Copenhagen, Denmark (CNN) Divers have found the head and legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, Danish police said Saturday at a news conference. 
 
 The freelance journalist went missing after boarding a privately built submarine with its Danish inventor, Peter Madsen, on August 10. She was working on a story. 
 
 Madsen is accused of killing Wall. He denies the allegation and has called her death an accident. 
 
 The police conducted an autopsy on Wall's head and found no sign of cranium fracture or violence, said Jens Moeller Jensen, who is leading the murder investigation for Copenhagen police. Identification was based on dental records from Sweden, he said. 
 
 "We found a bag with Kim Wall's clothing; shirt, skirt, socks and shoes, and also a knife and lead pieces weighing them down," Moeller Jensen said. "Around noon we found a leg, then another leg, and shortly thereafter we found a head, also in a bag weighted down by several metal pieces." 
 
 The submarine dove for several hours overnight from August 10 to 11, during which time police believe Wall's body was cut to pieces, Moeller Jensen said. 
 
 Officers search for missing body parts of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on August 23, close to the site where her torso was found two days earlier. 
 
 Divers continued to search Koege Bay on Saturday for the journalist's arms. 
 
 Police were still working to determine Wall's cause of death, Moeller Jensen said, adding that investigators were focusing on her neck and throat area. 
 
 Wall's headless torso washed up on August 21 on an island near Copenhagen, and investigators were able to match blood in the submarine and torso. The charge sheet alleges Madsen cut Wall's body into pieces, punctured her torso and tied pipes to it to make it sink to the bottom of the sea. 
 
 Madsen: Wall was hit by metal hatch 
 
 According to Madsen, Wall was climbing to the top of a platform where he was holding the hatch. He slipped and lost his grip on the hatch, which then hit her on the head, he said. He told the Copenhagen City Court that Wall was badly injured and probably dead. 
 
 The inventor said he panicked and thought about suicide before deciding instead to dump her body at sea and sink the submarine. 
 
 He denied having a saw on his vessel when Wall accompanied him, DR reported. 
 
 Madsen remains in custody while the investigation continues. He has denied accusations that he was responsible for her death. 
 
 Peter Madsen, pictured on August 11, claims Kim Wall died in an accident aboard his submarine. 
 
 Talented writer goes missing 
 
 The submarine was found on August 11, about 15 hours after it had departed Copenhagen. Madsen was rescued from the sinking vessel and brought ashore, where he was picked up by police, but there was no trace of the missing journalist. 
 
 Madsen was later arrested and held in custody on suspicion of killing Wall. The inventor originally claimed he had dropped Wall off on land on the night of August 10, according to a police statement. 
 
 If Madsen is charged with murder and convicted, he faces a sentence of five years to life. The next pre-trial hearing is scheduled for October 31. 
 
 Wall, a graduate of Columbia University and London School of Economics, was based between Beijing and New York. A talented writer, her work appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian and TIME, among publications. 
 
 Correction: This story has been updated to clarify that some of Wall's remains were found in a separate bag from her clothing.
– Submarine owner Peter Madsen was in court for a detention hearing on Tuesday, and provided an account of how he says Swedish journalist Kim Wall lost her life. Madsen framed it as an accident involving what Reuters describes as a "heavy hatch cover," saying, "I lose my foothold and the hatch shuts. Kim had been severely hurt and was laying with an intense bleeding. There was a pool of blood where she had landed." The Copenhagen Post reports the cover weighs about 155 pounds, and reports that you had to pass through the hatch in order to reach the bridge to steer the submarine. Madsen testified that he sailed for deeper waters intending to commit suicide, but instead buried Wall at sea. The Local reports that Danish prosecutors are asking that Madsen remain in custody. Madsen's lawyer says his client still pleads not guilty on the manslaughter charge, but is guilty of desecrating Wall’s body in that he buried her at sea; Madsen claims her body was intact when he disposed of it, though it was not found that way.