Wesley Blankfein, also known as Grady Shipp, appears in Red Sky in the Morning. He was a student and, under Ruth and Dylan's coercision, an attempted copycat killer of Red John. The boys shots some snuff movie, inspired by Red John, and use the name of a serial killer Grady Shipp, who stayed in cell with Orville Tanner, an accomplice of John. His mother was kidnapped by Ruth and Dylan, the directors of the snuff film, to force him to continue killing the victims. The intervention of RJ was most likely purely because he doesn't like being copied.