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☠️ What is it like to be a... CRIME SCENE CLEANER? 😱 · The KIIS Breakfast Wrap with Chris, Amy & Jack

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  Speaker 1: What's it like to be.
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  Speaker 2: A crime scene cleaner?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Now, as a journalist you hear about the most terrific stories,
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  Speaker 2: and you know often often a lot of shit will
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  Speaker 2: go down in someone's house, right, or even people will
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  Speaker 2: be found dead after months, you know, like old people.
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  Speaker 2: It's so sad. So someone has to go in there
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  Speaker 2: and get these homes ready for you know, renting out
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  Speaker 2: again or to be sold. Now, Terry set up her
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  Speaker 2: own business with her partner Tim. It's called Sydney Crime
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  Speaker 2: and Trauma Cleaning. Now they go around clean up crime scenes,
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  Speaker 2: hoarder houses, sewage leaks. They'll also do meth testing when
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  Speaker 2: the police need to know what's been in there. There's
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  Speaker 2: just nothing they won't do. And if there's no crime,
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  Speaker 2: they also just will come and clean your carpet, so
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  Speaker 2: they also do the normal stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So on with us.
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  Speaker 2: Now I get a Terry, Hey, you Erry, Hey, how
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So, Terry, I mean I can't even watch the news.
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  Speaker 5: Just hearing about stories is enough to like keep me
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  Speaker 5: up at night. Do you like kind of like grim
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  Speaker 5: and gruesome things or are you able to compartmentalize and
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  Speaker 5: is this purely just a job?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I do like I do like gross and disgusting things. However,
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  Speaker 3: if someone come to me with a cut, for example,
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  Speaker 3: I'm out undone, I can't have anything.
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  Speaker 1: To do with that.
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  Speaker 3: But going into a crime scene, it's totally different.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the main reason I'm guessing you guys did
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  Speaker 4: this is it would pay quite well because not many
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  Speaker 4: people want to do this.
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  Speaker 3: Right, that's correct, And there's only a few companies in
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  Speaker 3: the state in Australia that actually do this crime scene cleaning,
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  Speaker 3: so it is kind of a it is business, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, then again, it's also satisfying when you go
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  Speaker 3: in and you see this big mess and then you
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  Speaker 3: clean it and the family comes in and go well,
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, it's satisfying as well.
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  Speaker 2: So if you can't deal with a cut or blood,
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  Speaker 2: does that mean it's like there's there's no bodies or
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  Speaker 2: anything like that by the time you get there.
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  Speaker 3: So there's no bodies, that's correct. So I've never seen
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  Speaker 3: a dead body. That's always removed before we get there.
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  Speaker 3: But there's all the other stuff. So there's blood, there's
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  Speaker 3: other body bits, there's you know, decomposed bits.
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  Speaker 1: So we see all of that and you're fine, we
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  Speaker 1: don't actually see it.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, you're fine with like, Like I can imagine like
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  Speaker 5: if there was you know, some sort of murder or
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  Speaker 5: something in a bedroom, there would be a lot of
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  Speaker 5: blood and everything about. You're fine, You're okay to see
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  Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So the only thing I.
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  Speaker 5: Could do right.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that I dislike a lot is maggots,
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  Speaker 3: And that is there's lots of maggots when you go
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  Speaker 3: into particularly people that have passed away and haven't been
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  Speaker 3: found for weeks or months, there's lots of maggots, lots
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  Speaker 3: of flies.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the saddest one you've had to do? You know,
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  Speaker 4: the one that's really stuck most memorable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so the saddest one, I think, And this
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  Speaker 3: goes for a lot of them, it doesn't. It's not
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  Speaker 3: just sort of isolated to one crime scene that we've done,
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of times the people have been there
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  Speaker 3: for weeks, like I said, all months, and then you'll
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  Speaker 3: go and clean it and you'll have a neighbor come
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  Speaker 3: up and say, oh, what happened, Oh, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: passed away or she passed away, and they say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I used to have a beer with him every afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: And then one day he just didn't turn up and
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know what happened, And it was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: why didn't you go and knock on his.
