Why is bleach used to clean up a crime scene?

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I’ve seen this in multiple movies/shows where they just dumb bleach on everything. What does it actually do?
Does it erase things like finger prints?

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Its basically chemically burning everything. I think the main advantage is that it stops the smell and any bugs. I tried to clean up roadkill once infront of our house when I was younger and put the corpse in a plastic bag waiting for the trash to collect it, but after like two days outside the stench was repulsive and there was very steady drone from all the flies around.

It was a rabbit, but ou KNEW something died somewhere 10 meters around the corpse.

Anyways I dumped like a half liter of 5% bleach and within seconds the odor is totally gone, all the flies are gone, all the maggots aren’t moving… its honestly a miracle chemical.

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