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Murder Scene Cleanup May Require Working With CSI Teams

Friday, August 20th, 2010

The homicide scene cleaner company had been on the site of the murder for over six hours but had not yet been given the green light to proceed with their murder scene cleanup. The murder had occurred more than eight hours ago and the police detective in charge of the case had called them shortly after he had arrived on the scene. But the suspect had been shot by the eventual decedent before the victim expired. Accordingly, the samples of blood on the scene were possibly, though not clearly, mixed. The police were trying to get the best toxicology experts out to the scene because of the problem they faced. They wanted to ensure the blood that was taken at the scene was properly collected so they could run valid DNA tests on the samples.

Accordingly, the homicide scene cleaning company staff waited. Since these homicide scene cleaners also performed accident scene cleanings, crime scene cleanings, suicide scene cleanings, blood scene cleanings, meth lab cleanings, odor removal cleanings and other death scene cleanings, they were completely sensitive to the problem. They did clean up a little bit of debris from the area but nothing of great significance.

Finally, the toxicology experts confirmed they had been able to collect several samples of blood that were clearly different types. At that point the detective told the death scene clean up company to proceed with its work. For the next few hours they scrubbed and scoured the premises before finally decontaminating the area. They consulted with the police additionally before finishing their work after being on site for upwards of twelve hours.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

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Basics of Unattended Death Cleanup

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

An unattended death cleaning is much more than just removal of a body. Unattended death cleaning companies generally also do murder scene cleanings, crime scene cleanings, homicide scene cleanings, suicide scene cleanings, blood scene cleanings, meth lab cleanings, staph infection cleanings, mrsa infection cleanings and bio hazard cleanings. These experiences give the unattended death scene cleaners the correct perspective on how to approach the job.

First, they must check with law enforcement authorities to determine the length of time the corpse has been there. By knowing this information, the unattended death scene cleaning company staff can assess the probabilities that the decomposed tissue, blood, organic material and odor could have seeped in to a location’s walls, flooring, grout, subfloors, upholstery and cement.  The longer the time, the more difficult the odor remediation.

They, of course, must dispose of all the visible items that are left from the corpse: bodily fluids, blood, discarded or separated tissue, feces and even limbs. Usually removal of some of these items involves coordination with the police particularly if the police intend to maintain an open investigation into the cause of death and whether it was a homicide. The professional character of the unattended death cleaning companies is an important aspect when choosing such a company. Their ability to work well with the police shall be a factor in the proper completion of their duties.

And when the unattended corpse is found by a family member, the unattended death cleaning company or death scene cleaning company, if professional, shall be cognizant of the need to treat the family of the deceased with the respect and sensitivity it deserves.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

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Death Scene Cleanup At Apartment Complex Robbery Gone Wrong

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Crime scene cleanup and homicide clean up is messy business. It requires a knowledge of crime scene investigation tactics and death scene cleanup technique. However, when there is a shooting at an apartment complex which affects the lives of many other families, a death scene cleanup company can make a real contribution to the community. This is just such a story.

The apartment complex was bifurcated in to two parts connected only by an unofficial path through the woods behind the buildings. Five men in one of the apartments discussed a plan to sell five weapons, two shotguns and three pistols, to some guys who lived on the other side of the complex. The kicker was that, after the “guys on the other side” showed them that they had the requisite money to purchase the guns, they would hold the guys up and take the money. They figured they could get away with it as the other guys were illegal aliens who had been working in the States for years but
never sought residency or citizenship.

When they went over to the “other side” one of the trigger-happy robbers started shooting killing three of the guys and seriously wounding another who had to have a bullet removed from near his chest and have his leg amputated. The police came but no one had seen it happen, and the only survivor, had not been in on the original deal so he had never seen these guys before and his observation of them lasted for only a few moments. After the police had the corpses removed, they advised the apartment complex to bring in a death scene cleanup company.

