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Ben Giles, a window cleaner, had to work almost around the clock to make ends meet. In fact, he was working so many hours that his wife came very close to leaving him. But then, almost by accident, Ben found himself a new line of work where he could earn the equivalent of his monthly salary in just a few hours.

But this is not a job that everyone can do. Ben explains that he never knows what to expect when he comes to work. In a shocking incident, he was sent to clear an estate but came across a body that had not been discovered for 15 years. The corpse, reduced to a skeleton, “was wearing a sturdy leather belt and leather shoes on its skeletal feet,” Ben said.

Surprisingly, this isn’t the scariest thing Ben has seen in his career as a biohazard cleaner. One Daily Mail While quoting from his upcoming book The Specialist, Ben recalled a job that had a particularly profound impact on him.

“It was a normal suburban house,” he said. “Neat and tidy. Coats on hangers. Keys in a bowl by the door. But the kitchen was a massacre.”

It turned out that the man living in the house had gone crazy and brutally murdered his wife: “There was so much blood,” Ben recalled.

“It was everywhere: on the blinds, in the cutlery drawers, in the cupboards, on the floor, on the walls, on the counters, on the door handles and even inside the washing machine. There were handprints, fingerprints, fine droplets from the violent shaking of an object covered in blood.”

What so horrified Ben was the casual nature of the event; the idea of ​​a perfectly normal family life suddenly turning into a brutal murder: “Everything we clean tells some kind of story, often about the last moments of life.” he said.

Ben had started crime scene cleanup after being hired by a landlord to clean an apartment that had recently been vacated. “The tenant wasn’t very tidy,” the landlord told him.

That turned out to be an understatement. The bathroom was completely filled with urine and feces. It was a disgusting and smelly job. But for a few hours’ work Ben pocketed £2,000.

After that baptism of fire, Ben enrolled in a course exploring the brutal underpinnings of his new career. He learned the harsh realities of decay, the life cycles of flies and maggots, and the deadly consequences of hantavirus, a rodent-borne disease.

And now, he regularly cleans up properties where something tragic happened. In one case, he said, he cleaned the house of a man who had died and lay undiscovered for six weeks.

“His dog was there with him and it ate his face and most of his legs,” the lawyer handling the dead man’s estate told him.

But as grisly as the task was, it was extremely lucrative: “People don’t bargain on cost,” he said. “They pay in full so they don’t have to think about what the job entails.”