Cleanups In New York
First Degree Murder After Deliberation The verdict came in a few months after this cleanup in New York was complete. In most states, first-degree murder is defined as an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning or “lying in wait” for the victim. The need for deliberation and […]
Bloody Confessions In Baltimore
A Cheater Caught and Killed We were called to head back up north to an area just south of Baltimore, MD. These folks have had a weary winter, its been snow and ice here for several weeks. It’s pretty but I’m sure they are getting tired of it. Parts of the city were without power […]
What’s Inside Atlanta
You Never Would Have Guessed! Foul odors of cat urine and feces permeated the home in the southern Georgia suburbs of Atlanta. You would never know from the rest of the neighborhood how nasty the inside of this house was. Its hard to understand what makes someone think having 15 cats in a house or […]
Bludgeoned In Tennessee
We hear a lot about high crime rates in bigger cities It seems that crime rates are high in remote areas of the country. Corbin, KY, for example has a crime rating of 12, with 100 being the safest. This rating averages about 43 crimes per one thousand residents. I looked it up once because […]
Found Dead In Auburn
The Most Horrific Sight You Can Imagine Picture coming home from work and finding your husband’s body. Knowing that he shot himself in the head makes it that much worse. This Auburn GA man shot himself in the head and as you can see the blood spatters were everywhere in the room, all the way […]
Passing Alone In Calhoun
The Word Says It Is “Appointed To Man Once To Die” Each of us know that we will someday die, we do not know when, how or where that will be. The latest cleanup involved a man who died alone in his Calhoun, GA apartment and was not found for nearly two weeks. One of […]
Knoxville, TN Couple Found Dead By Neighbor
These situations are never easy to witness The neighbor started to suspect something was wrong when she didn’t see them for a few days. From what she said the husband had lost his job earlier in the year and the couple had been threatened with eviction. She knew this because she worked in the office part […]
Crime in Kentucky
Kentucky Boys Don’t Play Fair They say that Kentucky residents own an average of four guns per person. That’s some serious business. Especially in Harlan county and the surrounding areas. Something about these folks; they take their family and their business serious. There’s not a lot of work in the mountains of Kentucky. Many of […]
Case Gone Wrong In Jacksonville
Undercover Narcotics Agent Means Risky Business> John D. had been living in one of the worst areas of Jacksonville, FL among some of the cities worst drug dealers and gangsters for several months. He was living as one of them, hanging out, dealing, getting to know who was who and how they operated. He met […]
Nightmare In Jacksonville
Not Just a Bad Dream; A Nightmare In Jacksonville It was a nightmare in Jacksonville when a man was found lying in a pool of blood by his daughter. The front door was partially open, the screen was slashed. John D. was stabbed multiple times. The drawers were ransacked, belongings scattered everywhere throughout the apartment. Was this […]
Death Seen In Smyrna
The Trip Ended In Tragedy This Year Every year four guys from Smyrna, GA took a fishing trip to a cabin by the lake which one of them owned. One of the men stayed behind while the others went on their usual all night fishing trip. When they returned they found him shot to death […]
To Die Alone In Tennessee
Johnson City Man Found Dead After Two weeks This is just part of the scene. Whatever the cause of death, the body decomposed to the point that there was a tremendous stench throughout the whole house. After several days a dead body will start to seep fluids and blood. This is a terrible sight for […]
Hoarding In Montgomery
Hoarding Cleanup Services Cleaning A Stack Up We were called out to this Montgomery, Alabama home for a hoarding cleanup. This one was particularly interesting inside and out. The owner had apparently been living inside in this filth for years and had collected mounds of bottles, boxes, dishes and the worse is the cats and […]
Stabbed in Long Island, NY
The Calls Keep Coming For Cleanup Work! I’m not a detective but it really didn’t take long to figure out what had happened here. We may never know why it happened but its pretty clear there was multiple stabbings and a lot of drugs involved. We came across a lot of empty pill bottles, plastic […]
Multiple Deaths In Atlanta
Murder Then Suicide Coming in to clean up a scene like this is very unsettling. The couple was my age! Who knows what led up to this ending. We could speculate by looking around the apartment at the evidence of plenty of drugs and alcohol being used. There were burning and heavy, greasy smells. Some […]
Dying In Charleston
Alone in Death Have you ever wondered how you would meet the end of your life? I’ve thought about it at times especially when doing the cleanup jobs. Would it be an accidental death, or pass in my sleep? Most of us don’t know and won’t ever know. Sadly, many are alone in their death and […]
Accidental Death In Nashville
Young Boys Play With Gun I spent six hours working on this cleanup job in Nashville, TN. Most of the blood was inside the closet area as this is where the body of the seven year old child was found. As horrifying as it is there were kids playing with a gun and one accidentally shot […]
A “Blast” In Miami
Miami Has A Suicide People have a lot of curiosity about my job and often ask how do we do it day after day. I have to admit I have good days and bad days. Some days I just shake my head in amazement at how people live and what choices they make. Other days […]
Crime Rises In Baltimore
Crime Scene Cleanup Crime Rises In Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland crime rate has been rising over the past few years at an alarming pace. Murders, suicides, double homicides, gang crimes, etc., make the news every day. We were called in on yet another gang related murder. These crime scene cleanups are troubling partly because the victims […]
