 Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spalling Decon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding, and much more. These are our stories. He's a husband and wife. Husband had been drinking. They were in their house. She was in the bedroom. He came in, started to get aggressive. She was able to kind of kick him off. She grabbed her gun. He grabbed his gun. He shot her through the shoulder. She runs through the house, dripping blood, and bio all over the place. Runs to her car. He starts shooting her in the car. So then she aims for him, hits him in the leg. She then runs to her neighbor's house. When she gets to her neighbor's house, they call the cops. He ends up barricading himself in the house. SWAT teams arrives right here. They fire tear gas canisters all throughout the house. This is where most of the shooting kind of took place. This is all between the husband and wife? Yep. About six weeks ago now, the backstory behind what happened is, is a husband and wife. The husband had been drinking. They were in their house. She was in the bedroom. He came in, started to get aggressive. Right in her face. Face? Yeah, she bit her nose. Yeah, so I tried to like bite her nose. It was like tearing it like a dog. She was able to kind of kick him off. She grabbed her gun in self-defense. He grabbed his gun. She ran out, didn't shoot him. He shot her through the shoulder. She runs through the house, dripping blood, and bio all over the place. Runs to her car in the garage. And the car's here, and the door into the house from the garage is right here. He's standing out of the door, and she gets in the car and realizes she doesn't have her keys, so she can't go anywhere. He starts shooting her in the car, so the car's going to fall all over it. She just pokes her gun out of the door right here and just fires to try to get him to stop, not trying to hit him. He thinking that I was going to make him run back inside. It doesn't. He keeps shooting at her, and she's now thinking, like, OK, I'm going to die in my sight. I'm going to try to defend myself now. So then she aims for him, hits him in the leg. He runs in to the house and stays there. When he goes inside, she then runs to her neighbor's house. This was during our snow week here in Nashville, so there was snow on the ground. So she's running barefoot with just a robe on, bleeding, shot in the arm, and it's out in the country, so she probably had to run about a half mile to get to her neighbor's house through the woods and all that stuff. They call the cops. This is about eight at night, seven at night. They call the cops. The cops come, basically have a standoff all night. Cops realize that he's not going to come out. Call the SWAT team. SWAT team comes in at 6 in the morning, backs their truck in, shoots tear gas through all of the windows in the front, upstairs, and in the back, it's called CS gas. And what it does is it attacks your mucus system, your eyes, so it makes you tear up. It can't open your eyes. It's not just pores and runs out of your face and your cough. You can't really breathe that well. It's meant to make you feel like you're going to die. It's not going to kill you. It's less than lethal. That's the whole point of using it, is you don't have to kill somebody in order to detain them. So about 15 canisters total and then bust the door down. He was hidden in the attic, and that's where they ended up getting him. So yeah, that's the backstory of how all this happens. So did they arrest him, or did they take him out? So they arrested him. Everybody survived, and she's doing well. She's been going to rehab and all that stuff. Her shoulder's getting good. She's tough as nails, man. It had been nothing but good to us and nice to us, which is hard to do, and we've just gone through a life changing event like that. She's getting better. She's doing well. That is probably the most interesting story I've heard doing this job so far. In the last two weeks we've dealt with, or I've dealt with probably five to six different subcontractors from textile cleaning, content cleaning, HVAC specialists, plumbers, electricians, and insulation removal, too. And then now we are finally able to start the full de-con process of the house because everything's out. All the flooring's out, contents are out. Everything's fixed. It needs to be fixed. The last thing now to do is to de-con the house. We've already cleaned the bio. This is our, we're going on our third week out there, so we've been out there for 15 days now. We cleaned up all the bio, and I can kinda show you, walking around where most of that was. So what's the de-conning process gonna look like? We did the demo removal yesterday and last, and Saturday, we applied a chemical that neutralizes the tear gas, so it basically makes it not spicy anymore, which when you taste it, you know exactly why it's called spicy, because it just, yeah, it gets in your eyes, in your skin, in your pores, in your mouth, and it's extremely uncomfortable. So what that chemical does is we spray