Cleaner clears home after body was decomposing in it for 19 months

Meet the ‘trauma’ cleaners with the gory job of mopping up bodily fluids and transforming putrid rooms after people living alone are found decomposing

• Crime scene cleaner shared gory details of cleaning worst homes in Australia
• Jerry Cook cleaned home after tenant’s body had decomposed for 19 months
• Veteran cleaner has visited murder and suicide scenes and hoarder’s hovels 

A crime scene cleaner has shared the gory details of his job such as cleaning a house after the tenant’s body had been decomposing in it for 19 months.  

National Trauma and Crime Scene Cleaning managing director Jerry Cook said he received the callout to clean the home in Sydney.

The request was no less bizarre than his previous jobs that have required him to clean up murder scenes and suicides, clear out hoarder’s homes and mop up faeces.

‘I’ve cleaned houses where people have had busted varicose veins and blood spurts out, people who have been sick, people who have crazy parties,’ Mr Cook said. 

The 52-year-old told Daily Mail Australia he has been working in the profession for 32 years and proudly admitted he has never vomited – but he has come very close to it.

‘I did a job a little while ago where I cleaned a house in Sydney after the owner had been decomposing in it for 19 months,’ he said. 

A crime scene cleaner has shared the gory details of his job that included cleaning a house after the tenant’s body had been decomposing in it for 19 months

The 52-year-old told Daily Mail Australia he has been working in the profession for 32 years and proudly admitted he has never vomited – but he has come very close to it (pictured, Mr Cook offers cleaning services across the country and works with sister company Trauma Clean in Western Australia)

‘I’ve cleaned houses where people have had busted varicose veins and blood spurts out, people who have been sick, people who have crazy parties,’ Mr Cook said

‘The owner had no living relatives in Australia. They only had one living relative overseas and they didn’t get on with them. 

‘The timber dwelling had absorbed the odour. The smell had gone right through, underneath to the soil. The whole place had to be excavated.’ 

Mr Cook revealed that wasn’t even his worst experience and that his first time dealing with a decomposing body was even more horrendous.

Mr Cook began working as a commercial cleaner when he was 18 years old in Queensland.

‘We started off doing carpet cleaning and water damage work,’ he said. ‘We did fire damage restoration work, backed up toilets in the bathrooms.’

His first exposure to a decomposing body came after a real estate agent called him and asked if he could clean out a home in Cairns.

‘I was told by the police that the Yellow Pages had been doing the deliveries,’ he said.

‘They actually discovered the body slouched over the dining chair and the body was virtually melted from all the decomposing.’

Mr Cook said the odour and bodily fluids had been absorbed into every corner of the two-storey home. 

‘The body virtually filled the whole dining room,’ he said. ‘The body fluids went into the kitchen, into the wiring downstairs. The light had to be cleaned up.’

The clean-up took the manpower of two workers and five days to finish.

‘I’ve never ever seen that in all my life,’ he said. ‘The place was loaded with flies and maggots, it was disgusting.’ 

Mr Cook’s workers take every measure to protect themselves and wear biohazard suits, double and triple layered gloves and respirators

Ms Cook’s employees also clean up the residences of hoarders and party animals 

Mr Cook has a 42-strong work crew that operates right across the country 

One of the most shocking clean-ups came after a person deliberately jumped off the 27th floor of a building.

‘The person had hit three balconies on the way down,’ he said. ‘One of the legs was severed and caught on one of the railings.’ 

Mr Cook has a 42-strong work crew that operates right across the country. They also work with the sister company Trauma Clean in Western Australia.

His workers take every measure to protect themselves and wear biohazard suits, double and triple layered gloves and respirators.

Mr Cook said even though his workers were well protected, there was nothing to stop the terrible odours.

‘Staff have vomited,’ he said. ‘Numerous staff have vomited in their masks.’  

Mr Cook said even though his workers were well protected, there was nothing to stop the terrible odours

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