Some business stories begin with an idea. The story behind CSI: Clean Scene Investigators began with lived experience, loss, investigation and a clear understanding of what families face after the crime scene tape comes down.
In its June 2026 feature, VoyageDallas interviewed Christina Hester, Founder and CEO of CSI: Clean Scene Investigators, about the path that led from personal tragedy to forensic work, financial crime investigations, entrepreneurship and specialty cleanup.
The feature, titled “Exploring Life & Business with Christina Hester of CSI: Clean Scene Investigators,” captures something central to the company: CSI was not built from a generic cleaning background. It was built from firsthand experience with the realities surrounding trauma, death investigations and the aftermath families are left to navigate.
From the family side of tragedy to the investigative side
Christina's understanding of trauma began long before she entered the forensic field. After losing her sister when she was young, she grew up with an awareness of how suddenly a family can be changed by one event.
She later became a Crime Scene Investigator, working inside the very environments most families never expect to encounter. The job required careful documentation, evidence processing, observation and composure around death, violence and grief.
That experience also revealed a reality many people do not learn until they are facing it themselves: law enforcement investigates a crime scene, but law enforcement generally does not clean the property after the scene is released.
The gap families are left to navigate
After an investigation is complete and a scene is released, families, property owners, landlords and other authorized parties may be left responsible for arranging professional remediation of blood, bodily fluids, decomposition and other biohazardous contamination.
That gap is one of the reasons CSI: Clean Scene Investigators exists.
CSI provides professional crime scene cleanup in Dallas-Fort Worth, biohazard cleanup, unattended death cleanup, decomposition remediation, hazardous hoarding cleanup, forensic odor removal and vehicle biohazard cleanup throughout DFW and North Texas.
A career change that became a mission
After leaving crime scene investigation, Christina worked in financial crimes, including cryptocurrency investigations. A major medical crisis later forced another reinvention and eventually led her to build CSI: Clean Scene Investigators.
The company combines investigative discipline with trauma-informed service. Christina's background influences how CSI approaches scenes, how clients are spoken to, how conditions are documented and how the team handles situations most people never expected to face.
That is also why the VoyageDallas feature matters beyond a traditional founder profile. It provides independent editorial context around the person behind the company and the experiences that shaped its mission.
Seeing the story in print
The online VoyageDallas interview was published in June 2026. Receiving the physical two-page magazine spread made the milestone tangible in a different way.
For Christina, the feature represents more than business recognition. It connects the different chapters of her life: a family member affected by tragedy, a Crime Scene Investigator, a Financial Crimes Analyst and now the founder of a company serving people during some of the hardest moments of their lives.
The through-line is the same: what happens after something difficult changes everything, and what it takes to move forward from there.
Read the full VoyageDallas feature
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