Natalee Holloway Declared Legally Dead

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Source: TIME

(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — An Alabama judge signed an order Thursday declaring Natalee Holloway dead, more than six years after the American teenager vanished on the Caribbean island of Aruba during a high school graduation trip.

Judge Alan King signed the order at the close of a hearing in a Birmingham courtroom that was attended by the missing woman's divorced parents, Dave and Beth Holloway.
(See "From Aruba to Lima: The Case of Joran van der Sloot.")

Dave Holloway told the judge in September he believed his daughter had died and he wanted to stop payments on her medical insurance and use her $2,000 college fund to help her younger brother. Thursday's hearing was scheduled long before a suspect questioned in Holloway's disappearance, Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Peru to the 2010 murder of a woman in Lima.

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The teen's mother originally objected, but her lawyer, Charlie DeBardeleben, said she subsequently changed her mind once she understood her husband's intentions.



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[KoKo]

2. It's so confusing...I don't know what to think.

What a moral dilemna. :-(

[Rhiannon12866]

3. My heart goes out to her mother

You really can't blame her for not ever wanting to give up. ;(