God Whitechapel was teaming with dodgey potential killers in the 1880s

Buckley seemed to be a man who usually was in need of money. I don't recall the Ripper victims being robbed of money and/or of anything that may have had a bit of value. Also, although Buckley was a violent man, he seems to have lacked the blood-lust of the Ripper.

Really interesting chat. I love hearing about the social history of the common folk 👍🏻

Interesting suspect, interesting story and interesting theory, but is he Jack the Ripper?...... my gut says no.

Every violent guy in the East End could potentially be Jack. Hundreds of them would have known all the side streets et al like the back of their hands. Also probable is their familiarity with the pubs and patrons, making it highly likely that the victims were known to several villains at the time of the murders. Pulling Buckley out of the mix and centering focus on him seems a little hopeful. You'd never get a conviction in a Court of Law for merely being a thug and an acquaintance of this one and that one!

I dont think Edward is the man, but BTK stopped killing when he was too old for it.. Zodiack stopped killing, and so did Joseph deangelo when he got too old for it. Serial killers do retire sometimes.

One glaring omission is the fact that Buckley had no known anatomical knowledge or surgical skill.

Personally I don't think the ripper would have been an openly violent man. He would be known to police and other people so it would be a risk. I'm sure with his record, if the police thought he could be the ripper they would have been watching him. Look at every serial killer. Most are very private. The types of people that friends or neighbours would say "I'm shocked". That's why they go under the radar and able to keep killing

As a Buckley I can't express how happy and joyous I am to find out I finally have a ripper suspect in my family line. Also, how many suspects are we up to now 200, 300?😊

Very interesting interview. The actual research and the collaboration invoved is the way forward. Jonathan is very good, and Richard of course is spot on with his presentation and questions, as always.

Completely absorbing, well presented plus researched and mercifully devoid of sensationalism.

Thank you, Richard. I always look forward to new theories and new suspects. Never gets old, even when the suspects or theories are absolute rubbish. (e.g., Lewis Carroll). Of all my KZfaq notifications, I think I look forward to yours the most because I know it something positive and enjoyable.

Very interesting. Amazing research! Very well put across. Thank you!

Interesting. I'm an agnostic when it comes to named suspects. But looking at early murders that are similar is definitely an interesting idea. Though there is progression in the canonical five murders, there still seems to be a practiced behaviour, which suggests he has been violent before.

This channel is unique. I appreciate it. Because its the only one ehich gives respectful time yo each person who comes on to share their research. Thus giving us all, firstly, all the suspects in one place, and, secondly, an unbiased overview of all the theories, and thus the information needed -and then the dignity -to make up our own minds. The only other person I’ve seen do this, is Tom Voigt who has collated all the facts around the Zodiac killer. He’s done it differently, yet it feels the same- just a fair go , and a forum, to everyone who had differing theories, plus a collation of all the actually known facts. Its highly adult . Like this channel

I don’t believe in any way he’s the ripper but researching years before the ripper era is brilliant because we do research the ripper in a vacuum

This is so darn interesting. Thank you. Amazing research! ❤

Compelling case. Thank you for putting this interview up

Really interesting, so many facts that listening to Jonathan Tye, you are straight back to the East End at the later end of the 1800s. Unfortunately there is little or no evidence to associate Edward Buckley with the Ripper.

Wow, this was so interesting. I’ll be sending the link to my Buckley cousins in Co. Cork, Ireland. I’m sure he’s no relation as Buckley is quite a common surname but who knows. Well done Jonathan, well researched all 👍🏻

Very interesting ...Nut job of the time and a realistic suspect that we have not come across for years. Will follow this ongoing suspect. The late Chris Scott done great research as mentioned. Great Stuff.

Amazing research! Its such a fascinating case and period in time, love the channel the host as the most perfect soothing voice for narration and podcasts 👍

I'm loving your research and presentations....thanks for your hard work!

Got to the 20 minute mark and there's zero comparison to Jack other than Buckley was a violent killer type. In Whitechapel, that made him very common.

Really interesting theory… very well put together

Very interesting! Will be good to see more of this when you uncover it

Brilliant insight into this period in history 👍 thank you gentlemen, very enjoyable.

This is an interesting take. Many serial killers "build" up to murder; they don't start there. Peeping into houses becomes petty theft becomes assault becomes sexual assault becomes murder becomes gruesome mutilation.

Great info - I love your channel!

Not convincing enough for me that's a big jump from pickpocket to butchering a human being

So he gets caught for all the minor crimes he committed, but manages to evade capture for the more heinous ones? Possible I suppose, but highly unlikely.

