Where do cockroaches and vermin go when you attempt to kill them?

Well…if you were being pursued by a psycho killer where would you go?
I am sure it is hiding and not coming out until about 4 am when the big predator is sleeping.

Maybe it is IN your bed, under the mattress, or waiting under your pillow.

I had a lizard run across my face in bed the other night. My cat brought in and let it go on my bed. lol

Cockroaches are masters of hiding, just like mice. They can squeeze themselves into the smallest of holes, crevices, book pages and disappear, especially if they were running for their lives. I believe they can also walk across things upside down, just like centipedes and spiders, so maybe it clung onto the underside of your bed foundation.

What is your other “vermin” you have there?

They do have a cloaking device you know. Lol.

Most likely it’s in the stuff you removed from your bed.

They tend to go, very quickly, into cracks and holes in the walls, for example inside covers. They can also go between things, inside things, under things. It may have not been under the bed by the time you started moving everything out.

They tend to live inside walls.

Once I had an air mattress on the floor, and after lifting it after some months, there were some flattened roaches under it. My kind of town, Chicago isn’t…

The only pest I have seen so far in my house is the cockroach. But there are quite a few newts outside where I live. So far none have tried to enter my home.