Police detectives and the Yolo County Coroner's office are continuing their investigation of a Davis man who is accused of taking an array of human body parts, allegedly to study anatomy at his Davis home.

Davis police arrested David Lawrence Beale, 46, two weeks ago after a search of his home and a rented storage locker found 157 pounds of human remains. Some of the remains may have been taken from a human waste removal location at UC Davis Medical Center that Beale had access to in the early to mid 1990s when he worked as an autopsy assistant.

The company he worked for had contracted at times with the Sacramento County coroner's office and the medical center. In 1997, the medical center discontinued its autopsy service.

Yolo County officials have been working to identify the recovered remains, and Davis police officers have been working with detectives from the UC Davis Police Department to identify where remains were taken.

Identified thus far are the torso of a Folsom man who died of natural causes at age 74 in 1990 (identified through a recovered pacemaker); and the head of a 56-year-old Solano County man, who died of cancer in 1990.

Beale has been released on bail. His arraignment is set for Aug. 18.