it on every piece of the house, so every square inch of the house. It sits, dries, and it kinda de-neutralizes or neutralizes the tear gas. So that way, if it does get kicked up in the air again, it's not as aggressive or as intense for employees and myself as we're cleaning. It's basically baked tuna mixed with water. How long have you had a franchise now? We are, let's see, officially open up August 1st of 2020. We're going on our eighth month. Hey guys, Gabe Crispin here, spotting de-con Nashville owner of this location. Today we're doing a tear gas and biohazard cleanup combination. What ended up happening here is husband and wife were in a domestic violence situation. Then, when she gets to her neighbor's house, they call the cops, cops come. This is early evening on a Sunday evening. Long story short, he ends up barricading himself in the house, forces the police to call SWAT team. SWAT teams arrives right here in these tracks right here back up to the house. They fire tear gas canisters basically in every window at the bottom floor and some up in the top floor. So you can see here, there's two or four tear gas canisters went through here. One went through that octagon shaped window and two went through this window. So if you're talking just on the bottom floor in this section of the house, four, one, two, seven tear gas canisters right here. SWAT team then comes in, they bust the door down. As they were coming through the front door, they rammed it, I guess is the right word, breaking in through the front door and then broke down this portion of the framing and drywall. So when they came in, what was probably happening is we found some smoke canisters as well, which knowing some military background, smoke canisters are used to conceal movement. So what they did is they threw a smoke canister out here in the front, put the tear gas in the house, pulled the SWAT team vehicle up. Smoke was billowing, the guys get out with gas mask on. You can't see them because of the smoke. So there's no chance of him leaning out of window and shooting any of them. They came in, popped it open. They got gas mask on, so the tear gas isn't affecting them. And they went through clear of the house and found him upstairs. Going to the house, what used to be here, we had four pictures out of this couch, nice entertainment center, wood flooring, carpet, all that stuff. Tear gas canisters came through these two windows, hit one hit over here, and you can kind of see some of the material still on the wall right here. So this room got hit pretty hard. Into the kitchen, into the sunroom. So as the SWAT team was coming in there, they also shot tear gas canisters through this room as well. So they shot them through this door, through this window, hitting this wall over here and busting this drywall. So all of this pink right here, you can see is all tear gas residue. What you can see on the windows right now and all this other material, this white stuff, we've already applied some chemical that basically neutralizes the tear gas. That's why we've been here without mask and without any eye protection. And it not really affected us that bad. As we come into the kitchen, you'll see this is where she made her way out of the house. She went through here into the garage, out the door, and that's where her car was. So here you'll see different bullet holes all throughout the house. This is where most of the shooting kind of took place. This is all between the husband and wife? Yep. This is from one of the holes. Coming down the hall, we're going to back that through first. This was one of the worst rooms as far as tear gas was concerned. See, they busted the window down, had two to three canisters in here. I found two myself. One in here that went through this window right here and then hit this back wall. And you can see right here where it went through what the drywall was here and hit right here. And that's the reason why we had to remove this wall. Come through here. Another one of the canisters who went through here came and hit this side of the wall. So we had to remove this entire wall. Coming out of the hallway, this is where majority of the bio was because this is the master bedroom. So this is where the event started. This is where most of the bio was held here in the carpet that was right here. But there was, mentioned on the block here, trailed off into here and out the door into the hallway and through the kitchen. So as you move through here, there was carpet on these steps. There was blood every other step from the husband who barricaded himself in the house. Once the tear gas came in, I think that's when he moved up the steps, trying to get away from it. This room was hit pretty bad as well. A couple of canisters came through here and landed here and hit over here. One of the canisters hit here. Tell, you see the room, it's over there. We had to clean that. So hit there and hit there. Luckily it didn't function the drywall. So we didn't have to remove that portion of the ceiling. The attic was kind of the last