Tour guide Nicholas Vollmann led the group up and down the street for about an hour, stopping at buildings that used to house the gay bars where Dahmer cruised for his victims. The protesters chanted, "Stop the tour," but generally kept their distance. Hagen was one of about 20 protesters who followed the first small tour group of four customers Saturday. But Bam Media said it would not cancel what it calls a legitimate exploration of criminal history. The new walking tour of places where Dahmer trolled for victims drew attention this week after criticism prompted online deal-maker Groupon to take down a promotion for discounted tickets. "This whole thing opens up a lot of old wounds, a lot of painful memories," Hagen said while holding a sign calling tour-organizer Bam Media and Marketing heartless. On Saturday, Hagen criticized the new walking tour as merely an attempt to make money by turning her brother's murder into macabre entertainment. Janie Hagen's brother, Richard Guerrero, disappeared in 1988 and was one of the first young men Dahmer is known to have murdered. A woman whose brother was among 17 people killed by Jeffrey Dahmer joined others in protesting a walking tour of the serial killer's Milwaukee, Wis., haunts Saturday.
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