7 h. ago Crime Scene Cleaners review – Warning! This show is truly vomit

In this astonishing and gross series, we stand witness as teams battle to clean up blood, guts and body fluids. Viewer discretion is very much advised – there will be maggotsIt has been a while since we had a good, honest point-and-boke documentary, is it not? “Boke”, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, means to be sick. I use it here because the onomatopoeia gives a better sense of the fight that precedes the act, especially if – say – a programme is unspooling in front of you that keeps the nausea building until you are past the point of no return. Viewer discretion – and a plastic bowl – is advised.So, then, to Crime Scene Cleaners, a 10-part documentary – yes, 10! – that does exactly what it says on the tin. It follows teams from British and American companies as they move in after bodies have been removed and evidence bagged and tagged by police to clean up anything left behind. “Anything” can mean blood – spattered, accumulated in the bottom of a bath tub, trailed along...

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18 h. ago ITV This Morning guest details grim discovery made in 'tough' crime scene cleaner role

Lauren Baker, a star of Channel 4's Crime Scene Cleaners, appeared on This Morning to discuss the new series and her work

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24 h. ago An Ordinary Case review – Daniel Auteuil directs and stars in tense Ruth Rendell

A careworn husband is accused of murdering his wife in a story inspired by a real life case that dispenses with the genre’s familiar brutalityHere is a fictionalised true crime drama, but one that is more stately and sedate than the garish procedural brutality of regular true crime. There is one gruesome crime-scene photo, but otherwise this could really have been based on something by Ruth Rendell. It is co-written and directed by its star Daniel Auteuil and the original French title is Le Fil (The Thread), after an incriminating thread of material found on the corpse – or perhaps it means the thread of logic behind a legal argument, the loose thread which, if pulled sufficiently, might cause the whole thing to collapse.The action is based on a case recounted by Jean-Yves Moyart, a criminal defence lawyer, who blogged under the name “Maître Mô” and who died in 2021. Grégory Gadebois plays Nicolas Milik (“Ahmed” in Moyart’s blog), a devoted, careworn husband to his alcoholic wife Cé...

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55 h. ago Channel 4's Crime Scene Cleaners shines light on hidden world

Channel 4's latest series Crime Scene Cleaners gives viewers an insight into the dangerous lives of cleaners who head into crime scenes dealing with the aftermath.

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3 w. ago Graduate, 25, found stabbed to death in ditch as lies of killer, 84, exposed

Creative university graduate Mary Schlais was killed on her way to an art show and the only clue was a hat left behind at the crime scene with no explanation until 50 years later

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3 w. ago Madeleine McCann suspect ‘told police questions about him can never be answered’

‘Was I or my vehicle clearly seen near the crime scene on the night of the crime?’ the man reportedly wrote

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3 w. ago Escort found beheaded after fearing for her life as suspect says 'she blackmailed me'

Police discovered an escort who was beheaded near an abandoned farmhouse – with part of her body completely burned – miles away from the scene of the crime buried in brambles

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4 w. ago Trump vows revenge on Boulder terror attack suspect as police make chilling crime scene discovery: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is accused of setting at least eight pro-Israel demonstrators alight in a 'targeted terror attack' in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday.

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4 w. ago Crime scene catharsis: how a darkly comic video game and TV show turned me into a murder clean

Slinging bodies into a pickup as Kovalsky in Crime Scene Cleaner reminded me of Greg Davies in The Cleaner – there is something grimly satisfying about death’s aftermathLately I’ve been playing a new job sim game, Crime Scene Cleaner, while also watching BBC’s comedy series The Cleaner, both of which focus on the aftermath of gruesome murders – sometimes you just need some cosy viewing to take the edge off the day. In the TV show, Greg Davies plays Wicky, the acerbic employee of a government-endorsed clean-up company, while Crime Scene Cleaner’s lead character Kovalsky is a lowly janitor, mopping up blood and disposing of trash to cover up for a mob boss named Big Jim.The crime scenes in both are laughably over the top. Or are they? I’ve never actually seen a real-life murder scene, so perhaps copious blood sprayed over walls and ceilings and the masses of broken furniture is completely normal. Continue reading...

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