Beautiful work Jon. Beckley certainly does seem to fit the description of the man described as having the “carroty mustache” and perhaps “blotchy” face seen in frame / pic 34:50 what appears to be a (blotch) mark on the upper right cheek near ear. He is also stout, lived in and had a common knowledge of the area, and showed characteristics of a man who could potentially be a serial killer. If I am not mistaken a later (post 1888) description given has a man with grey eyes (I remember reading this in casebook somewhere.) Also, do you think that it is possible that ole Buckley and perhaps his brothers may have been the ones who viciously attacked Emma Smith? Some do attribute this attack as a possible early work of Jack the Ripper, and would make sense if his brothers were involved and why they never came forward. Anyway, another great video Richard, and I commend Jon on all his fantastic research and hard work that he put into this. I am sure that as time goes by we will learn even more about this man, Buckley and I can’t wait to hear it.

Buckley is a brute and doesn't seem very bright. He is a typical street thug whereas the crimes of the ripper seem to point to someone meticulous with a fairly thorough knowledge of anatomy for the time. Also there was no theft at the ripper crime scenes and Buckley was a known common street thief.

Thanks for sharing new video of Jack the Ripper.

He was caught often for far lesser crimes so his being drunk likely would have been his undoing if he were the Ripper!

Yes! The period Tye is researching is the most interesting. I have wanted to know more about earlier crimes and murders that could have led up to the Conical 5. Tye may get some earlier murders, many both 1/2 ruled in and 1/2 ruled out, linked, or removed more clearly from the C5.

I am an alcoholic. (Sober now). Im also a fourth generation alcoholic. The brutally against the chosen weaker ones that I’ve seen is unbelievable. Because underneath the drinking compulsion lay terror and rage. I know this from experience not theory. So this IS interesting. Especially the displaced anger-taking it out on ither people from the one whom you really hate (which is also classic serial killer behaviour- see Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway and Joe DaAngelo the Golden State Killer fir just a few, plus John Douglas’s conclusion from all the serial killers he interviewed ). Its also common in my experience, in the alcoholics I’ve known. Ps- its also been common in the control addicts who married the alcoholics in my family. So… him going into a rage for a while and killing a few women when his woman wont give him a child, is so NOT far fetched. Very interesting. I will keep an eye out for future investigations on this man

Loved this one.

Saw Jonathan a month ago at the East End Crime conference. He presented us with a very detailed lecture .

Thank you - I found this interesting, even though I do not think he was the Ripper. There may well be traces of other crimes that haven't been linked before he hit the big stage, as it were.

Very interesting take on the social climate at that time. My money is still on Lechmere/Cross, but, who knows?.... Still,... very enjoyable video as always

A nasty piece of work for sure, but not really the sort of man that I would expect the Ripper to be. I am open to being proved wrong of course.

Very interesting. I love the research, but “handy with a knife & quite violent towards his woman” doesn’t really make him stand out as a suspect over his brothers or violent friends, let alone other thugs in the area. To the contrary, it seems like the Ripper would have been more of an embittered loner.

Right, he searched before 1888 to look for a suspect not knowing if The Ripper would have been in the papers or not, found a suspect and then looked for evidence. Not exactly the scientific method. He still had his suspect and tunnel vision

Enjoyed the video and the research involved is excellent. Personally I think someone with such alcohol dependence would not have had a clear enough head and more importantly steady enough hand, to use the precision that was recorded in some of the murders. Think its amazing the amount of recorded history of this man though and certainly a colorful character of the time and area.

This is an interesting theory. Very well put together. I do have two individuals I suspect and a third who vies for second place.

The guy who murdered the women was in fact a slaughterer working at the end of the road where he in fact met a policeman just after he killed a prostitute... His apron was bloody but because of where he worked the policeman just assumed animal blood. He even had the audacity to chat to the policeman. Edit: the guy lived to old age and became a grandfather 🤔

To me, this man looks frightening. I get chills looking at him.

Fantastic

Think this guys too violent to be a viable suspect.

no not convinced that Buckley is the was the ripper. From everything you have said he was just a violent Alcoholic. , There must have been hundreds in the East End like him. Being of London Irish hertige I will say Buckleys behaviour is very common still today

Thanks for the photos of Hanbury St., particularly 29. You should dig up the short documentary made with actor James Mason, showing 29 Hanbury St. before it was leveled and replaced with a new building. It used to be on KZfaq but I believe it's been removed.