The death scene cleanup company, whose experience included suicide scene, accident scene, meth lab, odor removal and other death scene clean ups in addition to blood scene clean ups, first consulted with the police to verify all of the evidence they needed had been processed. Then they removed all the pieces of cartilage and tissue from the scene before cleaning all the blood from the site. They then applied decontaminants to this outside location. They concluded by assessing the area again and confirming to the property company and the police that they had completed their homicide scene cleaning.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

The more the information about our scene cleanup services, contact ABT toll free at 800-860-4268.

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The Aftermath of Suicide: A Family’s Story

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Looking back over the events of a family member’s suicide is sobering. After going out to the shed, I discovered my 52- year old daughter, recently convicted but yet to be jailed, had left a note and committed suicide, leaving behind two college-age kids and the rest of her family. In the aftermath of her death, we are in deep grief.

The police were very kind. They acted very professionally and were very careful not to say anything that was insensitive or inappropriate. They also made things much easier for us by calling in a suicide scene cleaner company. These suicide cleaner companies, which also frequently perform accident scene, crime scene, homicide scene, trauma scene, meth lab, odor removal and death scene cleanups, are in charge of removing those remains that do not go to the coroner’s or medical examiner’s office.

The staff of the suicide scene cleanup company was very professional and courteous. It makes it much easier when people are sensitive to how difficult it is in such a time of grieving. It also makes it easier to know that the physical evidence of this tragic suicide is removed from our premises. The last thing we would want is one of her daughters stumbling upon a patch of her mom’s blood or tissue when they visit. While I am in deep in sorrow and imagine I always will be, the professionalism of the police and the suicide cleaning company was certainly a salve to our personal wound.

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Interstate Traffic Accident Requires Comprehensive Expertise

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

A large tractor-trailer ambled down the six-lane interstate at 65 to 70 miles per hour. Carrying a load of flammable liquids, the truck driver hoped to reach his destination within the next 4 hours. As he cruised through the metro area, he saw a Ford Explorer ricochet off a Lexus SUV. He tried to avoid the spinning Explorer by braking and then moving his wheel swiftly to the left. Instead of missing him they collided but the evasive maneuver forced the truck to jackknife. The impact by the Explorer caused a puncture in the truck’s load so in addition to a mangled Explorer; three other cars that got caught in the accident, a light blue toxic liquid flowed on to the expressway.

Once the police got to the site, they stopped traffic entirely in the direction that the traffic had been moving, called EMS to transport the twelve injured motorists and contacted an accident scene clean up company. The accident scene clean up company that also performs murder scene cleanings, crime scene cleanings, homicide scene cleanings, blood scene cleanings, meth lab cleanings, odor removal cleanings and death scene cleanings had particularly strong expertise to handle this catastrophe. With knowledge about the nature of the leaking liquid, they launched a plan to conduct a large mop up operation of the chemical. In addition, they faced the horrible task of cleaning the remains of the deceased driver of the Explorer as well as tissue and blood of some other injured motorists. They also coordinated with the tow truck officials who were also called to the scene to dispose of automobile and truck wreckage. Finally, they applied a solvent to absorb the residual chemicals and then dispersed some sand along the affected lanes to ensure no unusual skidding would result once the highway was reopened.

The large job undertaken by the accident scene cleaners was as sobering as it was multifaceted. But the comprehensive expertise of the trauma scene clean up staff enabled it to execute the cleaning. In this city of millions traffic was resumed in just a few hours. While nothing can compensate for the loss of life and other injuries, the silver lining in this situation was that the death scene cleanup of the flammable liquid was completed before any combustible incident occurred. The tragedy was disturbing but it was prevented from being much worse.

