 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. We're here today. We have a death that happened Monday night. This was a long-term relationship and she gave him some space. Too much space she felt. Came to check on him and she found him laying on him. Alright, hi everyone. Ed and Chris is folding DeCon Southwest Florida. We're here in Fort Myers today. We have a biohazard. We just received this call yesterday since it's kind of an urgent situation. I guess fiance, husband had passed away. This was a long-term relationship and she gave him some space and maybe gave him too much space she felt. Came to check on him and she found him laying on him. Cause of death hasn't quite been determined yet, but we'll keep you posted. Kind of very unexpectedly and they were kind of living at two ends of the house, two masters. So we're here to kind of clean up the aftermath. Girlfriend is here and she's on site so Chris is working with her as we coordinate with the insurance company. One of the first things we'll do is get the airscropper up there. It's definitely got a pretty potent smell to it. That's going to be one of our first steps here today. And who we have with us today? This is Rick Clevis. Rick Clevis, it's your first day? Yes. How do you feel? Are you excited? Are you nervous? A little. That's fair. I guess that comes with it. And you're Chris's brother, right? Correct. Awesome. Alright. We've got a whole family business going on now. Keeping it in the family. Ready to get at it? We're ready. Let's do it. We're looking for a cell phone and a brown cowboys... A black hat? Just a hat or something for cowboys. This looks just like a normal mask, but this is... This is where the buyers started everything. I'm getting a little bit there. See the outline right there? See, it looks like the hikies have blood in it, man. Oh yeah. See a light hat? We thought this hikies would be easy, but we thought we'd see some blood in here, too. Part of that process is they vomit. They defecate. That's why we're seeing a lot of that. But there is some blood in there. Yeah, we've got that. Alright, we've got the carpet. It is. Oh, yeah. We're just a little checked over here. We do have some bio in the bed right here. We have a little bio right here. Ricky, what was your first impression like? You ever seen a leftover bio like that before of a body? I used to do a lot of desert activities on motorcycles and stuff, so... Yes. If you don't have anything, you know, have your foot get on any of this and step somewhere else on the carpet. So we're now finally going to get that area. So we're just a little bit past where that piece of dirt is. Now go a little further out. Your way. That's good. Put this in the bio bag. That means the blood seeps in to this area right here. So we do the extractors. I'll try to just make sure we don't have blood. We've got to cut this out a little further. It takes a pretty good bit here. Can you give it a little light? Okay, we'll cut that out. After we have this bio here, we'll just have leaned against that or something with a hand. You know, maybe that was a saving accident or something. Sometimes we've got to do it like, you know, one time, five times to keep cool it now. So we'll see if it can still indicate. When you fill it a little bit here, we'll cut this tax strip out, maybe. We'll pop it out. We've got a little bit of everything that's in it to watch. Yeah. We'll take a little double-check on some of these areas here. I hope that feels pretty good. We'll learn about this process. I think we've got to watch for what these edges, the grout lines, you know, the baseboard, see if it can seep into that or not, and maybe right after. Most of them are really like right here, and I'm right here. So this grout area here is what I've been hitting a couple of times because it seemed to have a little bit of a puddle, so it can seep anywhere. Probably right here. I'm going to have to get this into his water. We've got to cut it out. We've got to bring it to where it doesn't indicate, but if you come on to surface, nine times out of ten, you know, if it's a porous material, you've got to cut it out where it gets, like behind or underneath. You know, you've got to get what, you know, the last trace of it, so that might be to remove whatever's on top to get whatever went underneath, just like we did here. Now, exactly what the deal is here in the story, I don't think it had anything to do with death at the time, but we're definitely getting some indication of all this. So this is something that becomes a bio for us to clean, clean, and so we just got to follow what the indication tells us. And then everything we use right here for paper towels needs to go into the bio again. Oh, what the story is here when there's definitely some blood in the shower. So there was something more to the story as far as him, you know, bleeding. I don't know if he was, you know, maybe a diabetic or, you know, was on blood thinners or something, but there was definitely a lot of blood going on here on shit in his shower. So this will put it in the bio bag. We'll get the steamer with the little, the little round brush head, and we'll get this, go around his grout line to see what's going on. The steamer's the yellow one? Yeah, make sure it doesn't have any indication. I'm going to go out and try to, I guess the owner had an accent with the candles and we'll see if we can't get this thing up for him. She was doing something with a candle that fell. It was melted. Yeah, she was saying he was getting nosebleed. So that's why it's nosebleed. Oh, nosebleed. Nosebleed. That's why there's blood on the pillowcases that we were finding and on the bed. That's why it's in the bathroom? Yeah, bathroom two around the handles. In the tub. In the tub. Yeah. Yeah. We're just getting nosebleed. The work job today is going to be to go through the rest of the cleanup on bio and we'll make sure there are all of our indications that anything that has bio on it is handled. So actually what you could do, Ricky, is let's get the knives. Because we had some bio on the bed. There were pieces out on the bed. All right. I think we got all the bio. We'll take a little bigger check here on some of the clothing and stuff that's laying around. I think we're pretty good here with the actual bed mattress and bed topping. Take them back. I think we got some indication in the rail. There's a penetration spot right here. Yeah. And a little penetration spot here and I went into the, got a little bit into the texture. Yeah, looking good. Okay. So this area is area, is that right? We treated it now four times now. You're looking pretty good, huh? Yeah. I think we could tell that this tub was refinished before. We could kind of tell by the finish coming off or turning to, like, a piece. There's a microwave pot that they've been looking for. It's got some signatures from 1988 on it. So, it's a memorabilia. I guess one of those times was the pot. So if you try to find it, there it is. All right, Ricky. How'd the first day go? It was all right. Tough that it was on the second floor. Yeah. What's your background? What's your line of work before this? In the electrical field for 35 years before that and before that a couple of years in law enforcement. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. So you've seen crime scenes before? Yeah, yeah. When the people are still there. Oh, okay. So even worse than this. Yeah. So here we are, Carousen Ed, Southwest Florida. Just wrapped up a biohazard job. We got the call yesterday. We were here about four hours. There's three of us here working upstairs on the second floor. Spent the better half of the time cutting the carpet and checking the tile and disinfecting the bathroom. There was some biohazard waste on the floors and the carpet. A little bit on the bed as well. Not real sure how long he was there for. She didn't seem to know. Thought it started to smell something and she's on the other side of the house. She came to check and she found him. So while the guys were in there cleaning up, I was with the client. We reached out to her insurance company. She was very thankful that we were there to be able to do that for her. She really wasn't up for talking to them and explaining to them everything that had happened. Are you proud of your big brother, Karissa? I am. He has first bio. I was a little nervous. I could tell he was real quiet, but I think he did okay. He just did okay. We'll talk about that. There's a baby bio. Yeah, a baby bio. A little step into our world. Yeah, in talking with the client, he had a history of heart condition. So it was cardiac related. Cardiac arrest. I guess there were some other health issues that he had, maybe some behavioral characteristics that led to health issues that kind of all piled on top of each other. The client is very, very happy with where we're at right now. I think the big thing is the assistance with the insurance. That just was something she wasn't comfortable with. So Chris has been working with the insurance company while we were taking care of the scene. It's a very sad situation, but it's also a great feel good because you could just tell she's 100 pounds off her shoulders right here or right now just because of where we're at and once we've reviewed everything with her. I think she's going to get her appetite back and maybe get some rest. It's been a long few days for her. Yeah, one of the things that she shared with me, she goes, I'm so glad that I reached out to you guys. You guys were definitely the right company, so that made me feel good. That's what we do. That's what we're here for. Until next time. 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.