Animal Sacrifices In Alabama
Strange And Puzzling Scenes – Crime Scene Cleanup We have been called to southern Alabama, just south of Montgomery for a bizarre scene. I hear about devil worshipers, satanists and other cults that sacrifice animals but I had never actually come across one for real. This smelly run down building had been used for ritualistic […]
Violence In Macon County
ABT cleans up violence in Macon County There’s No Rule Of Thumb On Who Suffers From Domestic Violence In the south, there are a lot of really nice people and there are some not so nice people. This Macon County, GA crime scene cleanup was the result of a not so nice person. I read […]
Death and Theft In Alabama
Our Job Is Not Easy But It Is Necessary We got the call around 10 p.m. Monday night to head out to Montgomery, AL for a murder and burglary scene cleanup. Coming home from work an individual found broken glass on the front porch which indicated someone had smashed in the front door and was […]
Splattered Brains In Albany, NY
This is NOT your brain on Drugs Folks we all remember the commercial with the egg frying in the skillet saying “this is your brain on drugs” don’t we? This graphic and horrific picture is not your brain on drugs. This, my friends, is your brain from a self-inflicted shot to the head. Sadly, this […]
Justified Murders?
Do People Get What They Deserve? I’m not the judge of that, I just do my job when told! I’m not responsible for figuring out what happened. However, as someone who has seen a lot of bad situations, hears a lot of information on the “down low”, (none of which I can pass along), I can […]
Two Liter Obsession in Tennessee
Hoarders, Gotta Love ‘Em They keep us busy. We may spend the next three days cleaning up the collection of two-liter bottles and plastic! Hoarders tend to have certain things they love to collect and there is no rhyme or reason. The plastic two-liter bottle collection included gallon jugs, sixteen-ounce soda bottles, etc., in addition […]
Nasty New Jersey Murder
I Am Officially Grossed Out So, if you knew today was going to be the day you were going to be found dead in your house with your brains blown out what would you do? It crossed my mind, in a sick sort of way, geez people. How nasty are you really? Don’t you ever […]
Slit Wrists And Broken Glass
You Can Count On ABT Our crew was called to Charleston, WV to clean up a suicide attempt. This one didn’t end in a fatality but the man nearly bled to death. He slit his wrists using shards of broken glass. Both wrists were cut and bled profusely. His wife found him lying just outside […]
Blood Squirts Everywhere
Chopped Up At Work Who would have thought this horrendous bloody bathroom was the result of an on the job injury? The kitchen prep was chopping and prepping like crazy when the knife slipped and an employee cut off a finger! I honestly can say I have ever seen anything like it considering all this […]
This Is What We Do
Our Job as Cleanup Technician for ABT is Not For Everyone Jane D’s apartment was a bit bare, didn’t really look like she had lived here very long. The kitchen was piled up with dirty dishes, empty whiskey bottles, broken glass, ashtrays overflowing with lipstick-stained cigarette butts. The place reeked of cheap perfume and cigarette […]
Reflections Of 2013
What a busy year for us here at Advanced Bio-Treatment! As you can tell from our photographs and the stories we tell, we have dealt with some very traumatic situations in the past year. We’ve done the dirtiest work imaginable and we are still working! While we hope you never have to face a situation […]
Contagious Norovirus Alert
Hitting the Carolinas and East Coast!! Winter time and the viruses are active. These often severe illnesses are sending employees home from work and children home from school. Currently, there is a highly contagious Norovirus hitting North Carolina and moving into other nearby states. The virus, unlike other bugs we encounter, is severe and often […]
Major Cleanup Job for ABT
I got the call the day after Xmas, we were needed right away for a massive cleanup in Atlanta, GA. Apparently, this was one of the biggest Xmas parties ever. There were boxes from video games, computers, IPads. There was gift wrap all over the front and back yard, on the front porch of the […]
ABT 2013 Toys for Tots
This year Advanced Bio-Treatment has participated in the annual nationwide US Marine Corp Toys for Tots drive. Toys for Tots is a non profit organization who has established their mission “to collect new unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in the […]
A Shocking Trenton Suicide
A Trenton, NJ couple had only been married about a month. We were told that they were getting ready to go to dinner. The wife was taking a shower and heard a loud bang. She got out of the shower and found her husband lying in the floor. He had shot himself with no warning […]
Tennessee Family Destroyed By Violent Domestic Dispute
There is no good time for a murder suicide that wipes out an entire family. As a crime scene cleanup technician, we get calls at all hours of the night or day We don’t have the exact details of what actually led up to the death of the little boy and his mother, killed by […]
Unattended Death In The Tampa Heat
We got the call about an unattended death which had happened during a horrible heat wave. Summers in the south are hot and humid and Tampa was especially that way this year. The guy’s air conditioning had gone out either before or after he died Regardless, it made a terrible situation much worse. If you can […]
Alone With A Kitchen Knife
The day started off with a meeting between the cleanup techs and the foreman at the scene of a suicide. The 14 year old girl’s body was found when her parents returned home from a shopping trip to downtown Atlanta. She had told them she wanted to stay home and catch up on her homework […]
Decomposition & Hoarding Cleanup In Washington D.C.
