A crime scene cleaner has revealed what it’s like to clean up after a murder scene – from finding body parts to slipping on human fluids.

Clícia Mulet has been working in this field since 2019, after quitting her day job as a hairdresser.

The 32-year-old joined the company her dad also worked for and got stuck in straight away.

But Clícia soon realised just how hard some of these cases can be – with one of her first clean-ups including a space where a man was found five days after his death.

“The person died at the top of a ladder,” Clícia, from Brazil, told http://NeedToKnow.co.uk.

“I was cleaning the steps when I suddenly found a piece of his foot standing there.

“It was scary because there was only skin left and it was a dark color because of the body decomposition process.

“The worst part of the job was that the steps were so slippery because of body fluids and blood that I was very afraid of falling down the stairs.”

Another example includes Clícia discovering a woman’s body at a hotel in a drug smuggling plan gone wrong.

She said: “This was actually in a hotel and a lady that was leaving the country to transport drugs inside her body, but that little bag of drugs exploded.

“She died in her room and her body was only found after three days.

“It was [a] very shocking one [case], it felt like that place was haunted as there had been other deaths in the same building.”

Another shocking clean-up job Clícia and a team of cleaners tackling an abandoned house.

She said: “One of the most memorable jobs was when we were cleaning an abandoned house.

“Two drug addicts had moved in to live there.

“But some time passed and they got into a fight, it didn’t end well, and one of the guys ended up choking the other one.

“His body wasn't found for two weeks.

“However, the house was so dark when we went to clean it as there was no energy, it made it much [scarier].”

Clícia was also appointed to clean the house of a man who had lived alone, with his body undiscovered for days, with a very tragic tale of his death.

She said: “He was very ill and he could not be able to stand up, so he had to defecate and urinate inside soda bottles, and he used to sleep above a very dirty mattress.

“The place was infested by roaches and very dangerous insects, like spiders.

“The neighbours told us that he used to ask for some food and when we were cleaning the apartment, we found that the fridge was full of very smelly, rotted, old food.”

Clícia and her team have specialist cleaning materials, some of which are specifically for blood and other bodily fluids.

She will investigate the scene upon arrival, checking whether blood “splashed from several sides”, including under wooden floorboards or on top of the ceiling.

The cleaner also has to keep an eye out for any further proof of crimes, such as hidden guns or knives.

She said: “I also check how many days the decomposition occurred, because the longer the body stays inside a house or apartment, the worse the odour and the biological risk of getting some infections for bacteria.

“When we finish cleaning the place we also have to deodorise, because anything in the scene has pores and some of them absorbs all the bad odours.

“We consider all the blood as biohazard contaminated as we don’t know if the deceased had any kind of diseases, so we must consider that could have HIV, Hepatitis, and especially all kinds of bacteria that can resist longer periods of time in a decomposition fluids.

“And if the fluids are dried, we must always protect ourselves against airborne pathogens using mask[s] with carbon filters, goggles and necessary PPE.

“The most difficult ones are when the stains are above wooden floor[s].

“There is no way to clean it if it is soaked and filtered, so I must remove all the contaminated pieces.”

However, despite the shocking scenes and horrible cases, Clícia wouldn't change her job for the world.

She added: “In general, people are surprised because no one wants to do this kind of job.

“Some are proud of us and some of them are disgusted.

“We are prepared emotionally for this kind of job, we understand that these events are part of the human problems and we, as professionals, make an effort to not to get us [sic] emotionally and much less to bring them to our homes.

“But as I am a human too, I have a strong empathy for others that are suffering with their loved ones that they just lost, and always will.”

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