Sorry but not impressed with this hypothesis at all. Buckley was a violent thug for sure, but the kind of psychotic blood lust shown by the Ripper is an entirely different thing. The Ripper would have been an unassuming loner who would have been considered a bit odd by anyone who did notice him, not the human wrecking ball Edward seemingly was. He would have subdued the victims by beating them into submission before cutting their throats, not by strangling them. Additionally, there's no way a killer shows the kind of mental degradation from Nichols to Kelly and then just stop. Whoever the Ripper was, he either died, was incapacitated, incarcerated or left the area not long after Kelly's murder.

Always good to hear some new thinking on the solution to the murders, but what we really need is some solid evidence, which seems unlikely to be produced after so long. The case is so cold it's frozen.

wow! I have not seen Richard Jones in forever! so glad to see him on the KZfaqz now. I remember seeing him on TV shows on the television machine.

Hmmm... very interesting indeed! Many thanks :)

The horrific nature of the murders and how each became more gruesome seems more akin to the serial psychopath killer profile, not a drunken violent pick pocket. But prove me wrong.

Interesting stuff. Looking at old records the coffee shop at 235 Whitechapel Road was the Lord Napier public house between 1860’s and 1930’s ?

Doesn't look like any of the eye witnesses descriptions.

I was excited when I saw this video but I have to say, I don't get this as a suspect at all.

Edward Buckley has shades of a peaky blinder about him, slash first and ask questions later.

I think the MO is wrong, the ripper appears to win over the victim then strangles the victim unconscious, Edward is a loose canon, explosive and unpredictable.

Five minutes in and this gentleman has already admitted that he started with a suspect and then built a case from there. How not to solve a crime 101.

Interesting character. Thanks for sharing.

So this claim's primary piece of evidence is a modern artist's impression of a knife wound to a victim's face, and the supposed similarity it has to another victim's wound? How can that be considered of any validity?

Yeah, im half way through and have dound zero evidence to convince me he could be the ripper, and some things that make me think hes not a candidate. For instance je says most of his acts of violence was towards authority figures. When i think of the ripper, i think of a coward that took out his hate on woman. The defenseless ones. Not a scary predator stalking the night. More of a violent coward skulking in the night.

Historians all say and it is well known that Jack the Ripper had surgical skills, with his knife work on the victims. I doubt Edward Buckley had these surgical abilities.

This guy is very knowledgable and very well researched. I found this very interesting and very informative. And he doesn’t seem to be one of this hacks who bend the facts to fit their pet theory, which is very refreshing. But I don’t buy i to the idea that Buckley was the Ripper. It’s the same with a lot of suspects whose names get put forward. The fact that he was known to the police for violence towards women and had a criminal record makes me wonder why the police weren’t all over him like a rash at the time of the Whitechapel murders. They were checking out all sorts of people who had a history of violence and even anybody they could find known to own a sharp knife. Why hasn’t his name come to the surface sooner? If he was a credible suspect I would have thought his name would have come up as a suspect at the time. I always felt that if the Ripper was someone well known, well documented or known to the police already he would have been investigated at the time and we’d have known about them all along. The fact that we don’t have a clue who he is suggests to me that the Ripper was probably someone seemingly insignificant, someone who was completely unknown to the police (if he’d attempted to kill before, probably wasn’t caught) and someone who was so ordinary and anonymous nobody would have suspected him. It was probably someone who had no known history and was outwardly so ordinary it was unreal. Which means it could have been any one of thousands of people whose identity we will never know. I’m fascinated by the murders. I’m fascinated by the history, the people involved and the social backdrop of the time. I’m interested in what could have motivated or inspired such terrible murders. But I strongly believe that unless an unquestionably verifiable signed confession turns up, we’ll never know who it was. That being said, many of the names that have been put forward have been interesting characters in their own right, as is Buckley, who I’d have never learned about had it not been for Ripperologists bringing their names forward, so I’ve still learned a lot.

Very Interesting.

Great respect to Mr. Tye for as good as saying that all any of us can have so long after the events are suspects. Thanks to him and his colleagues for their research and work into this individual. However, l have always considered the Whitechapel killer to be an organ collector who had killed many times, probably in the counties around the city, in order to pursue his insane ambitions. Those ambitions were, l think, medical in nature and, l also think that the last murder, which has all the hallmarks of a dissection, is compelling evidence that suggests this. People went missing far more easily in those days.

I know this is not relevant to the conversation, but I must acknowledge Jonathan Tye looks damn near identical to the filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (at least from this angle).

Never seen a detailed plan of where these suspects lived in relationship to where the murders were committed. What was their occupation and family background

Very interesting. I think though a good scenario to possibly identify Jack would be to come across a guy standing over one of the victims who had been so recently murdered that she was still warm and had not yet even lost a substantial amount of blood, ie Lechmere!