If you ever come across a scene like this one you will never forget it. There is nothing that makes you realize your human limitations as seeing a decomposing body being eaten by maggots, flies and other vermin. The smell stays with you the rest of your life. As much as you try to be […]
He Ended it Himself
Suicide on Macon County Line Over near Juliette, GA just shy of the famous Macon County Line, (reminds me of the movie that came out in the seventies “Macon County Line”). In the movie they say you will never forget what happened on the Macon County Line. I had been on call that night for […]
Abduction In Tennessee
Woman Held at Gunpoint in Nashville Being a crime scene cleanup professional we never have the same kind of day, which is good if you are one that can’t stand monotony. No clock watching waiting for the five o’clock commute home here. We can be called upon 24/7 for a job. Grant ya, there are […]
Bad Chair Day
Blood Stained Office Chair in Charlotte, NC It’s not unusual to be called out to clean up a bloody crime scene in my line of work. As a crime scene cleanup technician I face this kind of stuff nearly everyday. Some scenes I walk in, immediately start cleaning up and am done in a couple of […]
Alone in Alabama
A Hoarder’s Unattended Death Is it weird that I would rather clean up blood and matter spatter than step foot in a hoarder’s home? Most would think yes, but step into my shoes for this one and then decide. This particular job was a double whammy with hoarding cleanup and an unattended death to decontaminate. […]
Slit Throat in Maryland
Young Man found in Baltimore Even with the rug rolled up, there was blood soaked all over the family room floor. Boxes of matches were scattered all across the floor too, as if to leave a clue of where John D. had been earlier that week or indicated maybe he was smoking more than cigarettes […]
Unanswered Questions
Unattended Death in Washington, D.C. A frantic landlord called ABT last week asking if we could help him immediately. Apparently the apartment needed blood decomposition cleanup and contained a horrific smell in one of the bedrooms at his complex. A man’s body was discovered in one of his apartments who had been dead almost 15 days, […]
Blood bath in Birmingham
Potty Break Anyone? Today was a blood bath. I don’t think I have cleaned such a gory, blood spattered scene before. Dexter (from Showtime) would love this! Very sad this individual did not value his life enough and shot himself in the head by the toilet where I found some chunks of the brain. Seriously […]
HAZWOPER Certified Meth Cleanup
Tennessee Boys Love Their Meth! I found it a little odd that there was a big bare spot in the grass in front of this meth lab in a trailer we were called in to clean just outside Clarksville, TN. I hear meth lab operators dump their chemicals on the grass sometimes and it kills […]
Stabbed To Death In Miami
Man Stabbed to Death A hoarder one day, and a murder scene the next. Did I mention I love my job? So there was this gentleman just relaxing on his couch who suddenly hears a disturbing knock. For this ol’ lad, this was the knock of death. Come to find out, he might have […]
Stinky Business
Ooh Ooh That Smell I had always heard there was a smell of death and wondered if it was true. I am here to tell you that it is very true. Once you experience the smell of decomposition there is nothing you can compare that experience to or even begin to put into words what […]
My “Normal” Day
The Eventful Morning Ok, So I started my day off with the feelings that it was just going to be another normal day in the waste and death clean-up business. Then I remembered there are no “normal” days in my job and bam! “Holy Shit!” I said. I mean literally, holy shit it was. Picture, […]
Stabbed To Death
Road Rage Results in Driver Being Stabbed to Death Monday’s drive home from work was nothing but slick and nasty wet roads and Jeff and Lora P. were both exhausted fighting the traffic. The yellow Volkswagen had seen better days and had a couple of dents in it but it still ran good and got […]