What do they do to clean up blood from a crime scene?

Everything you want to know….and maybe a few things you don’t

@cheebdragon Ahh yes, I stumbled across that but it didn’t really explain the procedure, just general stuff.

I was at a biker bar once and a guy from one gang stabbed another outside. Guy ended up bleeding out in the parking lot. After the cops/ambulance came the firetrucks came to clean up. They just kinda sprayed the lot down with the hose and that was it. The stain was still pretty visible for the next month or so.

This blood was definitely bio-hazard materiel. It came from a meth head :P

How they clean really depends on each situation and location, the descriptions of what tools they use and why they use them (page 2) should give you a good general idea of standard procedure.

Peripheral comment 1: I once helped the owner of a cleaning service write some promotional materials. His service specialized in “red stains,” which he said are notoriously difficult to remove. Naive as I must have been, I asked, “You mean like red wine?” “Yes,” he said, “or blood.” That’s when I learned that once the law enforcement, health services, and other personnel leave the scene of a violent incident in a home, the cleanup is left to the remaining residents. They never show that part in the movies.

Peripheral comment 2: When (long ago) our next-door neighbor and his housemates were taken out in a drug-related hit, it was the neighbor’s pregnant daughter who came in and cleaned up the next day. Later the landlord patched the bullet holes and repainted.

There are companies which specialize in this (primarily for residential properties) so that the aforementioned pregnant daughter doesn’t get stuck with the job.

Many of the owners of these companies usually have either a law enforcement or medical background so they know what materials to use and the cleaners are generally wearing biohazard gear and clothing.

Can you imagine what it’s like if the body is of someone who lived alone and not discovered until a significant time later?

I once saw a documentary about someone who owned such a company and how they got into this line of work. It was fascinating (even tho rather gruesome).