I would like to think that it might be Dean Harken because he fits the description - red haired, short, above 30 years and has a ring on his hand indicating he might be "MARried". One strange coincidence is that he has red hair and the name Roy means Red haired and Jane has him in his list too. Nobody might suspect him as he appears only in one episode.
Robert Kirkland.
First appears in the 100th episode - at the end of the episode, directing an FBI agent to call Minelli, warning him about Patrick and asking for regular updates about the Red John case.
In If It Bleeds, It Leads, he meets Patrick and Lisbon for the first time. The mispronounciation of Lisbon seemed deliberate, as if he was trying to conceal having followed her team for years. Bumping into Jane was definitely deliberate - I suspect he may have slipped something into Jane's pocket or taken something out, its was a classic pickpocket maneuver, or maybe just engineered for them to 'meet'. He says 'sorry Mr Jane', Jane says, 'do I know you?' and "Bob" responds with, "No, but I know you" as they shake hands. He also matches what we know of the physical description of Red John.
He's in another episode too but that hasn't been shown here yet.
I suspect ultimately he wont turn out to be Red John, the way he's been presented is too obvious but I think we're supposed to believe for now that he's Red John. He may turn out to be the Red John associate of the season.
Bruno Heller said that Red John isn't going to be some mid-range actor. IMO at this point, it could only be Brett Stiles, unless he means its going to be some unknown actor.
I think Red John is... Patrick Jane.
He is a psycho serial killer, and he suffers from split personality.
The killer is inside his head...
Officer O'Donnell
serial 3, episode 20
1. uniform
2. handsshake
3. Patrick could not hypnotize him
Let's take a look at some of the color symbolism in The Mentalist regarding RJ.
RJ's main color is obviously red with the smiley faces but his secondary color is yellow - remember the yellow flowers left with the naked corpse and at Dr. Morning's office where Hicks was found dead in His Right Red Hand. If RJ has another color, it's orange. Tigers are orange and RJ is the tiger in William Blake's poem.
Recall that RJ has been known as Roy. It could be that he chose that name as a stand in for the colors Red, Orange, Yellow - ROY. If RJ claims the first three colors of the visible spectrum, that leaves Jane with GBIV - green, blue, indigo, and violet. I would say that Jane is blue and Lisbon might be green. I won't even try to guess what colors the rest of the team is.
Color is definitely important. Take Lorelei for example: when we first met her, she was wearing bright red but the last we saw of her in Red Sails in the Sunset, she was wearing a nice yellow dress. Lorelei is moving closer to Jane's colors in the visible light spectum as he lures her away from RJ. It would be interesting if she ended up wearing green/blue when she finally chooses to help Jane.
And as far as the suspects go, Mashburn is the only one that is constantly surrounded by the colors yellow and red.
When Jared Renfrew is killed in the Mexico motel, the whole team is in the office. So, it cannot be Cho, Van Pelt, Lisbon, Minelli or Rigsby. And Red John always needs to be a two steps ahead of Jane and he needs to be in control. So, he wouldn't Jane to hypnotize him. Minelli is hypnotized by Jane to stop smoking. Lisbon is hypnotized to find out the reason for her blackout. Rigsby is hypnotized on S0118. Cho had a gang life in his past and Van Pelt believes Jane is psychic. But Red John doesn't believe he is a Psychic. He thinks Jane is a fake.
I Accuse: Patrick Jane's Father
1. We do not know what happened to him. Is he alive or dead?
2. How did he react to Patrick running away from his carny life? i.e with his meal ticket gone for good how did he feel really?
3. He liked to make money using his son. He is mean, greedy and has no empathy(mark of a sadistic serial killer). Per S0303, Patrick ran away with his wife and left the carny life. But later Patrick makes helluva lot of money and may be that pissed his father off because he isn't able to be a part of that rich Jane's life.
4. Lorelei says he is more like Jane. So, this can mean either his father or Jane himself (It cannot be jane as she also states she wonders why he and Red John did not become friends the day they shook their hand and Jane has met him.
5. As pointed out by the other user ASM89, I agree with the Tiger Tiger reference and with RJ being a showman.
I think its tom folker
in a recent episode lorilie said that red john isnt a friend to patrick. she said that she knew that when they didnt go along when they shook hands.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUhkJLaWMEU
this is a video, in a part of it patrick speak to the media, he does say to the guy on the show a description close to red john's one. brown hair...etc
sorry about bad spelling, my english isnt that great.
