Partridge is dead. 

Red John killed him.

He is not Red John.

I don't know how many times people have to say this. The producers, the actor and everyone else has made it very clear that he's dead. Yes they didn't show his whole body but honestly? That would be such a dumb move. 

Like what if Patrick with the drop of his tea cup realises that he hasn't had his tattoo removed, it's just a big flap of skin made to look like it has been removed, and then runs along to the morgue with everyone at CBI and says "cho you didn't look at partridges head, omg it's not partridge it's someone else's body, omg partridge is red john" and then they realise partridge was in fact the lady feeding pigeons in the park and they go to the park and kill her then sing a song and skip off into the sunset.

That's how stupid some of you sound.