The father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, featured in a new TV series, was questioned by a public prosecutor after the father claimed he found human remains.
Dave Holloway, the dad, said in a series of TV interviews this week that he found remains—bones—in Aruba, where his daughter went missing in 2005, before he submitted them for DNA testing.
“When we determined these remains were human, I was shocked,” Holloway said Wednesday, Aug. 16, on the “Today” show. Holloway and private investigator TJ Ward are subjects of a new TV series.
Aruba Public Prosecutor Dorean Kardol told left-leaning HuffPost on Friday that “no human remains were found” in the area that the girl’s father singled out.
“During an investigation by police in an area indicated by Mr. Holloway, we found remains, but they were found to be from animals,” Kardol said.
The 18-year-old girl disappeared in May 2005 during a trip to celebrate her graduation from high school. She has never been seen again and her body was never found.
Classmates said that she was spotted with Dutch national Joran van der Sloot before her disappearance. He is now serving time in a Peruvian prison for the 2010 murder of Peruvian business student Stephany Flores Ramírez.
