Fellow parents show up to search

PROVO CANYON — Camille Cleverley may not be Kevin Bardsley's daughter, but as a father who is intimately familiar with the frantic panic of having a missing child, he desperately wants to see her safely home.

Nor is she the daughter of Thelma Soares, Ed Smart or Toby Hawkins, all of whom were intensely involved in searches — some with happy endings, some not — for their own missing children, and who've joined hundreds of volunteers in the hunt for the missing Brigham Young University student.

The 22-year-old woman's story brings back painful memories for Bardsley, whose 12-year-old son Garrett was never recovered after he lost his way in the woods during a 2004 camping trip. That's why Bardsley and the other Utah parents whose children have gone missing are pooling their resources to help boost search efforts for Cleverley.

"You feel for them," Bardsley said Saturday. "Your heart bleeds for them. You hope you can take the pain away and you do everything you can to help them keep hoping. Sometimes hope's all you can control."

It's been 10 days since Cleverley was last seen on a purple and silver Schwinn mountain bike riding north on 900 East near the LDS Missionary Training Center. She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and has blond hair and blue eyes.

Law enforcement's best clue to Cleverley's whereabouts is a mountain bike that was turned over to police Thursday, said Provo Police Lt. John Guyerman. The Schwinn had been taken from a bike rack near Bridal Veil Falls.

Police identified the bike as Cleverley's Saturday by comparing her bank records with receipts from ShopKo, where she purchased the bike in June. After searching Cleverley's Provo apartment, police found a key that unlocked the bike lock found at Bridal Veil Falls.

The FBI is in the process of evaluating the results of a polygraph given to David Sperry, Cleverley's boyfriend. Sperry voluntarily submitted to the test Friday and "tentatively passed," according to a statement issued Saturday by Provo police.

"He's been real cooperative," Guyerman said.

Saturday, for the second day in a row, police combed the treacherous mountainsides surrounding Bridal Veil Falls. In Provo, more than 600 volunteers walked door to door with photos of Cleverley, searching trash cans and bushes for signs of the missing woman. As part of the search effort several groups of volunteers looked for Cleverley along canyon trails.