An Arvada man will spend a decade in prison after tampering with a 29-year-old woman’s dead body.

Jefferson County District Court Judge Megan Miloud sentenced 41-year-old Daniel Ryan Clark to 10 years Wednesday after Clark pleaded guilty to a charge of tampering with a deceased human body. Clark will also have to a serve a mandatory three years of parole, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Clark was arrested on Sept. 15 after the Arvada Police Department was called to the Perch Apartments — located at 7791 W. 52nd Ave. — when a member of the maintenance team contacted police. The maintenance person had discovered the body inside of a plastic tote next to a trash dumpster within an enclosure, police said.

The body was later identified as Chelsea Beadles. The 111-pound body was found partially unclothed and with “numerous” injuries, according to the district attorney’s office.

Cell phone and Facebook records pinpointed Clark as a suspect. Clark had been with Beadles right before her death.

Investigators then interviewed Clark and executed a search warrant, eventually leading to Clark’s arrest. He was then charged with tampering with a deceased body and tampering with evidence.

The second charge was dropped as part of his plea deal.

A forensic pathologist with the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, Dawn Holmes, classified the cause and manner of death as “undetermined.”

While she found no evidence of physical trauma, she added that a traumatic death “cannot be definitively excluded” due to the unexplained circumstances.

Still, investigators did not find enough evidence to support additional charges.

Clark continued to deny having any hand in Beadles’ death, later claiming he did not know the timeline of her death due to drug use.

Chelsea’s mother described her daughter as “a sweet soul,” adding that the family has gone through extreme anguish due to never knowing what happened and how she was discarded “like trash.”

“No parent should have to collect their child’s body from the trash,” she told the court.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Brenna Zortman said she was “so sorry we can’t provide the family with more information about what happened. It’s not fair.”

Zortman added that the sentencing “feels so abysmally low for what happened.”

“I’m owning up to the stuff I did,” Clark said to the court. “I didn’t harm her in any way, shape, or form.”