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Suicide Scene Cleanup: Speeding The Healing

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Suicide cleaner companies frequently address some of the most difficult and emotionally strenuous situations when performing their assigned jobs. Often when an individual commits suicide someone plays the role of liaison from the family to those officials who have to respond to the tragedy. Once someone from the family contacts a suicide cleaner company the person managing the cleanup can act as an agent dealing with the police, the landlord (if applicable), other people who had relationships with the deceased. What often happens is that, in the course of planning to clean and then decontaminate a space in which a suicide has occurred, the supervisor of the cleanup must act with the kind of extreme care and deference that other types of professionals, like clergymen and doctors, exercise regularly. Accordingly, the expertise of these companies transcends the physical duties involved in a suicide cleanup.

Since many suicide scene cleaner companies also engage in homicide scene cleanings, blood scene cleanings, trauma scene cleanings and accident scene cleanings, its staff is usually trained, not unlike a staff of a funeral home or mortuary, to go about their business with the utmost sensitivity to the feelings and needs of the deceased’s family, loved ones and friends. This kind of sensitivity to the emotions of those grieving complements the sensitivity the employees of these suicide cleaner companies have with regard to their cleaning tasks. The success of an exemplary suicide scene cleaner company is to not only dispose of that which is easily seen but also to determine where other tissue or liquid is located so as to dispose of all potentially hazard materials. This attention to detail in these tasks reinforces a sense of being careful in every aspect of the job.

No one ever anticipates having to deal with the sadness of suicide. The more that family members, roommates, landlords or lovers can be helped during this difficult period of extreme sorrow, the better. The onus must fall on those people who do not share the personal relationship and experience with the decedent. The staff of a professional suicide scene cleaner company amply and consistently meets this challenge.

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Crime Scene Clean Up: Objective – Remediation

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Crime scene cleaner companies operate on the principle that the physical products of a crime, whether visible or not, should be disposed of quickly but not too hastily to suggest carelessness or leave a worse problem. Site remediation work is the process of returning a trauma site to its original clean state. Professional scene cleanup companies focus on the removal of these dangerous products of a crime both to ameliorate health problems and to ease potential psychological effects. Scene cleanup companies perform homicide scene clean ups, suicide clean ups, blood scene clean ups, accident scene clean ups, meth lab clean ups, staph infection clean ups, mrsa infection clean ups and odor clean ups.

In each and every instance, the objective is complete site remediation. Crime scene cleaner companies focus on the resolution of a physical problem to solve what is also a psychological issue: the impact the observable evidence of a crime has on a neighborhood, home owner, apartment landlord or tenant, a community or a city. These companies approach the crime scene clean up in all of its above-mentioned types by professionally addressing actual physical problems: smells, stains, blood, infections, toxins, hazardous chemicals. By succeeding in this approach the crime scene cleaning companies bring, not only a healthy environment for people to enjoy and thrive in, but also the peace of mind that comes with not being faced over and over with the physical reminders of the crime committed.

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Campus Restoration A Priority After School Shooting

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

As we commemorate the anniversary of the horrific events at Virginia Tech we recognize that many actions were required by the University, the local community and the State of Virginia to adequately respond to the tragedy after it occurred (regardless of any well-intended views one may have about the campus police and administration response as the incident was unfolding). The University set up mental health counseling for students, conducted memorials to honor the victims and cancelled classes for a few days to allow students to visit their parents and family while the wounds from the shootings were still fresh. One aspect of this effort that has not been noted is the trauma scene cleanup.

Just as the other responses each seek to mend the psychological trauma to the members of the university community, a professional trauma scene cleanup regime, executed by a crime scene cleanup company, homicide scene cleanup company, suicide scene cleanup company, blood scene cleanup company or death scene cleanup company is intended to act as a vital step in the process of getting past the horror of the tragic events of that morning. Certainly the primary objective of the death scene, suicide scene, homicide scene or crime scene cleaning is the full removal of toxic and hazardous material from the places where the shootings occurred. But that does not deny the contribution that makes to the ability of students to resume activities in those particular classrooms when they returned from the hiatus called by the university.

