The mentalist is such a great show becuase it makes people swear that they know who red john is . Whether its me with gvp and rigsby, partridge people, kirkland fans etc we all swear we know or knew we were right .
Heller made it that way on purpose. Everyone is a suspect even patrick jane !

Back to linus wagner. I think people are on to something with him. I dont think he is red john but knows him very well. He coulda had his colleague tannen killed by a hitman when he was alone.
Instead wagner says he wanted to kill him and the girl to create diversion bc cops would be swarming his work otherwise? Umm the cops did swarm his place anyway right
Maybe this was a two man job.
Wagner gave red john the girl as wagner took care of tannen.
Maybe tannen knew something else that got him killed.
Tannen who was a plastic surgeon could have done work on red john and found his identity or something along those lines who knows.
It is very odd wagner killed a man with his bare hands becuase that man found out wagner was stealing money to feed African children. Even weirder that tomothy carter arived in the usa out of thin air in 2008 from africa as a missionary.

Also completely different clue:
When minelli makes that epic speach to the media when he calls the reporters questions horses assery, you can notice right after he speaks to lisbon that he then talks to craig olaughlin. It looks like craig and its only a split second where minelli looks his way then the camera goes onto olaughlin .
I have no idea why, just throwing it out there.