 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. Spaulding 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. Hey guys, Laura Spaulding here. We are in Tampa, Florida on a gunshot suicide. Imagine that you have enchiladas and you put it in the microwave for 25 minutes instead of one minute. It explodes. That's what this is in a larger space. Here is part of the jaw and the teeth. Hey guys, Laura Spaulding here. We are in Tampa, Florida on a gunshot suicide on the east side here. We got a call last night from the homeowner's adult son who said that his stepfather, her husband, shot himself in the bedroom and she was distraught and he was going to take care of everything. So we are here early in the morning and we're getting ready to start this process. It's myself and Nick and we have a new person named Jeff starting here. I'm going to be the third trainer, gopher type thing and these two are highly capable of handling it. And they had the fan on so there's brain splattered little chunks on the fan. So suit up, make sure you're good to go. I love being in the field. I really do. I miss it. I miss working with the guys. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in the office a lot of the times but my OCD is kicking in. I love it. I love to like transform this room and the guys aren't used to working with me so they're probably going to hate me by the end of the day because I'm such a perfectionist and I'll find every little thing. But this is a small space so it's super easy to miss stuff because everything is just super consolidated but we're training a new guy today so we'll see how he does and I'm specifically looking for his attention to detail and a good attitude. I can teach everything but I can't teach you to have a good attitude and a good outlook on life and maybe a positive mindset but I'm hoping that he fits in well and he can deal with the heat in a Tyvek suit. So we'll have to see. You got a pole in your boot? Again. Yeah, again. It always happens to me. Always gets a hole in my boot. Just a big gaping hole straight to my toe. Found that out when I got shockwave in my boot. But at least it was shockwave and not other items. My name is Jeffrey and I'm glad to be here. This is my first day of the job actually and so I live in Palm Harbor and I'm a health coach and a writer. Oh cool. And I'm happy to be here. I know each place that we're at presents its own challenges and opportunities so the kids, they would tell me just to do your job, you know. So that's why I'm here. So the first goal is to get all the contents out so you have a safe place to work. Okay. Okay. What if I can't see nothing in the children? Yeah, we can't see. So what we would do is put it to the side and tell them to launder it. Okay. You know I think the thing that we're most worried about is probably hepatitis because it can live outside the body for so long. You know most people think it's HIV or something and it's not. It's because HIV dies immediately without a host and hepatitis comes outside the body for up to three weeks is from when I last heard. I'm more concerned about that than anything and we're pretty well suited up and we take precautions. Where'd you get this from? Sitting on top of that chair. There's a lovely chair in what I have but I'm wearing this because it's on the ceiling and I'm not taking that chance of it dropping. I mean obviously it's where it's pulled up but I mean it's dry for the most part. I mean it's most likely spread around not telling if it went to the wall or not. Well if the clean we're going to use our disinfectant to wipe off any non-porous material. Any porous things we're trying to see if it has any bio on it and then clean it if we can and if we can't then obviously trash it. I like it a lot. I train all the franchisees still so I enjoy it and the feedback that we get is most franchisees love the hands-on part the best obviously. So being in the different environments and stuff and we have some very creative things that we do for training. We have cars brought in and RVs. We do mock houses and bedrooms and we utilize a bunch of different types of furniture styles so we teach them on all different types of surfaces. It's pretty thorough. The worst decomp I've ever been on was probably when the guy melted through the second floor into the first floor. Absolutely horrible. He must have been bleeding for a while because it was all over the place. We had to take up his subfloor, the insulation underneath, deal with the trusses, then go to the first unit and work from the ceiling all the way up. It was horrible. So if you had to rate this job on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst, how would you rate it? Probably a 7 because of the confined space and the attention to detail. So not all technicians have the same level of attention to detail. You have to be extremely thorough when you have these type of jobs because it's everywhere. It's absolutely everywhere. So imagine that you have enchiladas and you put it in the microwave for 25 minutes instead of 1 minute. It explodes. That's what this is in a larger space. Well, this is more of a cloth so that we really can't clean. Here is part of the jaw and the teeth. It's super strange feeling to have this in my hand that's a human part here. So this blast was clearly strong enough to where it blew that part out. So it was over here and he was sitting right there. We're still cleaning out things. It's very detailed. We haven't even started with the actual room. And this is normal. It's just super methodical and detailed. So this was a shotgun suicide. It was probably about 5 to 7 years ago. It was actually a medical doctor and he had rigged up a shotgun and shot himself in the master bedroom. And the blast was so significant it blew his jaw down the hallway into the living room. Pretty intense. You can see there's a little bit of teeth and matter on it. So I'm going to try to take it off here. So there's no bio on this but I'm just kind of wiping it down. Most people want to know what happened, why did he do it and stuff and honestly we don't know. All we know is it was a guy between the ages of 45 and 55 and he shot himself. We don't know why. We don't know what happened. One of the neighbors came by and said he knew him. And he said he was surprised to hear that. So we don't know if he was terminally ill. We don't know if there was mental health issues. We just don't know. You can say he was dead for a day? Yeah, they pulled us right