Larry Douglas has an unusual job. As president and CEO of Baton Rouge-based XTREME Cleaners, he dispatches staff to clean up what are often gruesome crime scenes once the police are gone. They do ...

The morning after her grandson was gunned down just steps from her front door, Addie Dempsey stepped outside and saw the blood still there, dark and unmoving. Raheem Hargust was 36. He had died the ...

Although state and federal regulations govern the disposal of medical waste, only California and Florida require crime-scene business owners to obtain a Trauma Waste Practitioner permit before ...

Jeremy Cumberford, discusses the meticulous process of crime and trauma scene remediation. Jeremy Cumberford, Owner and President of Crime Scene Cleaners, discusses the meticulous process of crime and ...

Some jobs come from bleedings that are overwhelming to clean up Other jobs stem from the deceased: Relatives die unnoticed and decompose John Krusenstjerna has earned the trust of funeral directors ...

There is blood all over the room. It’s on the walls and it has seeped into the cracks in the floor. There are smears of it on the doorknob and bloody handprints on the lampshade, the light switch, and ...

They've been called in to tear up carpeting and scrub down walls at a crime scene, where they work in protective suits and breathe through respirators. On any given day, they could be dealing with ...