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  Speaker 1: Door, or why didn't you, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, after you didn't turn up the first time, why
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  Speaker 3: didn't you alert someone to there being a problem or
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  Speaker 3: potentially being a problem. That's the saddest thing for me
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  Speaker 3: is that you know, no one checks on people these days.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is really sad when you think about it.
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  Speaker 5: If I didn't see my neighbor for like even a
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  Speaker 5: couple of days, I'd be knocking on their door.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so you would.
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  Speaker 5: You wouldn't terry? Do you find I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: show it was, but I remember seeing clips on socials
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  Speaker 5: about these people who go to hoarder's house houses and
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  Speaker 5: like you open doors and just piles and piles of
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  Speaker 5: rubbish and stuff. Do you find them the most challenging?
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  Speaker 3: They're probably for us that they take a long time
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  Speaker 3: to clean out. And yes, we've been to houses where
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  Speaker 3: we me I've stood on a pile of stuff that's
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  Speaker 3: been in a room and I couldn't stand up straight
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  Speaker 3: because the my head hit the roof. It was actually
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  Speaker 3: piled to the almost to the ceiling. They're probably the
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  Speaker 3: most challenging, but they're probably also the most disgusting because
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  Speaker 3: there's food at the bottom of that rubbish. There's cockroaches,
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  Speaker 3: there's silver fish, there's all this other stuff that I
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  Speaker 3: would rather do a crime scene clean.
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  Speaker 5: So you don't you, like, even just hearing you talk
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  Speaker 5: about that kind of stuff, I feel a bit like
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  Speaker 5: squeamish already, do you not? Do you ever get squeamish
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  Speaker 5: or feel a bit uneasy?
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  Speaker 3: Not uneasy or squeamish, but you sort of go when
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  Speaker 3: you pull something out, you go, oh far out that
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  Speaker 3: really stinks and you kind of have to you're out
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  Speaker 3: for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, other than that, No.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Terry, going back to all this cash you may doing,
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  Speaker 2: is per Does it depend on the like, the severity
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  Speaker 2: of what you're dealing with, how much you charge?
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  Speaker 3: No, it depends on when you can't you talk about
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  Speaker 3: a hood to clean. It depends on how many skip
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  Speaker 3: bins we have to get to throw all of the
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  Speaker 3: stuff out, So it depends on how long it's going
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  Speaker 3: to take us as well.
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  Speaker 2: So can I ask then, like, what's the most you've
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  Speaker 2: charged for one house? Like one situation?
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: And how long would that have taken you?
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  Speaker 1: That took us a week?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it's not bad for a week. Yeah, hey, before
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  Speaker 4: we let you go, what about emotionally and your mental health?
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  Speaker 4: Have you got to have counseling? You're seeing some pretty
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  Speaker 4: severe things. How are you and your and your husband
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  Speaker 4: with your partner?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Where? Ok.
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  Speaker 3: Mentally, I think we go in and we see it
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  Speaker 3: as being helpful to the family, to.
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  Speaker 1: The person that's passed away.
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  Speaker 3: And if I can tell you a story, we went
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  Speaker 3: to parks and Old Farmer, a guy there. I believe
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  Speaker 3: in ghosts, my partner doesn't. And we went up there
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  Speaker 3: and we were cleaning out thisy's house and he was
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  Speaker 3: clearly a smoker, but the smoke the house didn't smell
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  Speaker 3: of smoke. And as we were cleaning the bathroom, this
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  Speaker 3: smell of cigarette smoke came out of the bathroom and
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  Speaker 3: I just said, we know you're here, but we're cleaning
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  Speaker 3: it up so your family doesn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: And the smoke disappeared.
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  Speaker 3: It just went And I said to him, did you
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  Speaker 3: did you get that?
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, no, are you just making it up?
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  Speaker 4: My husband, and that would be me as well. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'm good on you, Terry.
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  Speaker 2: What on Terry, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Sydney Crime and Trauma cleaning that is Terry wow.
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  Speaker 2: Or Southern carpet cleaning. If you just need your carpets done,
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  Speaker 2: I get.
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  Speaker 5: Around to do my couch. Actually it's a bloody good job,
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  Speaker 5: she would