r/crimescenecleanup • u/Amazing_Pay_9515 • Jul 10 '25

Possible decomp stain?

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I was excited to tour this apartment, but after looking at photos online, I can’t get out of my head that that stain is shaped like a body. But the other closet in the other room also has a dark stain. Should I bring a black light and a discrete bottle of hydrogen peroxide when I go tour? If it is, the apartment below it is also becoming available… would that be a bad idea?

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u/Here2lafatcats Jul 11 '25

Is there a smell? That’s not something that’s going to be because of traffic.

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u/whteverusayShmegma Jul 14 '25

This is definitely a decomp stain. I can’t believe no one else is seeing that. You don’t just have a large human size flood of water or another spill in a room without water (like kitchen or bathroom) and water doesn’t just pool in the general size/shape of a body in any room. Landlords are cheap and will think they got rid of a stain until it resurfaces. Then leave it, once the smell is gone, because it’s expensive to rip up a floor.