As always very interesting. Not sure if this is “Jack the Ripper”, but as the interviewee says still a lot of research to do. I would have expected more violent crimes against women, other than Francis of course.

Unlikely suspect, but I do love how the ripperology phenomenon has gotten historians to do these micro histories on shady characters and London geography.

Other than he was a violent piece of work, in the right area, at the right time, what connects him to Jack the Ripper? This could be a hundred other guys. Physical descriptions of a man seen with Ripper victims describe a tall man. This guy is 5’4”-6”.

Not at all convincing. There's only one suspect that can be placed at a murder scene. Buckley's reputation would have rendered him conspicuous on the streets and not able to melt into the background.

Nothing here to suggest Buckley had a compulsion to "rip' women, remove organs and delight in gore and entrails.

Funny thing is, is he's probably someone who's never been mentioned or ever will. Buried somewhere with a headstone worn away by time.

I agree have heard no evidence that he could have committed the horrible acts of the ripper, yes he did some bad things but no reason to believe he could be the ripper at all, time and dates don't mean anything at this point and no background if knowing anatomy like the Ripper did

I've got to say he sounds just like my old man who thankfully is at least six feet under. How I survived I have no idea but he lead a charmed life til he was 85. Then it all came out and we're still wading through the muck.

At no point did any of the JtR witnesses report seeing a man with a beard.

The Jack Ripper will be someone, whose sadness is caused by the misdeeds of others, perhaps indicating that there has been some past trauma in his life. Moreover, can represent feelings of guilt, shame, or a sense of being used or exploited. Importantly, he has a sense that he is sacrificing something ...Edward Buckley does not match.

It's not that men and women were murderd in the east end.. Stabbed mostly.. But the manner in which the ripper butchered his victims. We'd call it, over the top nowadays, that shocked even those hardened people back then. Respect was given not only to those who could give a beating, but to those who could take one... Jack was too much even for those dark times.

I agree with most of you. It just doesn't seem that he, Buckley, has the same kind of violence tendencies than the Ripper had. But, not a man one would want to meet up with in an alley! Especially if you were a cop or a woman!!

It will remain an unsolved case, so much question of reliability of evidence. No. of realistic suspects. Reality is happened so long ago a verdict would be hard to reach if you took the case to the Old Bailey in London. Makes interesting historical debate though.

It's possible that Buckley could be responsible for some of the murders (or any unsolved murders not attributed to Jack the Ripper). With his crimes being known to the police, he would had to have been questioned by them (either as a suspect or a witness).

I'm always up for a new Ripper suspect! I was just telling someone today that I hope they never find the actual killer because the mystery is so impeccably compelling that if new technology somehow one day figures it out, it'll ruin everything. Just the clues, the psychological aspects and profiles of the killer, is whole a cottage industry unto itself! What a let down if we ever actually get the answer.

The full face photo of Edward Buckley struck me as familiar immediately. Have you seen that full figure photograph of a man standing in a backyard, near a short fence? This photo is associated with the Crippen case but I don't remember this man's name. I don't remember if he was a policeman, a suspect or both. But the faces are so much alike.

Exactly. Trd Bundy was killing undetected before he lost all control and went in a concentrated spree. Thats nit uncommon - that a person either kills or attacks bit by bit then it ramps up as his/ her madness ramps up

An interesting story but I don't see him as a Ripper suspect.

Francis Tumbelty or Walter Sickart although my head has always said Tumbelty .

Wasn't it that Prince Albert, We Have Seen Through The Years How The Royals Cover Up Stuff

I live near Saratoga, and there's always rich out of towners willing to rent your house for the racing season. Some people pay their property taxes on what they make in the racing season, renting out their homes. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a rich game for pickpockets there. I wouldn't know for sure since I don't gamble, and horses make me sneeze, but I wouldn't be surprised.

WAS SAID RIPPER “Medical Skilled” due to anatomical precision removal ? What’s the link of such to Edward ?

they should charge this guy Edward Buckley! why are the police doing nothing!?!?

Jack would be like any other serial killer he just didnt start killing he was doing it before but didnt get credit until jack the ripper and i bet the killer went ill be remembered forever , and from hell i think was a reporters work

1888 was the year ...The number 8 has a mystical influence

It drives me mad Richard not knowing who he was . Im perplexed by it and always will be 😮

This guy might be right but he has to make his theory make sense. Hes so excited that hes stuttering and all over the place. The interviewer tries to help him stay focused but its no use.