Woman, 32, who quit her job as a hairdresser to become a CRIME SCENE cleaner reveals the grim realities of her morbid profession – from finding body parts to slipping on human fluids

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

Brazilian-based Clícia Mulet has been working in the 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 realized 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.

Brazilian-based Clícia Mulet (pictured) has been working a crime scene cleaner since 2019 after quitting her day job as a hairdresser

‘The person died at the top of a ladder. I was cleaning the steps when I suddenly found a piece of his foot standing there,’ she recalled.

‘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.

‘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 said.

‘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 tackled was an abandoned house.

She has revealed what it’s like to clean up after a murder site – from finding body parts to slipping on human fluids 

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

‘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,’ she said 

‘One of the most memorable jobs was when we were cleaning an abandoned house,’ she said.

‘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 booked to clean the house of a man who had lived alone with his body undiscovered for days.

‘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,’ she recalled.

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

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‘The neighbors 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.

Sometimes the places she cleans are ‘infested by roaches and very dangerous insects like spiders,’ she explained

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 if blood had been ‘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.

‘I also check how many days the decomposition occurred because the longer the body stays inside a house or apartment, the worse the odor and the biological risk of getting some infections for bacteria,’ she explained.

‘When we finish cleaning the place we also have to deodorize because anything in the scene has pores and some of them absorb all the bad odors.

‘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 (personal protective equipment).

‘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.’

‘When we finish cleaning the place we also have to deodorize because anything in the scene has pores and some of them absorb all the bad odors,’ the cleaner added

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

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

‘We are prepared emotionally for this kind of job, we understand that these events are part of the human problems,’ she confessed 

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

‘In general people are surprised because no one wants to do this kind of job,’ she admitted.

‘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 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.’