If you must clean up a violent crime scene for your family, you can call us to answer questions. We do not know everything about crime scene cleanup. We do know that crime scene cleanup for the inexperienced is not something we wish on anyone.

It is important too for callers to ask for our prices so that they can compare our prices with our competition. We believe that competition is the American way, and competition in crime scene cleanup helps many families save money. It is important to save money when hiring crime scene cleaners so that you have money for other important tasks. We understand because we have cleaned up after many violent crime scenes. So we have met many people in different economic situations.

We have also cleaned up after many suicides and many unattended deaths. When we started our business we wondered what people would think of us when we arrived to help by cleaning up their blood loss event, whatever its cause. We found that people were pleased to have us help. Cleaning well showed our clients that we are professional biohazard cleaners. We never needed to worry about what people thought of us again because our work and prices speak for us.

I mentioned "biohazard cleaners." We are biohazard cleaners because cleaning up blood and other material has some hazard to it. It is important to clean carefully because of bloodborne pathogens. Bloodborne pathogens are germs that make people sick if ingested, injected, inhaled, or even touched to an eye. Blood from suicides and unatteded deaths are pretty much the same. We need to believe that they are infectious until we have cleaned the death scene for a while.

We "reduce" blood and related material from mattresses, couches and other furniture.

Sometimes our clients want to talk about what has happened. We listen because we owe it to them. We become sounding boards, not counselors or priests. When asked to share we talk about our experiences and what we have read.

We believe that violent crimes occur against someone the perpetrator knows, most often. These are not news worthy stories, usually. Violent crimes against strangers seem to make the news if a store his heldup and someone is shot to death.

We suspect that deadly violence against family members and strangers could go the other direction. We mean that many people who commit violence against others were just as likely to commit harm to themselves. We have read that about one-third of criminally violent people are suicidal.

Also in 1993 some sociologist learned that of 3,764 students, those reporting serious suicidal behavior also had the highest level of aggression toward others.

Sometimes crime scene cleanup follows