 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. So there's actually two victims in this particular scenario today. You know, they're an elderly couple. They wanted to go together. He was very sick and so I guess they made a pack and she took an overdose and then he proceeded to shoot himself. There was a, I believe, a concoction that was put together in a liquid form. It must have been maybe spinning it all over the floor, coughing it out. This is where the woman who overdosed was over here on this side. All right, well, hi everyone. Ed and Chris are supporting Decon Southwest Florida. This evening we are here in Venice, Florida. Actually, we were, we had an office day. We were working on some business and received a call that came in and Chris took the call because as soon as we found out this was a bio situation, we turned it over to the professional. The client reached out and, you know, and speaking with her, kind of walking me through a little bit about what happened. I could tell she was in a little bit of a shock. This is the niece of the victims. So there's actually two victims in this particular scenario today. You know, they're an elderly couple. They wanted to go together. He was very sick and so I guess they made a pack and she took an overdose and then he proceeded to shoot himself. He sold the family, got some insurance information from them. So they've been here all afternoon with the detectives and everything. So they were feeling a little bit famished and weak and, you know, still very much in shock. It's a little difficult. There's three women having conversations with them. It's very scattered and, you know, thoughts aren't all complete. So, you know, it's just being very patient with them. You know, a very unfortunate situation. You know, the mother and sister of one of the victims is here. She's, you know, extremely distraught. You know, as Chris had mentioned, there was, you know, an illness with him. Apparently a lot of pain and, you know, and they've been together so long they just wanted to, you know, always stay together. And in their mind, this was the way to handle it. And, you know, it's very unfortunate for the family. But, you know, we're here to, you know, they wanted us here immediately. They wanted to, you know, kind of turn this page as quick as possible and kind of get back home and get this image out of their head. So we rushed right up and we were here to, you know, get this taken care of and give them some peace. We're going to go in. I mean, basically we, you know, they're the one side of the bed. There's definitely a lot of coagulated blood there and puddled and pulled. Apparently they've been here for a number of days. So we got the air scrubber running now. So we're going to go in and, you know, we do have where the bullet went, the bullet hole in the wall. So we got to go in and do a little investigating, you know, take our indicator. Yeah, also very touching is we've had a neighbor, her neighbor directly next door. This is like a duplex. So they share a wall and the neighbor next door just kind of came over and said, please give them our condolences and the whole neighborhood is thinking about them. Well, it looks like the flowers is just that. Just flowers we thought they might have some bio there. But it looks like we don't. So I'm just going to basically check the trajectory from the impacted area over here to where the bullet entered the wall. Yeah, the bullet came right through here. I'm not sure what the significance of the flower basket was to this whole scenario, but it seems like they kind of brought that in. It's pretty clean. At this point, that's where the direction of the fire, but there's no splatter of it that way. So I'm not sure. Must have really been wrapped up well and you can see the tail that was put here. So I think this was a very, you know, I guess well-planned and thought-out act. Now this is where the woman who overdosed was over here on this side. Let me check that before you take it. What's interesting here is I don't see a bullet hole. Obviously this is just closing up against the head. It's not containing that. Just me doing some of the paperwork for the client. I've reached out to the insurance company and the agent on the line, unfortunately at this time, is not able to help me. She can only do property claims and this is a death claim. Agent that can help me with that will call me in the morning. I was just given a reference number that will correlate with tomorrow's phone call and we'll just pick it up from there and help the client to get this covered by the homeowners insurance policy. We're estimating maybe Friday based on some receipts that we found, the letter that was left. It was kind of an observation to see. I think they were thinking sometime Friday night or early Saturday morning. Well, it was probably down the bed once it got to the screen. Obviously it must have been sloping that direction. Yeah, because once it got down under, yeah, it went down the screen. Let's bring it right here. It'll come along. There's going to be really, really hard to cut through. I like this design because it gives us the ability to not have to cut the actual coil