Controversy Over Dahmer Walking Tour

[DVV]

That's so right.

[Ally]

There are relatives of victims still living in the area in which the tours operate. MOTHERS of the victims still living in the area where the tour operates. It is disgusting. I am not a person who comes down firmly against much, but needlessly causing the families of the victims pain by turning their sons deaths into spectator sports is just WRONG. This is not a historical tour, this is a tour going on down the streets from the parents who grieved their children. It is putrid. This isn't a case of mystery, or intrigue, or historical importance, items that might make it a tour spot of worth, it is done purely for the delight of the ghoul and to do so this soon after the fact ...well...no. I would not go so far as to say it should be illegal, but basic human decency should prevent anyone from doing it without there needing to be a law.

[mariab]

I've been to Milwaukee (at a conference) and I have friends from there. It's a very short train ride from Chicago. It's an OK town, a cool art Museum by the waterfront on lake Michigan, nice atmosphere downtown, lots of crime in some parts of the city (similar to Chicago, but not as bad as Detroit).
The apartment building where Dahmer used to live on North 25th Street has been demolished. I've heard it's now a vacant lot. I can imagine that a "Dahmer tour" would consist of visiting North Milwaukee, the spot where his apartment used to be, the gay bars he used to hang out, the spot where the police found Sinthasomphone wandering about (and let him go back to his death, failing to run a background check on Dahmer), and the Milwaukee PD.

I very much doubt that the Ambrosia chocolate Factory in West Milwaukee, where Dahmer used to work for a while, still exists, and if it did, can't imagine it doing good with their sales. Protein enhanced chocolate?

A Dahmer tour is creepy and unnecessary. A Ripper tour has historical value, esp. since the Whitechapel murders were not solved and the case is so deeply embedded in Victorian social history and politics. Though I've witnessed directly that Whitechapel locals (not the pubs, obviously!) are hostile to the Ripper tours. And though I have to admit I've grilled my Milwaukee friends with questions about the Dahmer case, as everyone else visiting has. It's unavoidable not to associate Milwaukee with Dahmer, esp. since the town hasn't been known for much else before and since.

[DVV]

Hi Barnaby, wasn't Dahmer's block razed years ago ?
If I were from Milwaukee, I'd be against those Dahmer Tours, I think.

[Barnaby]

Apparently a Jeffrey Dahmer walking tour is being met with community resistance in Milwaukee. Given that (I think) the majority of us don't have problems with JTR walking tours, is the Dahmer tour just too soon or is there absolutely nothing wrong with it?

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#...-bar-tour.wisn