An essential component of the reaction to any tragic criminal event is the mental health treatment afforded its victims, witnesses and wider community around those individuals. While we generally would consider the work of a professional crime scene cleanup company, homicide scene cleanup company, suicide scene cleanup company, blood scene cleanup company or death scene cleanup company to be one of handling and removing physical substances, from a trauma scene cleanup site, the fact is the completion of their task is a necessary predicate to the community’s emotional recovery from the devastation.

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Landlord Faces Suicide Cleanup

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Prior to March 1st John Stephens, a landlord of a multi-unit apartment complex receives a notice from one of his tenants, named Robert, that Robert wishes to exercise his option to terminate the lease at the end of his lease term on March 31. As thirty-day notice is all that is required under the provisions of the lease, Robert satisfies the requisite notice requirement. Expecting him to move out as indicated, Stephens places ads for the upcoming vacancy and interviews several prospective tenants. After a series of interviews and chances to show the apartment, one of the applicants comes in and signs a lease and plans to move in by April the 5th. Stephens contacts Robert and says that he needs to do a walkthrough before the 31st to see if any of the apartment was damaged and then determine how much of the security deposit should be returned to Robert, if any.

When Stephens does not hear back from Robert by the 29th of March, he goes over and knocks on Robert’s door but gets no answer. He returns to his office and calls Robert but no one picks up. He notices Robert’s car is in the parking lot. Finally on the 31st getting nervous that he has insufficient time to get the unit ready for the incoming tenant, he gets the custodian to unlock the door. Before the door is even completely opened, Stephens can tell that an acrid smell permeates the air. When he walks in, he sees blood everywhere and a severely mutilated corpse. Lying beside the corpse is a shotgun. Robert has apparently committed suicide.

Stephens feels sick as does his custodian. After calling the police, he wonders how he is going to get the unit ready for the new tenant coming in on the 5th. That’s when he decides to contact a suicide scene cleaner company. This company which also does accident scene cleanups, crime scene cleanups, homicide scene cleanups, meth lab cleanups, odor removal cleanups and other death scene cleanups is at the unit later that day. They assess the damage, consult with police, begin disposing of loose tissue and scouring the flooring, carpet and drapes to eliminate all the blood and then use additional solvents to sanitize the apartment. Finally they use some sprays and chemicals to remove the odor completely. By the end of the day, Stephens can worry about removing the furniture and other personal property of the deceased. Before the 5th, the apartment is ready for the new tenants. Stephens feels horrible about the incident but is thankful that he had the option of bringing in the suicide scene cleaner company.

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The Collaborative Relationship with Law Enforcement

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Crime scene cleaning companies must develop a collaborative relationship with local law enforcement units in order to effectively perform their function. Many such companies which also perform homicide scene clean ups, accident scene clean ups, death scene clean ups, suicide scene clean ups, meth lab clean ups must first consult with detectives and other police officers who are in charge of processing a crime scene to ensure that no evidence that will be needed in the development of their case is misplaced or misused. Often there needs to be coordination to ascertain when the police have completed their crime scene processing and when the crime scene cleaning company can commence its crime scene clean up.

Furthermore, it is not beyond possibility that those who work on a crime scene cleaning or homicide scene cleaning, accident scene cleaning, suicide scene cleaning, death scene cleaning, blood scene cleaning or meth lab cleaning will be required to meet with police after the crime scene processing is complete or as a case is developed. Such staff may even, in a some cases be subpoenaed by a District Attorney’s office to testify in court about the condition of a crime scene or the manner in which certain remnants of the crime were disposed.

Finally the better the collaboration between the crime scene cleaning company and the police force, the better chance that particular crime scene cleaning company will be retained in the future when their services become needed again. Essentially the relationship between a local police outfit and a crime scene cleaning company is a mutual one: the police needs the crime scene cleaning company to ensure its responsibility to public safety is met and the crime scene cleaning company needs the police to properly do its job and put itself in a position to get additional jobs in the future.

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