After the tape comes down · Lake County IN
Crime Scene Cleanup
The police investigate. The Lake County Coroner certifies. And then the tape comes down and the scene belongs to you, a fact nobody warns families about until they’re standing in it. CSCleanup Schererville takes it from there: crime scene cleanup and biohazard cleanup from a local, death-first crew, typically about 30 minutes out, with unattended death cleanup, fire damage restoration, water damage restoration, and mold remediation behind them when a scene needs more than decontamination. (888) 629-1222, any hour.
01 / Who does what
The handoff nobody explains
Here’s the sequence, plainly, because confusion about it costs families days. When a violent or traumatic event happens, law enforcement, Schererville PD, a neighboring department, or the county, secures and investigates the scene. If a death is involved, the Lake County Coroner’s Office in Crown Point investigates alongside them, certifies the death, and notifies next of kin. Both agencies do their jobs completely, and neither job includes cleaning. When the investigation concludes and the scene is released, everything that remains, biological contamination, damaged materials, and the residue of the investigation itself, returns to the property owner to resolve.
That’s the moment we exist for. Call us at any point, before release is actually better, and the handoff loses no time:
During the investigation
We coordinate, you breathe
We track the release timeline with the investigators so nothing waits on scheduling. You don’t manage this; you designate a contact and we handle the coordination.
At release
Work starts within hours
The crew arrives in unlettered vehicles, typically about 30 minutes out across core coverage, photographs everything as found, and puts a written scope in your hands before anything is touched.
The work
Complete decontamination
Containment, removal of contaminated materials as regulated waste, hospital-grade disinfection of everything that remains, and removal of the investigation’s own residue, fingerprint powder, chemical applications, markers, because your home shouldn’t carry the event or its processing.
The finish
Their house again
Verified surfaces, licensed disposal records, and a carrier-ready insurance file. When the family walks back in, it’s simply their home, and in most cases the work is done before they ever return.
02 / What discretion means here
The block learns nothing from us
Lake County’s towns are close-built and closer-knit: Schererville cul-de-sacs, Munster and Highland blocks where driveways nearly touch, Dyer and St. John neighborhoods where everyone knows everyone’s cars. After a traumatic event, a family carries the event and the audience, and we’re built to shrink the second burden to nothing. Unlettered vehicles. Quiet crews. Zero discussion of your situation with anyone, on the block, in town, or online, ever. For families managing from out of state, complete photographic documentation means nobody has to walk the scene to verify the work, and nobody local has to be asked.
And because a violent event puts more than a property in crisis, we’ll point you honestly to the help that isn’t ours to give: the victim services every county prosecutor’s office provides, Indiana’s victim assistance resources, and crisis support, ask the officers on your case, and ask us. Making the right referral is part of doing this job right.
03 / Beyond homes
Businesses, rentals, and vehicles
Trauma doesn’t limit itself to living rooms. Storefronts along the US 30 corridor, offices, rental units, and vehicles all produce these calls, and all get the identical standard: containment, removal, disinfection, licensed disposal, documentation. Commercial scenes add a revenue clock, every closed day costs the business, so we schedule with business hours in mind and scope for the fastest honest reopening. Rental scenes add the landlord layer: habitability documentation alongside the insurance file, so the unit’s next chapter starts with a record instead of a rumor. When a scene involves fire, suppression water, or discovers mold behind the walls, the same crew carries those lanes, one number, one file, no handoffs.
04 / Asked constantly
Crime scene cleanup questions
Who is allowed to clean a crime scene in Indiana?
Once law enforcement and the Lake County Coroner release a scene, the property returns to its owner, and the owner chooses who cleans it. There’s no rule forcing you to use anyone in particular, but there are hard realities: biological contamination requires containment, proper protective equipment, hospital-grade disinfection, and regulated-waste disposal that ordinary cleaning services aren’t equipped or authorized to provide. Choosing a professional biohazard crew isn’t a formality, it’s what actually makes the property safe.
How soon after the police finish can cleanup start?
The hour the scene is released, if we’ve coordinated in advance, which is why we encourage families to call even while the investigation is still open. Coordination costs nothing, and it means the family’s timeline loses no days to scheduling.
Do you clean up fingerprint powder and investigation residue?
Yes, all of it. Evidence processing leaves its own layer, powders, chemical applications, markers, and we remove it along with the biological contamination, because a family shouldn’t live with the investigation’s traces any more than the event’s.
Can cleanup happen before my family sees the scene?
That’s our standing goal. We coordinate with investigators around the release so work begins immediately, and in most cases the affected areas are fully remediated before the family returns. Tell us your timeline when you call and we build around it.
Does insurance cover crime scene cleanup?
Homeowners policies typically cover trauma and biohazard cleanup, and Indiana crime victims may also have assistance available through state victim compensation programs, ask the law enforcement agency on your case about victim services. We document everything to carrier standards and flag coverage questions before work begins.
Do you handle businesses and vehicles too?
Yes. Trauma scenes in storefronts, offices, rentals, and vehicles get the identical standard as homes: containment, removal of contaminated materials as regulated waste, hospital-grade disinfection, licensed disposal, and documentation, with business-hour awareness when a commercial space needs to reopen.
After the tape comes down
We make it their home again. (888) 629-1222.
Crime scene and trauma cleanup for Schererville and Lake County, coordinated, complete, and quiet, from a local crew any hour.
Call (888) 629-1222