stand. So as the tear gas kind of got worse and worse in the house, this is kind of the breathing situation. We went in here, tried to barricade himself in there. I just wondered if we found most of the blood and a lot of the tear gas kind of ran into him there. So he came through here. Bio trail all around this room that we cleaned up. I'll show you some pictures. This is where we cut out a lot of the bio. So there was a big stain here, big stain here and here. We had to cut that out like that. That was just him bleeding at that point. Yeah, as you can tell, this is where the cops busted down this door to get in to find him. In here was all Christmas decorations, typical attic stuff, a lot of blood, a lot of bio, a lot of stuff that we had to remove and a lot of insulation. So this was completely filled with insulation here and then blowing in insulation all through there and all the way back. So that's pretty much the gist, man. So what are we focusing on today then? So today is, we're finally at the part where we can do our decontamination process. We started yesterday with applying the neutralizing chemicals to make the tear gas less strong. And then today is purely chemical, scrub every square inch of the house and rinse and repeat until the effects of the tear gas are no longer existing in the house. You ready to get to work? Yep, ready to do it. So how does this compare to other kind of verticals you do in this job, as far as like hoarding and the bio cleanup? Is this your first tear gas job as well? Yeah, this is my first tear gas job. I really like the hordes best, just because I'm that kind of pervert. I can clean a horde for eight hours and then go home and watch episodes of hoarders until bedtime. This one's fun. Every day is something different, so it's kind of what I like about it. Yeah, some of the challenges with this job. I'm five foot tall, so pretty much everything is a challenge. Well, I'm glad it happened to me, just breaking some OSHA requirements going on right now. We removed the HVAC. There's a hole in the floor up in the attic and I was cleaning the rafter, looking up and I stepped back like this, stepped in the hole and fell and as I was falling, I fell this way and reached to save myself and just landed right on my ribs. So did you fall through or did you? Well, one leg fell through and one leg was out and I was just like, couldn't breathe and I think I might have broke my ribs. When you're in these rooms, spray wall and just wipe the other tiles. Okay, so I think that the rest of the house is gonna go so much faster again. Just tell them their ceilings still sprung and the floor will be still sprung. Okay, so I would just use a white ceiling, white floors and then do floor moves. I'll be back. I'm just gonna go to the hospital. You want to show the scene of the crime? Yeah, it's right here. So let's reenact. I was doing this, white, white, white steps here and then my foot fell through right there. You see where it was, right? And then my ribs hit somewhere in here. That's what happens. Thank you first. Idiot. The ocean will be pissed. We should cover that up. Yeah, we're good. You're gonna go pop. Is your world famous turkey call? Let's see if it works on that goose over there. Yeah. My one hidden talent. What's your hidden talent? I can't say it on camera. The whole upstairs is done and the stairs. So we got the downstairs to do it. My name's Andrew. I work for Spalding Decon. I've been doing it for a couple months. I got into it randomly through a, just it was a gig to start with and then ended up liking it. So kept doing it. What was your background before this reenactment? Renovations, yeah. It's really interesting work. So it's fun to do. He started it. How did I do that? Like a tear gas calculator where you figure the square footage how many can it do. What I was reading online is the cops use it in discriminatively because there's no accountability from an officer because they can't, if they're gone they can trace the bullet back to the gun, tear gas. They can't trace anything. And no one dies. And no one dies. Yeah. So they're like, oh shoot, as many in here as we want to. I know what it is. That's exactly what they say. They're literally. How many? Does it matter? Yeah. Yeah. So this is a Laurel Spaulding trick. On the pieces of drywall that have paint on them, so like the tear gas paint, it's like that paint commit that we saw. She has a trick where you basically make a vacant soda paste, mainly vacant soda, a little bit of water, make it into a paste, and then you put it onto the wall where it is where the tear gas paint is really bad. And then you come back, you should be able to clean it off, scrape it off, and it should remove all that paint. I've heard you can also shampoo with that. You want me to try? I don't know, is that time of the week or? Yeah, I know, right? After today, it might be. Tear gas cleanup, baby. Flash, personal self-care. You can put this in your teeth. You can put it in your hair. Put it on your drywall. Put it on your drywall. It