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| Natalee Holloway |
Aruba authorities plan to make an announcement Tuesday afternoon regarding tests performed on a bone found on an Aruba beach that some speculate could be from missing American teenager Natalee Holloway.
Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway disappeared on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. She was last seen leaving a club with Joran van der Sloot. Her remains have never been found, despite extensive police searches.
Although the young Dutchman was questioned several times by Aruban authorities, he was never charged. He is still considered the prime suspect in Natalee's disappearance.
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The Dutch Forensic Institute has been testing the bone and the Holloway family has provided Natalee's dental records for comparison. The prosecutor said a forensic expert in Aruba made the initial determination. The Forensic Institute said earlier this week that the announcement of the findings would be left to Aruban authorities
The bone, which the Dutch-language paper de Telegraff reported was the lower half of the jaw with one molar still intact, was found by tourists last week on a beach in Aruba.
Van der Sloot is currently in prison in Peru charged with the murder of Stephany Flores. The body of the 21-year-old student was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room. Van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores after she found material relating to Natalee on his laptop. In one of many macabre aspects of the case, Flores' body was found five years to the day of Natalee's disappearance.
He has also been indicted by a federal grand jury here in Birmingham charged with wire fraud and extortion.
Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, had said that he provided the records but added that he had received no new official information on the investigation on the Dutch island in the Caribbean.
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