Now we’re going to get into the bedroom
where the death occurred.
-Why would you do that? -Oh my God!
Oh my God!
What was that?
-Did you see that?
It was a glass jar full of roaches...
that were alive.
By far, everyone prefers the gory-type biohazard cleanup jobs.
Started here
probably got back to his feet
here because there’s a puddle.
It’s just a lot.
One of the most popular videos is “Pop Goes the Body.”
For some odd reason,
this particular person was living inside this storage unit
and passed away from I don’t know what.
But because of the heat
and the time that the person was in there,
the body, you know, just kind of expanded with gases,
and then popped and leaked everywhere.
So he was ultimately discovered because of the bad odor
and the flies and the maggots and stuff.
What we’re pretty much cleaning up at this point
is his - just his fat.
Another one is the “Double Decomp.”
This was a nudist resort where people live.
Somebody passed away on the third floor
and melted into the ceiling of the second floor below.
It’s not easy doing something like that.
But somebody’s got to do it.
So when we started getting a ton of followers,
I think most of us were really surprised at getting recognized
outside of our work.
People would stop us in our vans, at restaurants.
I think the notoriety surprised us more than anything else.
[Super_Users]
[Crime Scene Cleaner]
My name’s Laura Spaulding.
I’m the CEO of Spaulding Decon, a crime scene cleanup company.
We have almost 4 million followers on TikTok.
So I started my company in 2005.
I was working in law enforcement for about seven years.
I was working a homicide,
and the lady asked me when we were coming back to clean it up.
And I had never been asked that question before,
but it was kind of a light bulb moment
because I didn’t know how to answer it.
I just know that we didn’t do it.
And I thought, this is for me.
This is definitely something that I can do.
We are here at the scene of a murder-suicide.
And initially I thought this would kind of just be
a side hustle when I started.
And now we have 43 locations,
and they’re pretty spread out across the United States.
The body didn’t seem to go any further than this
but, uh, there were footprints over here at the sink
and over by the refrigerator so that’s why we’re over here.
We do a variety of different property restoration-type jobs.
That includes homicide cleanup, suicide, unattended death, accidents,
hoarding jobs with animal hoarding or trash hoarding.
There’s got to be something dead in here.
When we started opening the DVDs and the VHS,
we realized it was all child porn.
It was just horrifying.
It was the first quarter of 2019,
and I proposed that we hire videography
and we have them follow us on all of our jobs.
And we kind of take an educational approach to it,
almost like a
And we want to showcase the real life and death
of what we do behind the scenes.
You cannot and should not throw away porous materials
with body fluids on them.
And within just a few short months,
we had, like, 60,000, 70,000 subscribers on YouTube,
and it has climbed.
My director of marketing at the time when TikTok first came out
said, “Hey, I think we should try this new platform, TikTok.”
In two weeks, we had 2.2 million followers.
Now, I think the biggest surprise for me on TikTok
is how many people tag us,
asking us questions on how to clean a certain thing
or how to identify a stain
or how do I get this out of bed sheets or whatever.
Those spots on your hardwood floors,
just take some 3 percent hydrogen peroxide,
spray it on there.
If it bubbles up, it’s a protein,
which is likely blood.
I think what draws people to our particular social media content
is really curiosity.
It's curiosity of kind of what happens to you when you die.
That’s something that I think a lot of people really don’t know.
Unless you’re in the afterlife care funeral industry,
you're probably not exposed to something like that.
Alright, so we’re at the scene of a double homicide
that occurred approximately a year ago.
We’re here to clean up the bio in the areas affected.
So what I’m doing is I’m taking pictures.
This is an active crime scene.
We just got permission at 4:30ish last night to come in
and go ahead and clean up.
So when we’re exposing what happens to blood
after it’s been sitting for a certain period of time,
or what happens to the human body,
and how do the gases, you know, kind of explode
and what that creates,
you know, it’s not pretty, but that’s life.
The whole point is, you know,
we’re breaking down to nothing, to bones.
And then, you know, that’s the circle of life for us.