looks kind of like tasty, too. I don't know, I might want to. Cottage cheese. Yeah, I was going to say, cottage cheese or like rice pudding or something like that. While you're at it, you can brush your teeth with it. That's right. Yeah, it's done like. Was the tear gas starting to kind of ignite again when you're scrubbing it in the sun room or? No, it was just, it really wasn't at all, so what's just good news, that means that the cleaning is working and the decon is working. It's just, we can't quite get it off that drywall. Okay. So I want to try to save the drywall, which helps the insurance company not pay a ton and build back and all that stuff. So in order to save the drywall, we might just have to remove some of the paint and hopefully this kind of gets that tear gas out of there. You like doing that too much. Yeah, it's working better. Yeah, pumping. There's a gross joke to be made here somewhere. Yeah, there is. Gross jokes. See it in different rooms, it affects like my eyes when I'm breathing. Basically that's the first sign of when you do more cleaning. So it's good right now. We're day one, I'm almost done. That back bedroom is the last one for today and then we'll do the whole thing again tomorrow, at least one time. Somebody's gonna ask in the comments and stuff. Can you explain kind of why you guys didn't need PPE? This is the first day we haven't worn PPE. It's the first day I haven't worn a respirator, gloves, all that stuff. The reason why is we've done a good job up to this point in getting rid of the tear gas. Really, other than the big spots, we could have probably stopped before this part. So now it's, you can walk in, can't smell it, it doesn't affect you. Now we're just making sure that there's no dormant line remnants of the tear gas that could come up in two months, six months a year. Now this is the attention to detail, the small little cracks inside the cabinets, all that stuff. Wrapping up on day 15. Yeah, we've got the, we'll finish the last bedroom back there. The whole house will have been hit one time as far as the decon process goes, which is just the cleaning and the scrubbing that we've done today. And then tomorrow we'll do it again, maybe, or minimum of once, maybe two times more depending on how quickly we can get it done. At this point, it's just more is better because we can't, we have to pay attention to kind of smaller spots. So those are easy to miss one time around. You reduce the chances of missing spots. You do it two times, reducing more if you do it three times. I'm gonna give it a little less. See you guys tomorrow. 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It's been there since Sunday so we are going to pick those up because that job's done and we got everything back to normal and save the carpet, save the drywall, all that stuff because we were in there quickly and we're able to get the water out and then start the drying process. So we're going to pick those up and then we're driving over Lebanon, Tennessee to do another water estimate and then we'll head back to the tear gas house. Part of being a small business is kind of got to be on jobs right now but then also you got to try to grow the business. So going and completing this job and going to start another job while this job's going on is just kind of typical kind of day in the life right now. So thankful for any jobs we get really. When we came in here on Sunday we got a call on Sunday morning and we spent 30, 45 minutes. There was a standing water in here so we brought our machines in, extracted all the water out and then placed the fans which you see around here in the humidifier. They've been running now for three days, 72 hours which is kind of the standard in the industry and each day we come back and get readings to make sure that what we're doing is working correctly and we're drying the building. So this is the last day I'm just checking to make sure everything's good to go turn these off, pick them up and take them out. Okay I have to give, I'm going to give a shout out to Gabe for real because I'm the executive director here at Elmcroft and in November we were hit with 37 cases of COVID and seven deaths and Gabe and the crew came out like immediately didn't care what time of day it was, didn't care what time of night, what was going on. They got in like full blown go mode and helped move all of our residents, helped our staff help clean, helped disinfect and get us kind of back on track and then when we moved all the residents back he came back and did that and then of course with all of these crazy construction that we've been doing he came and moved all of our offices cleaned everything up and he's going to be of course back here doing all this restoration now and then we're using him again next week so we are literally Gabe fans for life so. Awesome. I give him a good thumbs up. Biggest fan. Biggest fan for real. How could you not love this guy? I mean look at him. My staff has appreciation for him too. Oh I'm sure. Not for obviously what he does but for