Who is Red John?

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McAllister found the Red Barn (operated by Visualize), and he kills most of the members.  Two survived the Red Barn, but one was killed - in a struggle.  I suspect two people were "die-hard" Visualize members, and the other two didn't care.  The one that is left could be Haffner or Smith, but is most likely involved in law enforcement.  McAllister could be Lisbon's uncle (her mother's brother), and he set out to kill Brett Stiles.  Jane crossed him, when he publicly sought to capture him.  Red John wants to stay free, and he wants retribution.  Red John thinks his murders are for a good cause.  It is just like the season opener, when Dr. Wagner kills someone to provide money for African children suffering.  Wagner framed Red John.  Jane is allowed to live, since his wife & daughter were executed.  His survival is humilation, because Red John believes Jane needed to be punished.  Red John sees Jane's vanity as his weakness.  However, Jane was raised as a Carnie, so he can only be vain.  Red John merely drives Jane to be more vain, eventually.  Jane worked for Lisbon, and he closed cases.  Red John was planning on killing Jane, if he didn't close cases for Lisbon.  Lisbon is the key to his survival.  McAllister said he was sorry, but he wanted to tell Jane that Lisbon is the person helping him.  Those people (in the FBI) that help Red John, they are helping Lisbon be covered by any "blow back" from the Red John leaks.  She didn't intend to help Red John, but she used MCAllister as a crutch.  He is her family.  Red John took an apprentice with him, after Red Barn.  The apprentice is still out there.  In fact, the apprentice could be Lisbon.  McAllister could have used her to get closer to Stiles, but he got to the farm. Perhaps, she was raped by Visualize members (instead of the dead mother theory) - on the farm.  She fought back, and she killed the first Red John victims.  Red John is someone who will take responsibility for what happened.  She cant say what happened.  Local law enforcement knows about it, but they wont say.  Stiles wants them to stay quiet.  They keep all the evidence, in case stiles breaks his promise.  His promise to make up for his indiscretion.  He doesn't want any bad publicity, so he helps every cop that knows about the drugging.  Most of the evidence is circumstantial without the victims testimony and the police reports.  They say it was Red John, and nobody looks at Lisbon or whoever killed those people.  Either way Visualize & Red John crossed paths - in the Red Barn.  It was Red John's supposed first time killing.

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Reede shortened to Red, for when he was on the visualize farm.  He wanted to be called Red.  John just like smith means regular bloke.  He claims to be a low man on the totem pole, but he is higher ranking than McAllister.  He can tell MCAllister what to do.  In an interview with a judge present, he flipped out at Jane.  He wanted to just get rid of Jane, because he is Jane's antagonist.  Reede Smith created Red John with the first murders @ the Red Barn - on the visualize farm.  He got visualize to help him cover the murders up; he sold himself into Stiles' debt.  As payback, Stiles orders other members to force McAllister to cover up the mistake Reede Smith has made.  McAllister is the cleaner for Stiles' mafia.  As an officer, he was able to protect himself by finding out information that only police knew.  He uses what they know to create the perfect patsy.  His temper is what makes him really guilty looking.

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Thomas McAllister is old enough to be located in police position around the time of Red Barn.  He is related to the true leader of Visualize.  McAllister is either the son of Visualize's former leader or another type of relation.  He decided to start killing Visualize members to test himself.  He may have covered for the ex-leader (executed) of visualize (if he is not it) by showing up to help make it go away.  He may have taken the blame for the killings, and he could be covering his tracks or someone he cares about.  Robert Kirkland was onto Visualize as a Red John associate, and he ended up going crazy.  He killed people, because he thought they knew who red john is.  What he was trying to do was find his brother who he believes joined Visualize.  Brett Stiles supposedly had the sheriff investigating Timothy Farragut's (original Visualize guru) death executed, because it was staged to look like an accident.  Lisbon's mom was killed by a drunk driver, and Timothy Farragut's (ex leader of Visualize) fatal accident involved alcohol.  There is a small chance that those two are related.  However, Farragut's death was ruled an accident.  Somebody wanted retribution for Stiles executions.  Red John is possibly someone struggling against Visualize.  Jane offers Red John a chance to kill Stiles, but he must be sacrificed - or there is no deal.  Jane can make it happen, but Red John has to die for killing his wife and daughter.

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Although Harker Rosalind said Roy had straight hair, she left out balding.  It sounded like Red John had a full head of hair.  Vint Molinari has a full head of hair, and he looks six feet tall w/medium build.  I start to doubt her testimony.  I saw evidence that Red John was drinking from the same tea cup that Jane used, while visiting Harker Rosalind.  Harker remained friends with Red John - which leads us nowhere.
     (Dr. Linus Wagner) Truly, if he wanted to get caught as red john he would put the smiley face in the right spot. If he was red john and was doing a killing maybe he thought he would get caught, so he fakes the red john killing - changing his MO. In that same respect, if he got tried for being red john and he wasn't found guilty, he could be exonerated for the murders of Red John; hence, he couldn't be tried as Red John.  The courts would have "slapped" him with all the cases at once.  They could disprove that Red John would kill that way, and leave mark that way.  A copycat Red John killing could happen, while he was in prison.  He could leave the prison, because he is friends with police.  Someone would secretly get him out.  He could then commit a Red John killing.  If he gets off the charges of being Red John, Jane could not kill him as Red John.  Jane would go to prison.  Dr. Linus wagner has Harker to testify that Linus Wagner isnt Roy Taggliaferro, and he is legally not Red John.  Jane wont have leverage with the police, when he kills the real red john.
I avoided Dr. Linus Wagner as Red John, but what do we know about Red John? I know I'm right, and you may disagree - McAllister was Red John. A conspiracy that could last another six seasons is closing the book on the Blake Association. Red John could have been hired by the Blake Association to kill Jane's family. He could be a patsy, someone to take the blame for the obvious mistakes they have made. Blake Association could be the creation of someone other than Sheriff McAllister, since he is just a patsy. Linus Wagner knew about red John (read about red john), yet he couldn't portray him correctly. That scene could have been orchestrated by Red John to see how good Jane really is, to see if he could spot the difference between truth & fiction - not good or evil. Its subtext seems to make a story arc for an antagonist (or anit-hero).

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Ellis Mars can be red John.  First clue Mars is the red planet. Second clue "He is Mar" written in blood by a red John victim that knew him personally.

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He could be Harker Rosalind's brother.  Harker could the little girl whose family was scammed by Jane's.  Dean Harken could be trying to track down Jane, and murder his family.  Harker rosalind could have became blind, because she was trying to get cured & Jane scammed her.  Harker Rosalind might be her real name, and Dean Harken changed his last name.  He is working for a security firm, so he could probably have friends in the FBI as well as the CBI.  The clue He is Mar . . . could have been HAR for Harken.

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