In this behind-the-scenes video, Codie Sanchez takes a tour of Spaulding Decon's headquarters with the company's owner, Laura Spaulding. The video also highlights the challenges and rewards of running a successful crime scene cleaning business, and how Laura Spaulding has grown her company into a multi-million-dollar enterprise. The video offers a unique and intriguing glimpse into the little-known industry and the incredible story of the woman leading the way...
The motive behind the company’s inception was to alleviate some of the stress from custo...
Laura Spaulding is the owner of Spaulding Decon. She’s a former Kansas City Police Officer, wh...
The motive behind the company’s inception was to alleviate some of the stress from custo...
The motive behind the company’s inception was to alleviate some of the stress from custo...
For the second year in a row, Spaulding Decon has ranked #1 in the category of Crime Scene Cleaning on the Franchise500 List by Entrepreneur Magazine. We're proud to continue our expansion and Nationwide growth this year with new franchise owners.
A few highlights from the Daily Mail TV interview with a Spaulding Decon franchisee, operating in New Jersey. With years of experience handling the worst biohazard situations, we stand behind our proprietary process to ensure the highest standards are achieved. Spaulding Decon of Montville has recently been featured in news publications about how they continue to serve their community.
David Harper and his wife, Amy, are proud residents of Edwardsville, IL and so excited to service their community. This dynamic duo met at work as they both worked in distinct roles for a medical device company. Amy was a trauma ICU nurse for 15 years and currently...
Most people either clean their homes weekly or whenever enough dirt piles up, but for Fiona Mills, cleanliness is a part of her daily life. Mills is a former hoarding technician and franchise ramp-up coach with Spaulding Decon...
As the housing market has gotten more competitive in recent years, Spaulding’s real estate pipeline of extremely messy homes has...
With murders and suicides surging in the United States — homicides rose a record-setting 30 percent in 2020 and have not abated…
Working as a police officer, Laura Spaulding gained first-hand knowledge of what it means to work at a crime scene. The families of victims are under severe emotional distress and usually they are left to clean up the scene themselves. Spaulding was shocked to learn there wasn’t a service available to help clean up – so she decided to do something about it. In 2005 she started her business Spaulding Decon, which specializes in...
Get an early look inside Spaulding Decon, as MSNBC goes behind the scenes of a typical day with our cleaning crews, and a look at a level 5 hoarding cleanout job. See a complex hoarding home cleanout...
My first job as a biohazard technician was cleaning the scene of a double homicide on Christmas Day. It was two family members who had fought and shot each other in the kitchen. There’s no way to ease into biohazard cleaning, but this was a big job. It took me around two and a half days to complete the cleanup...
When Laura’s company started a TikTok, documenting the often bloody, always disgusting spaces they are hired to clean, it began a whole new sub-culture...
The motive behind the company’s inception was to alleviate some of the stress from customers dealing with things such as suicide clean-ups...
Laura Spaulding is the founder of Spaulding Decon Industries, which is a full service restoration company for crime scene cleaning. In this conversation, we talk about the economics of cleaning a crime scene, drug busts, and many more topics. This is one of the most wild episodes yet...
“Helping others is a daily motivation for me to continue going, despite the mess and the trauma." True crime followers know exactly what happens when someone is murdered: Typically, police unspool crime scene tape, homicide detectives and crime scene technicians survey the scene and collect evidence, and the coroner’s office transports the body for an autopsy. But then, everything that remains from the victim is the responsibility of the family or property owner to clean up — a horrific thought, especially for people who have already endured so much trauma and tragedy...
“People love true crime stuff—that’s why Law and Order is so popular. Everyone wants to figure out who did it and what happened. They’re asking the same questions in my comments,” Spaulding said. “They want to know what led that person to commit suicide or die and not be found them for four months. It’s pure curiosity”...
For 15 years, Spaulding Decon has specialized in everything from biohazards, water restoration, and mold removal to hoarding, crime scene, and drug lab clean-ups. But it was only when the business decided to start a TikTok channel earlier this year that their work really started to get recognized. This is not a movie. It is a rare glimpse into the gruesome work of crime scene...
What matters most to Laura Spaulding are providing opportunities and empowering women in business. During this interview she mentions that because of all the hardships faced on the way to building her business, she wants to give back as much as possible. “We are the only franchise of our kind in the world. Our franchisees earn money from helping people in their time of need but also buying their distressed real estate. We have created a wealth platform for our franchise partners that will follow them well beyond this business”...
Spaulding Decon’s founder chats with Rachel from the Hoardganize podcast about dealing with the effects of hoarding disorder, and organizational tips related to hoarding at home. Thousands of people each year are helped in their hoarding dependance, and in this short podcast episode you’ll get to hear more from Laura who has specialized in hoarding cleanup help since 2005...
We speak with Laura Spaulding, the founder of a company that does crime scene, hoarding, meth-lab, and other complex cleanups. When Laura’s company started a TikTok, documenting the often bloody, always disgusting spaces they are hired to clean, it began a whole new sub-culture with millions of fans tuning in to it and other crime scene cleanup pages. Spaulding Decon’s TikTok @crimescenecleaning now has 4.2m followers. Laura explains how the account got started, when she realized it was popular, what t...
