On Wednesday, Daniel Ryan Clark was sentenced to ten years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for attempting to dispose of a woman’s body in the garbage.
Arvada Police officers were called to The Perch on 52nd apartment complex on Sep. 15, 2025, after a maintenance worker found the body of 29-year-old Chelsea Beadles inside a plastic tote covered with bedding that had been placed near a dumpster. Officers say she was partially unclothed and had suffered numerous injuries. Despite that, charges were never filed in her death.
Dr. Dawn Holmes, a forensic pathologist with the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, said the cause of Beadles’ death was “undetermined” because there was no evidence of significant anatomic trauma, adding “in consideration of the unclear circumstances surrounding the decedent’s death, a traumatic death cannot be definitively excluded.”
Cell phone and Facebook records led investigators to determine she was with Clark in the hours before her death. They also tied the plastic tote and bedding to Clark…