Boyfriend of missing BYU coed interviewed by police

PROVO — The boyfriend of a missing college student was put "through the mill" by police and took a lie-detector test, his father said Thursday, a week after the 22-year-old woman disappeared.

Police, meanwhile, made a public plea for help for any information about Camille Cleverley and her missing bicycle.

"We have a daughter, a sister, a friend that is missing," said Chief Craig Geslison, who choked up at a news conference. "We have a community that cares. We want to find her."

Cleverley, a senior at Brigham Young University, was last seen riding her bike here Aug. 30, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Hundreds of volunteers, including BYU students and faculty, have been combing Provo Canyon and other rugged areas where Cleverley liked to ride. The new school year began Tuesday.

"You're really in the thick of it up there," Jennene Allen of Lindon told the Daily Herald of Provo while searching with her husband.

Officers inspected a car wash Wednesday night but it did not produce clues about her whereabouts.

Before the new school year, the Boise, Idaho, native spent the summer living with the family of her boyfriend, David Sperry, father Dick Sperry said.

He said his son was interviewed by police and also took a polygraph test.

"They put him through the mill. They really worked him over," Dick Sperry told The Associated Press.

Cleverley's debit card was used Aug. 31, a day after she was last seen, to buy doughnuts and energy drinks at a local store. The store had no surveillance cameras, and police said they didn't know if she or someone else made the purchase.

Cleverley is a blue-eyed blonde, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 110 pounds.