An Alabama judge signed an order Thursday declaring Natalee Holloway legally dead, attorneys for her family said.
Beth Holloway, the mother of long-missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, opposes a court petition to declare the her dead, an attorney said Thursday.
Natalee Holloway's mother Beth goes to court to oppose an effort by Natalee's father to have her declared dead.
The father of long-missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway has asked a court to declare her dead, a move the girl's mother says came as a surprise.
The mother of missing Natalee Holloway tells PEOPLE authorities did "a good job"
Aruba police have until Monday to come up with cause to continue holding Gary Giordano
The piece of jawbone found on a beach in Aruba this month is human, but is not that of long-missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, Aruban prosecutors said Tuesday.
Authorities say a piece of jawbone found in Aruba does not belong to missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.
"It's a Jane Doe," Taco Stein, the Solicitor General told PEOPLE of the DNA test results
In Session's Jean Casarez from the TruTV network reports that Joran van der Sloot's attorney is challenging the arrest.
A U.S. federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Joran van der Sloot on charges of wire fraud and extortion in connection with a plot to sell information about the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway's remains in exchange for $250,000, officials said.
Stephany Flores' brother speaks with Beth Holloway on the phone for the first time. In Session's Jean Casarez reports.
The FBI knew about it but didn't arrest Joran van der Sloot, who police say went on to commit murder
Joran van der Sloot, who authorities say has confessed to the murder of a Peruvian woman, faces criminal charges in Alabama because he tried to extort $250,000 from Natalee Holloway's mother, according to an Interpol document.
Beth Holloway breaks her silence after a suspect in her daughter's disappearance is arrested in Chile
The homicide cop, the prosecutor, the stalking expert and the psychic fielded questions about two unsolved mysteries in a large, sunny room with a skeleton laid out on a table and timelines posted on the walls.
Authorities officially closed the Natalee Holloway case on Tuesday, saying there was not enough evidence to charge anyone in her 2005 disappearance.
Joran van der Sloot, one of three young men last seen with Natalee Holloway in Aruba, was set free Friday by an Aruban judge who ruled there was not enough evidence to hold him for an additional 60 days of pretrial detention.
The chief prosecutor in the Natalee Holloway investigation has agreed to meet Saturday with the parents of the missing Alabama teen, who is presumed dead.
The father of the missing Alabama teen says the family has known for some time that she's no longer alive.
A judge Monday granted the prosecution's request to hold Joran van der Sloot for a total of 16 days "on the suspicion of manslaughter" in the case of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway.
Authorities have re-arrested three men in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba in 2005, based on new evidence in the case, prosecutors announced Wednesday.