Fate of bikes in Moab deaths
Marilyn Monroe
November 19, 1995
"Scottish students tell fate of bikes of 2 Iowa mountain-bikers who died"
MOAB, Utah (AP) - Two Scottish students who found bicycles belonging to
two Iowa mountain-bikers later found dead say they sold one of the bikes
and still have the other.
Grand County Sheriff James Nyland said he learned what happened to the
bikes in a second letter from the students, Gary Tompsett and Morgan
Donnelly, written from Glasgow, Scotland.
The bodies of Mark Irvin, 20, of Blairsburg, Iowa, and Chris Holt, 21,
of Hampton, Iowa, were found Aug. 22 on a small ledge of a cliff in
southeastern Utah. Authorities said they had died of exposure.
Irvin and Holt had been the objects of an extensive search since their
disappearances Aug. 5. Their bicycles were never found.
In an earlier letter, Tompsett and Donnelly stated they had discovered
the bikes Aug. 15 and went back to recover them two days later, the
sheriff said.
Unable to gat a phone number for the two Glasgow University students,
the sheriff has had to rely on the mail to get answers to questions
about the bikes.
"We have the Katai bike and some tools with us here in Glasgow," wrote
Tompsett. "The Paragon bike was sold in Berkeley, Calif. The shop was
near the university. Sorry, but we cannot remember the name of it. The
helmets went with this bike."
The Scotsmen offered to send back the bike they took home and said that
they didn't know about the missing men when they took the bikes.
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