itself. They're finding when it hits the metal that it's in trouble. Further than what it actually was on the phone in this material here. So we kind of expanded our cut a little bit down on the screen. You've got to wait at phone setting if that wasn't kind of part of the plan in case something didn't go play right. It was at 9-1-1 or something. It's kind of odd that the phone's sitting like that. Oh, nice and slow. I don't think it made it past that last layer there. I guess we'll try to bring it out from up here right here. A little bit more. Layers and layers to this mattress, huh? Do you ever have trouble finding indication on white or lighter colored fabrics? Well, sometimes that and the way the lighting is when you're on that type of fabric you really got to... That's why a lot of times we're looking at different angles to get better lighting on it just to be sure. But typically, you can kind of tell as you notice right there, we're getting near to the bottom and it's a little bit of shaky going on so there's a little foam that's just happening naturally. I think the fluid is very sticky and I noticed he had vomited over here and was in the process of an overdose so I think we're going to go ahead and treat this floor and use the extractor to make sure it's extremely sticky and not sure what we've got going on but I'm sure there's some type of vomit or something in the saliva or something. Do you think that's vomit? No, if it is, it's vocal screams both in vomit but it's definitely something odd and I don't know, you know, for some of this stuff perhaps mixed and they were drinking it that was, you know, pulling back up. There's a bug over there, too, I don't know if they mixed that with the prescription. I mean, there's something in here of course on my respirator, I can't smell but we're trying to get a whiff of that so I'll see if it's... Make sure to wash it, don't sniff. Chemistry rules. We're going to put these into black bags and we're testing to check that out before you throw it away. That has definitely something to do with what's going on in here. Right. I smelled it. Oh, but to smell it? The real question smelled it though. Oh gosh, okay. All right, well here we are. So we just finished up the bio clean-up here at this house. Pretty interesting scenario. I mean, he didn't know the people obviously but, you know, kind of a husband and wife scenario or actually life partner or something, but they really must have been amazing people. This house is impeccable. Everything right down to the medicine cabinet, everything in there is exactly one inch apart and the garage is organized to the hilt. I mean, Chris is super organized. This is over the top. It is, yeah. I was impressed. They must have been really amazing people. Yeah, we've seen it. There's a photo in there of them and they're just a beautiful couple. You know, this is very unfortunate, you know, but we can't feel their pain and they obviously, you know, just couldn't live with it anymore and didn't want to live without each other. So this was the way they decided to leave this earth. I mean, something, the first time we've ever run across it, there was a, I believe, a concoction that was put together in a liquid form. So what we found in the master bathroom was a lot of, I'm going to say, regurgitated, you know, whatever this concoction was and it must have been maybe spinning it all over the floor, coughing it out or something. Something, yeah. So we opened it up and smelt, well, I opened it up and smelt, I made that mistake and, you know, and I've heard a lot about, you know, things that people can, you know, homemade deals and I really believe this might have been it, like I said, there could have been some enifreeze in there or it could have been, you know, obviously there were pills mixed in, there was a number of different things. Is that a bottle of vodka right next to it? And a bottle of vodka. You could almost, when we're standing in there, you could almost kind of live what that must have been like, standing there, watching just absolutely horrible. So you know it wasn't pleasant. Yeah, it's going to say it had to be incredibly painful to go through that. Pretty contained other than that. And, you know, you could tell it was planned, you know, by the towels away, things were positioned. Very sad, very unfortunate. It's been really nice to meet. Yeah, they're going to be missed, that's for sure. And neighbors loved them. So it's always interesting, you know, trying to balance everybody's emotion and somebody usually kind of steps up and interesting enough to me, it seemed to be the sister really kind of stepped up and wasn't afraid to go in there and the nieces kind of, you know, kind of hung back a little bit and didn't want to go in there and everything. So, you know, balancing all three dynamics sometimes was a little hard, you know. They were all just trying to find their place in a situation like this and trying to be helpful, but not overstepping boundaries. But it was very respectful. So we got it done. Yeah, so we'll be back up tomorrow night. We have the ozone machine running and we will sign off, see you all later. Thanks for joining us. Thank you.