Sunday, December 13, 2009

Murder and Homicide cleanup

If a person is killed in a violent fashion in a residence, either through murder, the burden and responsibility for cleaning up the crime scene falls upon the homeowner, most often a family member.

Homicide cleanup refers to the crime scene cleaning involved when a murder/homicide has been committed. Not only is a violent death very messy and but when it occurs in the home is often very traumatic. There is usually significant amounts of blood, bodily fluids and sometimes other bio-matter.

If a decomposing body was removed from the crime scene, the clean-up is even more challenging. Since the body swells during the process of decomposition, and insects move in through body openings such as the mouth, ears, nostrils, etc, some maggots may still be in the area after the body was removed by the coroner. Also left behind for the technicians may be body fluids from the liquefied skin and organs that have saturated the carpet or soaked into the floor. This is in addition to removing what many describe as the most sickening stench on earth, the smell that resulted from the ammonia gas released from the body.

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