know why, but I can`t imagine an old man
being  Red John, because I want him to be
like another side of Patrick, a darker and distructive one. Not just a random
man. For some reason, in this scenario, I`d guess that RJ is McAllister; I have
no arguments yet, but I`m searching for them.

Ok, that was long. Sorry for that. 

Can anyone verify that Red John is actually one of the seven suspects from the list? Yes, there is a list. Yes, it is Jane's list. However, in order to answer my question I will need to re-watch old episodes. Does Red John in fact say that he is on the list? Or does he just acknowledge the existence of a list?  

In the Canada promo for episode 2, Jane says something along the lines of:  "I know something that RJ doesn't, he's killed two people within days now, he's getting desperate, a little crazy, he doesn't realize he's made a terrible mistake."

I think this is the clue that's the beginning of the list being revealed as a fake.  Jane's real list was the names shown in his notebook around midseason.  He spent the rest of season 5 subtly advertising a fake list to trap RJ.

What better way to get down to a more manageable suspect pool than by having Jane announce that the list is fake and he's narrowed his real list down to three people?

Most people on this site have decided to accept the list and perhaps I'm as delusional as the people that think Jane is RJ, but if I'm right that the list is a fake then I'd say I'm also likely to be right on my Walter Mashburn theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsPG_FW53Yw