436: Jack the Ripper: Edward Buckley w/ Jonathan Tye

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

History, True Crime, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Edward Buckley was a violent East End tough whose life unfolded in the same streets and shadows as the Whitechapel murders. Born into a rough, crime-entangled family, he grew up in a world of poverty, street gangs, and routine violence -where assaults, intimidation, and desperation were part of daily life in 1880s London. My guest is Jonathan Tye, author of "Jack the Ripper? Edward Buckley: East End Thug and Gang Member". His book revisits the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and the years around them, bringing the focus back to the neighborhoods where they happened and the kinds of men who lived there. Could Buckley, a local thug with a documented history of brutalizing women, offer a clearer way to understand the events known as the Autumn of Terror? The author's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Ripper-Edward-Buckley-Member/dp/1036115682 The author's publisher page: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Jonathan-Tye/a/6186 The author's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583065492211 30% off sitewide at Batch! Go here and support the show: ⁠hellobatch.com/NOTORIOUS⁠ and use the code NOTORIOUS at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to True Spies.
0:02.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:08.0	Suddenly out of the dark that's appeared in Laubman.
0:10.0	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:13.0	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:16.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:18.0	Vengeance felt good.
0:20.0	Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.
0:24.6	True spies from Spyscape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome all to another episode of the Most Notorious podcast. I'm Eric Rivenis. My guest today I am very
1:01.6	pleased to say is Jonathan Ty. He studied early medieval history at the University of Kent
1:08.4	and has a strong personal connection to London's East End.
1:13.5	His great-grandfather lived in Whitechapel during the time of the murders.
1:18.0	His research focuses on crime and gang activity in the area leading up to and beyond 1888.
1:25.5	And he is the author of Jack the Ripper, Edward Buckley, East End Thug and
1:31.8	gang member. So great to have you on Most Notorious. Thanks for joining me. It's a pleasure. It's a
1:38.0	pleasure. And I feel like it's a step of an achievement for me to be on a show that, you know, some people that I really
1:45.4	admire have already been on as well. So it's good for me. Oh, that's great. So let me start
1:50.9	by asking, what's your first memory of the Whitechapel murders or hearing the name Jack,
1:56.2	the Ripper? And how did that lead you into the field of riparology?
2:01.7	It's a question, actually, I was hoping you were going to ask me, because I've been thinking
2:05.3	about this quite a lot recently.
2:08.0	My earliest memories are watching, there's two movies that came out, there's one in the
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