Jeffrey Dahmer walking tours to start this weekend

Milwaukee, WI â€" On Saturday, Bam Marketing and Media will begin giving guided tours of the area where notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer met many of his victims. The 90-minute tours will wind through the Walker's Point neighborhood that was once filled with gay bars which the killer frequented.

Many family members of Dahmer’s victims are upset over the tours and only got word of the new business venture when tour organizers offered discounted tickets on the popular website known as Groupon.com.

However, tour co-owner Amanda Morden recently told WISN 12 News: “There's also the Manson family tour in California and the Boston Strangler tour. This is not a unique product, but it is something that is new to the city. It's a different format of information provided.”

Bam Marketing and Media’s website ( http://dahmertours.ticketleap.com/dahmer-tours/#view=calendar) provides the following description of the Dahmer tour:  

“Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the nation's most notorious serial killers made Milwaukee his home. He didn't begin there, but he certainly left his everlasting imprint on a city that would rather forget he ever existed. Some bloodstains cannot be scrubbed clean, no matter what attempt to erase them. To meet them head on and explain their origins, rather than attempt to cover them, the Dahmer Tours have begun… The Dahmer Tours will walk you down the path that Milwaukee's monster had trod, giving you the only available inside view of his hunting grounds.”

The tours will run every Saturday beginning March 3 through June 30, with three tours given daily.

Dahmer was arrested on July 22, 1991, when a would-be victim, 32-year-old Tracy Edwards met the serial killer at a mall and went back with him to his Milwaukee apartment. After spending the evening drinking and watching movies together, Dahmer held a knife to Edwards.

Edwards was able to fight-off Dahmer and escape. With a handcuff dangling from his wrist, Edwards flagged down a police officer after fleeing the apartment and described how the killer tried to make him his next victim.

When police entered the apartment they discovered a virtual chamber of horrors.

Four severed heads were found, along with several body parts throughout the apartment. Acid-filled vats containing torsos and seven human skulls were also stored in Dahmer’s home.

It quickly became evident that Dahmer was actually consuming his victims’ organs. On the night of his arrest, a human heart was found in his freezer.

In 1992, Dahmer was convicted in the murders of 15 young men, between 1978 and 1991. He was sentenced to 15 life terms.

At his trial, Edwards testified: “At one point, he said he was going to eat my heart. For some reason, God told me not to let this guy handcuff me. He laid across me and put his head across my chest and was listening to my heart.”

“He had a knife at my groin. I said, 'At least I'm going to die trying.' I hit him and got out of the apartment,” Edwards said.

On November 28, 1994, while performing his janitorial duties in Columbia Correctional Institution, Dahmer was beaten to death with a broom handle by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.

 

 

 

 

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