My theory is that all the 8 person  ine RedJohn list on 5th season last episode are RedJohn disciples and maybe on of them is RedJohn. Maybenot. 

Bob kirkland is definitely disciple, the photograph he got from jane's room helped the RJ to figure out who are all on the list. this is already clear. he kills that other RJ disciple in hospital also. a work usually assigned disciples.

Gale bertram is already disciple because RJ is able to figure out what is happening inside CBI. there is not more better way than bertram to do this.

Ray Haffner is the guy who painted RJ smiley on the barn run by visualize. he is gonna start a new security agency. he is definitely one of the disciple. and one possible suspect of being RJ.

Reed Smith: This is a viable suspect for being RJ. because he appears not so many times before us and in many cases is being fooled by Jane. so I am not reading RJ or Jane here. I am reading Bruno here. I am expecting a double bluff by him here. because we all expect a non-famous guy as RJ. but I am thinking he will put popular guy as RJ. so i am crossing down reed as RJ. but definitely a disciple I guess.

Mcallister: This is a viable suspect for RJ, but only seen in one episode. more age than expected. I am expecting RJ to be same age as Jane. but over secrecy of mcallister make give him high rank to become RJ. I am keepping him as RJ suspect. 

Brett Partridge: He is also definitely a disciple of RJ but not definitely RJ. because in the first episode he identifies a non RJ murder as RJ murder and other one in second season. if he is RJ he will not be willing to give RJ trademark to other mans murder. RJ is highly sensitive like that lot of self pride. 

Bret Stiles: This is the highest ranking suspect for RJ in my view point. because RJ is same as Jane. a psychic capabilities may be more than Jane. Brett stiles can manipulate minds make disciples to follow his order stiles has shown this capabilities one or two times in other aspects also.  Jane at some point is tranced by stiles to know some of the secrets of Jane. like the murder in last episode. this is why he knows jane's secret. So bret stiles is the highest ranking suspect for being RJ.

So my Red John Suspects are in its ranking

Bret Stiles
Sheriff Mcallister
Ray Haffner

I did the theory 3206. For me, Janes wife was cheating on him and perhaps his child was not his daughter after all. He goes crazy, killed them both and manage to create a new identity to blame for the crimes. But lets forget Patrick and focus on the 7 suspects. Reede Smith and Bob Kirkland came too late in the game (season 5) for being Red John. Sheriff Mcallister is almost unknown and the reveal of him being Red John will have zero dramatic impact. Gale Bertan? Just because of the tea? Because hes a fisherman? Because he knows Blake? Cmon, I knewn the Tyger poem before the Mentalist and thats not make me the killer. Only because he share some tastes with the killer doesnt make him Red John. Brett Partrige? He doesnt have the web of influences, the conections and the money to be Red John. My bet is on Bret Stiles. Hes the leader of a religious cult we know for a fact Red Jonh in conected. Thats concrete evidence. Ok, Haffner is also linked to Visualize, but Stiles is fricking Malcolm Mcdowell. The guy worked with Kubrick. Played one of the best villains of the history of the cinema. Heller himself said if we open a door and a mid range actor was playing Red John was going to be disapointing. So, with Malcolm Mcdowell at his disposal, he will make Diamond Reed Red John? Or Jack Partrige Plotnick? Just my two cents here. Stiles is Red John.

If i could choose, Jane will be John. Thats a shocking, totally disturbing finale, with the main character that we follow for 5 years noUiw being the villain of the story. Of course, it will alienate the majority of the fans that wants a happy ending with Jane and Lisbon being toghether and Heller himself said Jane is not John. He couldnt be lying, right? RIGHT? Well, maybe hes just not telling the whole story. Maybe the list is legit and one of the 7 is Red Johns face. I mean, Red John needs a physical presence, to interact and brainwashed his followers. But maybe, Patrick is the mastermind behnd it all. Hes not Red John, but he created him and have someone else impersonating him. Too crazy? Maybe. Ill take Jane out of the picture in my next post and focus only on the 7 suspects. If i need to choose one of them, it have to be Bret Stiles.

I believe that Bret Stiles is the big guy. He's the one in charge, but overall, it isn't just Stiles. Raymond Haffner obviously works for Stiles. Lorelei's sister carved a name into the ground, which can be seen in the murder picture. The name says, "ROY." Roy perhaps could have been 'Ray,' only the 'A' was an 'O' because she was losing her mind-she was dying. Or, perhaps, Roy is another nickname for Robert (Bob) Kirkland. He knows quite a bit about Red John including the information he stole from Jane. Brett Partridge shows the most hatred/anger towards Jane though. So far though, nobody has proved to have the brains that Stiles does. I believe that most, if not all, of the remaining suspects are Red John. Red John is a collaboration of different qualities making him the perfect serial killer. However, Lorelei did state, "I only wonder why you two didn't become best friends from the moment you shook hands." In reply to that, maybe Lorelei only met one Red John.

For the record, I know I will most likely be wrong. I'm not entirely sure who Red John is, but I know it'll only be one guy. The above are just some thoughts.

I HOPE RED JOHN IS BRETT STILES!


Why: -intelligent, manipulative, sociopathic, charming, great voice, and this aura women love

I cant see women sacrificing their live for anybody else on the list.

Another fact: when jane and RJ face each other..it would be difficult for jane to kill brett stiles,
Maybe brett even helps him to get closer to jane..only in order to show jane his weakness of not being able to kill RJ. -he would kill almost all 6 other suspects right away and with brett there could be some kind of u-turn scenario ..brett killing himself or maybe an acomplice killing brett and while dying he tells patrick jane some "typicial last words" that make all even more bizarre and compicated to follow

Sorry for my bad english im austrian

I would say fairly that the season finaly removes Bob Kirkland from the list.

Presumably, Red John would have know who Jane's 7 suspects were while Laureli Martin was still alive, therefore, if Kirkland was Red John, then he wouldn't have needed to break in to Jane's room and steal the information, as he would have already figured it out at that point.

One other point however: The reveal at the end of the episode you see the video playing and Jane dropping the photos. You don't actually know that those are the same 7 as on Jane's list. Maybe only a few of the names Red John listed cross over, therefore shortening the list.

I'm going with Bret Stiles for a number of reasons:
I feel that the wording in the video is very suggestive of his speach style. He has the means and the ability to control people and 'brain wash' them. They way the RJ followers we have seen act, they all act like the mindless cult people as well.

Guess we will see one day!

When Lorelei Martins says it's a wonder you weren't friends since the moment you shook hands. It was said
to Patrick Jane to demean him and to imply that he and red john were alike and this would be even more biting if Lorelei knew from first hand knowledge. If it was a story that red john had told her third hand or not a momentous occasion. This would not of been used as an offhand insult with the passion it was delivered with. Lorelei Martins was still on good terms with red john before she insults him and wanted to be released so she could serve him. Its possible that brett stiles and patrick jane did shake hands in the beginning of this episode, but it goes back to the movie when they pause to leave. The main thing is it needs to be someone that jane would have respect for that would bother him to know that there the killer and Bret Stiles is such a suspect, but he is the obvious choice.