Gemma Bath
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Podcast Appearances
She enters, and as soon as her eyes focus on the hallway, she feels a gasp of horror rising in her throat.
You're listening to a Mamma Mia podcast.
It looks like five litres of red paint has been thrown down it.
Smears made by hands can be seen all along the walls.
It's blood.
Endless amounts of blood.
She soon discovers it in every room of the house.
In the bedroom, a wooden bed frame lies in pieces on the floor.
In the skirting board next to it, a gaping hole.
This is a murder scene.
One of the worst Donna has ever seen.
And she's been hired to clean it.
I'm Gemma Bath and you're listening to True Crime Conversations, a podcast exploring the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them.
That balliner job haunts Donna.
She can still see the smiling photos of the couple on the fridge.
But after witnessing what he did to her in that house, she felt her pain in every room.
She thinks of that young woman often.
Donna Naylor was a hairdresser on the Gold Coast of Australia for nearly a decade before deciding to turn her life on its head at the age of 25 to become a crime scene cleaner instead.
It's a job that required her to walk alongside death, witness unimaginable grief and see scenes reminiscent of horror films.
Some jobs took hours.