There's still no word from Aruban police authorities on what, if anything, a search for underwater remains has turned up. Initial reports said the island police would be searching this weekend.
The latest development in the Natalee Holloway disappearance was triggered by an underwater photograph taken by a vacationing Pennsylvania couple. Although the image is not distinct, some feel the photo shows skeletal remains.
Aruban authorities said they would dispatch a dive team to what they think is the site...which the Pennsylvania couple could not pinpoint.
Aruban Police Deputy Chief Adolpho Richardson says they are looking into it but that chances are slim it will lead to results.
Beth Holloway, mother of the missing Mountain Brook girl, has declined comment on the latest of possible leads in the almost five year old case. Then 18 year Natalee disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. Her body has never been found.
A continuing thread in the mystery is Dutch national Joran van Der Sloot. Van Der Sloot and two Aruban teenage brothers were the subject of suspicion but have never been charged.
Joran van Der Sloot has made rambling and conflicting confessions on at least two occasions. In one of those he said Holloway died in his presence and that he disposed of her body at sea.
Aruban authorities have dismissed van Der Sloot's confessions as "fantasy." Although questioned several times, he has never been charged in Holloway's disappearance.