away so I think it happened last night. What were your first impressions on the room with the blood and everything? I didn't even really pay attention to it so much as figuring out ABCD. The emotional aspect is really easy for me not to get into. You can feel the love in the house. You know what I mean? It's easy to be empathic there. You always feel for the family of course. Front tooth, second to front and then more along that line. Top or bottom? Top. There's too much jaw there. Kind of flushed my gutter right there here in the wood crack. Well I can't say that they're better because at least my feet would be comfortable in those. But they are a lot more ringy. Just on that side of the box. We found some internet, we found a couple collectibles and we found some porn of course. There's not much you can say about porn. I know it was the moment I felt it. Did you? Think it's real? No. Oh no. Nope because right there it says... If it was real would you turn it into a ring? Fuck no. Did you imagine that? I don't even think Laura would wear that. Well the cloth actually turns out to be double sided. You can access it from that ring. Shut the front door. I mean I hope not. That's our light. Is the clothing contaminated? Some of it is. Some of it isn't. We split it apart. I've got two trash bags full of clothing. They're in the kitchen right now. I took out the bag. That's a cute bike. That would fit my son. You just missed it. We found some porn too. Sweet. The hats though. I can't really see if there's anything on them. I believe it's concrete subfloor. I'm pretty sure this house is really old. I think they're plaster walls. Which is good because the wipe off easier. Okay. All right. Any other clothes? I just gotta grab the hats that are all here. I don't see anything on them. Nothing phoned up. See if there's bags? Yeah. Whoa that's fucking creepy. There's a fucking doll standing on the other side looking this way. Scary I tell you. I looked around the corner and it's like oh there's a doll. Yup. Go ahead. It's a heavy jacket. I like this style. That's at least a couple of pounds. Inside? It's like five. Now that was hidden. That was buried inside. It's an afghan. It's a throw blanket. It's not showing exteriorly in front of the other one. So the guys have finished up cleaning out all the contents of this room. And whenever you have a gunshot blast like that it's like an explosion. So the closet door was open and we can see right here that the projection went towards the closet. So all of the clothing in here had to be inspected to make sure that it was contaminated. I can see a little bit of matter here. So we know that it did get in here, not huge amount, but there's some and it's projecting this way. So the next steps for us are to start at this popcorn ceiling and then work our way down on these plastered walls and get all this bloody carpet out of here. And this room will look fantastic. It will look even better than it did pre-incident. You know I have a detective background so I'm always kind of looking for patterns where bullet holes are. And I knew that he was sitting right here because the chair was here. But I immediately looked to the ceiling and I see that the bullet went through and through into the ceiling. So it's likely lodged somewhere in the attic or it went through the roof. We've had that happen too. So automatically I'm looking at how that happened and I can see the projectile went this way. So I want to pay special attention to things like that. Now when you're dealing with kind of new tax or young tax and stuff like that I want to be to kind of teach them thoroughness and how to really inspect things that may not, you may not even think it. For example I happened to see an ironing board in the room right behind us here. And it looked like it had spatter on it so I pulled it out to inspect it and it did. So what that tells me is maybe the ironing board was in here originally and somebody moved it out of the way. Well if I hadn't been paying attention to my surroundings I probably would have missed that. But that's just one of the things that we look for to make sure that we get everything because obviously the family is distraught and the last thing we want to do is miss even something this size because it could be devastating. Well you can see the popcorn ceiling is down. We sprayed the wall in the ceiling with disinfectant and we sprayed it all. And now we're going to close the walls. And right now we're getting ready to steam the walls trying to get some of this platter off. And hopefully it will wank right off once we get it steaming and hot. Work smarter, not harder. The steaming went excellent so far. It's coming off nicely. We've got this wall finished. Obviously we'll do it one more time just to go over it to make sure. He's doing some detailed work on that wall. I'm wiping down this little section. So we got from about the edge of that window to the edge of that window. And that corner to that. Steaming that it doesn't get into the wall. Pull up the carpet, pull up the padding, seal all of it and we're good to go. Probably my final check on the wall. If the walls are all looking good then we can jump to the carpet and eventually get out of here. I just got to do one very thorough check. See it doesn't help these little spots like that. Those. That and the little piece of rain or whatever. Appreciate it. Little piece of draw. Little brain. Now that's definitely done I think. I also think it's kind of gross. But I love my job. It's that thicker. One of my little pleasures in life is watching it bubble up as we get on with our day. Watching indicator indicate. Yeah. Like one of those, if it was really quiet it'd be one of those ASMR things. All the bubbles. So once we cut out that little square there's actually ceramic tile up underneath the carpet. So we're just going to sort of like pack it up for day one and it's going to try and do it day two. Tomorrow once we get here we're already going to have the carpet pulled. All the tack strips pulled on the edge. And then after that it's just going to be shipping up that little section right there. Cleaning it and sealing it and that should be it unless there's any more surprises that we don't know. Wrapping up day one, packing up right now and then we'll be back tomorrow on day two. Let's get it done. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and ring that bell to be notified of the next episode. For more information visit any of our locations.