Red Herrings..
I have watched a lot of crime tv series and trust me, the most important persons are 99% portrayed and showed to the viewers in the first season. There is just no guarantee that the show is not going to be cancelled. Look at FlashForward, great show but they had to let the viewers to see the bad guy at least once. Boom sadly show got cancelled. At least we knew who did it.

Let's not get too much excited to the Red Herrings(uhum Ray Hafner and that little ghoul) in the show, just like there were a lot of red herrings in every episode of Scooby Doo.
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Let's think logical..
There were two suspects of today's list in the first season, or I can rather say in the first two episodes.

Brett Partridge and Sheriff Thomas McAllister. One is probably dead killed by the other.
Brett Partridge even said TygerTyger to Teresa, probably because Sheriff Thomas McAllister said it to Brett before he got killed just like in the season 2 finale. And now we have made the connection to the three dots.

The one thing that really caught my eye were his SHOES. He has those classy shoes I saw in the season 2 final.
In episode 3 he even said to Patrick in the woods he likes to hunt 'faces' and he even called Patrick with his cell phone and started "Hey Patrick" with that soft old voice this time without a voice changer.
As they say in the game Phoenix Wright...

TAKE THAT

Sheriff Thomas McAllister is Red John.

I rest my case.


PS: a funny thing if you type Partridge in wikipedia you will see an explanation about a bird who avoids high places. lol