 We're down here in Naples today for an unattended death. This actually goes back, I think, about five or six weeks ago. She's out of state, works a full-time job. Nobody would tell her anything. And she's been very leery of us going into the house without knowing for certain if there was homeowners insurance or. 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. Spoling 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. In Collier County in Naples, Florida, this house has at least a year and a half story behind it and actually started with a bio that there was actually a executor of the will in person had been appointed by the legal process to be able to make decisions. And so we were able to actually come back a year and a half later and reopen the claim. But unfortunately, this entire area was just nailed by Ian a couple of months ago. In this house and almost every house in this neighborhood, I saw anywhere from four inches of water to maybe three feet of water dependent on elevation of their home, including this house, but most of it's around 14, 16 inches flood throughout the home. We take a look at it. We see all the mold and we explain to her what's all involved and she's sounding totally disinterested, overwhelmed. And basically just then says, well, probably within 24 hours, Ed gets a call from her brother that says, proposal looks good. And we're like, OK, well, we gave him two. Which one does he mean? The proposals look good. So Ed gave the brother a call and he said, yeah, we're going to go with the purchase. So this is now turned into a real estate. In this house sat empty for a long, long time. And then the flood came for the hurricane. But I want to say for the looks of this, the power was off long before the flood water ever came and shut the electric off. But you can see some of the evidence on the outside here, kind of nasty, nasty looking stuff. There we go. Is that lunch meat, maybe? At one time? That's some type of pork, maybe, or? Well, it's pretty gross. But I'll tell you, the odor, I think, due to the time, is not as bad. There's no way I could be here without a full-face respirator on or at least a half-mass one sun. But you know, you're going to not just create the perfect environment. And you sometimes get the big part. Here's a perfect example of what mold can do in your home when the air is not working and the temperature gets just right. As you can see, it has literally taken over this chair. This, the guy was in the service, and he collected these things to see what we got. Same thing. Sure, he worked very hard for it and tried to clean it. But he better just throw it away because it's pretty bad. He's been sitting through the flood. The flood happened over three months ago. This car, of course, has been sitting here since the gentleman passed away. In fact, we had the key to the house. So there was really no one coming in and out of this house for almost 18 months. So this car was sitting here, and then, of course, the flood happened. So it was never, I think we can barely see the water line. But right around here, this entire garage was flooded. Now, it was rather brief, so it wasn't like it sat in water for days or anything. Kind of the storm surge came in, and usually within about 30 minutes, most areas, it sucked it back out. So we have category three, black water. So that's always a really bad thing for vehicles. So we're not sure of the status of this. Most of these become salvage vehicles, maybe for parts and scrap. The good news is, we're trying to dry it out. We're going to see what we can do. And when we have a hurricane like this, and cars get flooded, they open the windows and open the doors so that they can breathe. Well, this one was sealed up tight. So the mold grew like nothing. It was like a science experiment in there. I mean, none of that salt water should have made its way into any of the fluids because it was never started, and it wasn't flooded in that sense, you know? So I think we're going to give her a try. So I noticed that all the electronics seem to be working. As far as the dome lights, the dash, and all that stuff. All right, let's fire her up. Well, I don't know if I got enough juice to fire it, I'll try it. So it's excess key disabled. Oh, you might need the battery. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. But I'll tell you, I'm encouraged by the dash, not like lighting up like a Christmas tree or acting weird. So these three boxes were up here behind the toaster. And, you know, the sister had already been in here. She pretty much cleaned up this place. I'm sure somebody's going to want this, you know, even if, you know, the sister doesn't. So it is definitely something that I will take pictures of, and as it's documented here in this video. And, you know, give her the option and the decision to see what she would like to do where we talk to some family members. So the other two things that I have found in here is, and this is something that we have been searching for. It's one of the things they sent us in here initially for was to find jewelry. And we had looked all over, and I did find some jewelry, but I didn't know if I found the jewelry. Well, obviously this is going to be the jewelry. This looks like this may have belonged to the deceased himself, but the sisters and the wives were telling me that there is some very nice jewelry that used to belong to their grandmother, their mother. So I believe I have found that. A lot of this looks very dated to a particular era. So I think this will be fun for them to be able to keep. Might not be anything of great value, but I'll think a lot of sentimental value to it. So these are some of the lovely treasures that we can discover, but it takes some digging. Two other people had to miss this in order for me to find it today. It's worth a little bit of effort sometimes to be able to give the family something back like this. So here's a few other things that we found. Like this particular door, I couldn't open it. So Ed came in and manhandled it, got it open. And some of the things that we started to find in there. And then the family had mentioned some knives, but just some really, really cool looking knives. Because it looks like it was quite a collection he may have had. But I mean, you can tell that this is antique and this might go with the other set in the box. This kept separate. I carved some turkey with that from Japan. I'm trying to think, is it a filet or for fish? I should have been a sixth generation baker and I have no idea what that is. All the time we find things, you know, class rings, you know. Sometimes people might not have one bit of anything that's worth anything, but there's the one class ring, you know, the brother or the sister says, I would like it if you could find it. 99.9% of the time, I swear to God, we find everything that the family sends us in to look for. Yeah, so here we got a whole box of, and I don't know how old, but it's definitely an older line-out. Unfortunately, it was all in the floods. So we do have rust and damage and everything. So I really don't think anything can be salvaged out of it, which is a real shame because I know there's people that just love to collect these. You can see what's happening. That's salt water. That's what happens in salt water right there. Oil, what is that? Oil can or something, some type of train cleaner. And yeah, pretty cool. Here you go. Looks like we got some barrels or logs or something. Look at this, an airplane, man. Oh, good. I guess I could went to that hangar. I don't know if I've ever seen an airplane on a rail car before, but yeah, set that puppy up. Hours of fun and entertainment right here. These are made in England, not made in China. And really day two here on the scene. And we had four technicians here going through the house right now. We're gonna try to just empty out all the moldy things and things that are still left in the cabinets. I mean, the gentleman that lived here previously, he never even got the opportunity to unpack. So there's still some boxes that we haven't even opened. We don't even know what's in them yet. So we'll have them just unwrap them and take a quick look at them. But the family has pretty much said that they've gone through it and gotten what they want. So we know that a majority is just going right into the dumpster for today. So there's not a whole lot left in the house. So we plan on wrapping that up today. And next visit will be, we'll continue with the flood cuts and the mold remediation. 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.