A Bucket, a Mop, and a Sledgehammer

After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t
responsible for cleaning up. That’s not their job. The coroner
takes the body, the police conduct their investigation, and then
everyone leaves. But the blood, and the rubber gloves, and the
uneaten food in the refrigerator are all left behind. Sandra
Pankhurst didn’t like imagining that. So she decided to clean it
up. She became a crime scene cleaner. To learn more about Sandra’s
story, you can read The Trauma Cleaner, by Sarah Krasnostein. Say
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