Aruba Prosecutor Mulling Closure Of Holloway Case

By: Associated Press | Alabama's13.com
Published: December 08, 2007

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Aruba's chief prosecutor says he might finally close the case of missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway after a lengthy probe that was labeled as botched in its early stages and has never led to anyone being formally charged.

Hans Mos told The Associated Press he will drop the case unless prosecutors agree before the New Year that they have strong enough evidence to go to court.

Mos says he has promised the three suspects that after Dec. 31st, he will not pursue the case, saying: "This investigation should end at a certain point."

Mos says he imposed the deadline himself earlier this year because he feels two years is a reasonable amount of time for bringing charges against someone.

His comments come after the recent release of three suspects who have been arrested several times since the probe began following the Mountain Brook teen's disappearance in May of 2005 while on a graduation celebration trip to Aruba.

Mos says if prosecutors believed they only had enough evidence to charge someone with a minor crime related to the 18-year-old's disappearance, he and the Holloway family feel pursuing such a charge "doesn't serve a purpose."

Mos says a person convicted of making a body disappear, for example, would serve only six months in prison. Mos says he does not anticipate ever finding Holloway's remains.

Holloway's relatives did not return calls for comment.

Holloway attended junior high in Clinton, Miss., and her father still lives in Meridian.

Aruba Prosecutor Mulling Closure Of Holloway Case

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