Bones Fragments Found In Aruba Do Not Belong To Natalee Holloway

MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL — Tests revealed that the remains found in Aruba did not belong to Natalee Holloway, a Mountain Brook teen who disappeared on a graduation trip 12 years ago.

Natalie Holloway went missing on May 30, 2005 while in Aruba with more than 130 of her classmates. Remains were found in September that officials believed might have belonged to Holloway

DNA test were conducted on bone fragments to determine if the remains matched the DNA of Holloway's mother, and those tests came back negative. Three of the bone samples were not determined to be human samples.

Holloway’s father, Dave Holloway, recently took part in an Oxygen TV series about his daughter's case, called “The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.” (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Birmingham Patch morning newsletter.)

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