Is crime scene cleanup America’s forgotten public service?

Is crime scene cleanup America’s forgotten public service?

Three years have passed since four college students were brutally murdered in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho . And while the crime scene photographs have long faded from headlines, this startling moment remains: Moscow Police Chief James Fry standing before cameras to announce that a private company would be responsible for sanitizing the bloodstained house.

For most Americans watching, this revelation was a shock. The police weren’t handling the cleanup. No government agency was stepping in. Instead, a private cleanup crew, of which most people were unaware, would do the traumatizing work.

The home on King Street had become a symbol of unspeakable tragedy. Investigators with decades of experience called it the worst s