The killer is Tim Foyle. Here's why:
Flow of the show/plot. Finding Mercer, getting him off, and finding he was actually the rapist was a neat twist. But the general M.O. has been to have red herring after red herring only for the criminal to be discovered out of the blue in the last or next-to-last episode. However, the character has been involved as a second tier character throughout the arc. And the key suspects, Mindy O'Dell and Professor Landry in this case, turn out to be possible answers but not guilty in the end. And the guilty party seems like a normal guy but we've gotten a taste of his evil side. Remember the scene where Tim confronts Bonnie at the frat party and flies off the handle. As well, Tim is in the final episode and is breaking into Mars Investigations. Of course, just because they've gone this route before doesn't mean they have to do it again.
Motive. Jealousy/revenge/inferiority complex. On a side, this is where I think Landry falls short. He's already humiliated the dean, why does he want/have to kill him? Tim is pissed that he's no longer Landry's teacher's pet and has been replaced by Veronica. Veronica has also become the dean's buddy. I suspect he saw Veronica's FBI internship application with Landry and the dean's glowing recommendations. He wants to prove he can pull off a crime which shows his true brilliance. Or perhaps his anger at the dean for calling Veronica "the brightest ever" inspires him to kill the dean. He also wants to get Landry, thus framing him for the murder. He already ratted out Landry's affair. And perhaps there's something more we don't know about related to why Tim doesn't like the dean. Or maybe he just figures the dean has so many enemies that they'd never think of Tim.
Details: I can't be coincidence that the fake suicide note is verbatim what Veronica wrote in her perfect murder paper. That makes people likely to have seen the paper the most likely suspects -- Landry, Tim, possibly Mindy. And if Landry and Mindy didn't do it, Tim did. It's also possible someone else saw Veronica's paper, but who and how? I don't believe it actually was posted on the Internet. He's added a twist to make it look like Landry did it and is framing Mindy's ex for it. Landry is too bright to dispose of his clothes where they'd eventually be found. He would have buried or burned them. I have no idea how/why Steve's fingerprints were on the keyboard in the dean's office. Did anyone check WHICH keys they were on? Maybe he and Tim were in on it together? Anyway, I don't have every bit figured out, but I'd be stunned if Tim wasn't behind the murder.
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