what he looks like. Of course, so yeah. How can you not have a crush on this guy? Every time, it's like every time they come in and do it, my ladies are lined up. He is the GQ model of Spalding Deacon. He definitely is. Yeah, I've got to come out and cover. That's what this video is for trust me. Yeah, here you go. How about that? So I love coming here. In all seriousness this place has been really good to us and they've been a pleasure to help and work with and work for especially during COVID. Particularly a sad situation. These assistive facilities during COVID. Not because of any type of deaths or anything like that. It's just picking somebody up and moving them and all that stuff especially. The elderly, it was sad sometimes. So we were happy to be here and help and disinfect the decontaminated as much as we could and happy to help them when they have floods and moving and all that stuff. Couple weeks ago I slammed those the opposite way. You see what I'm saying? I have to use this or else I'm scared that doors are just gonna. Have Michelle's hair look at your ribs because. Help me. No, help me, help me. I don't think they're broken but they are murdering me. They're working. Ooh, I think it's a scratch. That's from where I fell. Oh my God. Is it hurt, soft, breathing? Yeah. You want a mannequin patch to put on it? Absolutely. Make it a patch. Thank you. Right here? That's good. You're awesome. You are clear for tasting. Hi, Sarah. Thank you so much. You are very welcome. Now we can get back to work. I thought at first you said Vicodin patch. I was like, yeah. Are you from Nashville, Gabe? I'm not, man. I'm from, I was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Then I went to college in New York. El Paso, Texas, stayed there for about three years. Then moved to Columbia, South Carolina, stayed there for a year. Then moved to Nashville, Clarksville area. You had a military career during some of that, right? Yeah, so that's why there was so much moving. So I was in the Army for about seven years. I was an infantry officer. Did the majority of my time out at Fort Bliss, Texas. Afghanistan came back, stayed in El Paso for a little bit and then went to South Carolina, Fort Jackson for my last year and then got out from there. I'm super glad I went. I learned a lot, had a lot of opportunities, met a lot of great people. My best friends are still in the Army and from West Point and all that stuff. And provided with a lot of opportunities at a young age that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I went somewhere else. But I'm also glad to be done with it and not be there anymore and not be in the Army anymore and start this chapter. Four, six, seven. They're behind the RV for cover. Where'd you find them? They were behind the RV all in one spot, which is like over that way on the other side of the boner ship. I thought it was fireworks from like the New Year or something. I didn't even like look at them closely. I like kicked them and I was like, oh, that's all CS. Oh, wow. Can you explain what you're doing here right now? Yeah, so I don't know if this is proper standard. Okay. But the reason why we're doing this is because this is porous material. So the plastic, we can't get these stains out. Now it's neutralized and clean as much as we can, but we just want to, these are going to have to be replaced anyways when they rebuild. So what we're doing is basically just covering up any of the parts just in case somebody puts their hands on it or probably not needed, but it's an extra added layer of protection until they replace these with those. So can that be replaced as well? Yeah, this will have to be replaced. Yeah, we ripped the entire, we're not weed, but an HVAC company removed the whole HVAC system and all the duct work. So this additional is gonna do nothing. So we're wrapping up on this job all in all. How did it go? It went great, man. It was a beast and a half. Took us 16 days, straight, worked pretty much every day of those 16 days, weekends included. You know, we don't have to do that, but my biggest thing was the owner of this house as sweet as she can be. She's been nothing but nice and good to us while we were working. She's in a hotel and her life is completely disrupted. My goal was to get the house deconed as quickly as possible about doing it the right way. So that way we can get our contractors in here to start the rebuild process, which can just get her back in her home as quick as possible. How'd you rate your first filming of a crime scene cleaning episode? It was awesome, man. You got to come in, see some tear gas. We did some water jobs. We're about to go do a little interview with a crime scene we cleaned up a couple of days ago. So it was busy, but it was perfect, man. I appreciate you coming down. Wow, shots, thanks. Say bye to your new fans. Yeah, follow us on Instagram, Spotify and D-Con Nash. We've got some good content. We'll see you next time, Gabe. See you, guys. Thanks for watching, guys. 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