I've been reading a lot of theories about Brett Partridge being Red John and faking his own death to remove himself from the list of seven suspects.

I think that logically it doesn't make sense, because firstly Lisbon heard a noise from outside the house for her to actually want to enter the house. There are no coincidences, so even the little noises are planned. So as partridge was bleeding when Lisbon got to him, wouldn't you think that there would be a trail of blood from the front door of the house and the cupboard in which he was residing? Or do you genuinely think that Partridge had enough time when Lisbon was searching for him in that house, to run back to the cupboard and then apply fake blood all over his body and possibly tie himself up? And to do this in perfect silence?

Secondly, I agree that the knife that RJ was holding in the final scene could be a knife that Partridge uses for his work and did anyone think to believe that his knife doesn't actually belong to RJ?

However, I believe that Patridge is an accomplice and maybe to remove himself from the list he asked RJ to do so, or RJ plans to eliminate them all. I think that All seven suspects are aware that they are on the list as most of them are probably accomplices of RJ.

One thing that confuses me is the list itself, because if Partridge is not actually RJ then Lisbon would have seen another person on the list at the house using the GPS tracking system, but none of them were, which therefore leads me to believe that Partidge is RJ himself or RJ is not one of the 7 on the list.

Please tell me what you guys think