NATALEE HOLLOWAY COULD BE DECLARED DEAD: JUDGE

DEAD?

NATALEE HOLLOWAY could be declared dead within days after a judge ruled that her father had met the legal presumption that she had passed away.
As we reported here six years after the gorgeous teen went missing during a graduation trip to Aruba, Dave Holloway has taken the sad step of trying to have her ruled dead and bring legal closure to the case.
Recounting the extensive searches on land and air of the holiday isle he said there was no sign of his daughter being found.
His attorney, Karen Hennecy, asked, ""Dave, do you believe Natalee is alive today?"
"No," he answered quietly.
He added that he partly based his decision on the fact that the man, long suspected of killing her, Joran Van Der Sloot, has claimed in the past that he watched her die.    
Tape emerged this week of him admitting to killing 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores, in a Lima hotel room, which we reported here. 
Although her mom Beth's attorney, Charlie DeBardeleben, said, she was "horrified" by her ex-husband's effort Probate Judge Alan King ruled that he has met the legal presumption of her death.
It's up to someone to prove she did not die six years ago on the high school trip.

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NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S DAD WANTS HER DECLARED DEAD

DEAD?

MISSING Natalee Holloway's father is asking a court to declare his daughter dead, six years after she went missing during a graduation vacation to Aruba.
Dave Holloway said in a sworn statement that it was his "painful" belief that his daughter is dead adding that in the years he's spent searching for his daughter no evidence suggested that she was either alive or had run away from home.
His daughter was  last seen in a car with Joran Van Der Sloot on the last day of her graduation trip to the beautiful holiday isle.
Her body has never been found despite extensive searches on both the island and it's surrounding waters.
The Dutchman who is currently being held in Peru for the murder of Stephany Flores, appeared to admit to the murder in a documentary.
He also took cash from the Holloway family in return for information about Natalee's disappearance, only to reveal nothing further about the case.
Dave Holloway's request said the teenager didn't have a will and owned about $500 worth of personal property; it did not mention any life insurance policy.
An initial hearing on the request is set for Sept. 23 and state law mandates a second hearing before a decision is issued.
His lawyer, Karen Hennecy, said Holloway "is seeking closure for this family."
Meanwhile, Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway, said she was surprised her ex-husband filed the request and it is unclear whether she was supporting his claim.
She told ABC News: "I want to get to the bottom of what's going on from Dave."

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NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S MOM: 'MAKE YOUR KIDS SAFE'

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NATALEE

THE DISTRAUGHT mom of missing Natalee Holloway urged parents to make sure their kids are safe, to avoid the heartache she had been through.
Beth Holloway who founded the International Safe Travels Organization after her daughter's presumed death, recalled the last phone call before Natalee packed for 2005 spring break in Aruba.
"I just told her I loved her," she said.
However she refused to comment on her daughter's supposed killer Joran Van Der Sloot, who's trial for the murder of young Peruvian Stephany Flores, 21, may again be delayed.

She told WMBF: "It was in June 2005 that I made the commitment early on to the authorities and officials handling Natalee's case that I would do everything I could in order to share the hard lessons we had learned to help others hopefully avoid experiencing the nightmare that we did.
"I just try to focus on the work that need to be done and the lives that need to be reached."
Holloway, who as well as writing the book "Loving Natalee" is now presenting a Cable TV show about other unsolved cases added that protecting children from those who would prey on their innocence was her prime aim.
She said: "Children learn things about the world around them and are empowered. That's what makes hope real. It is when you do something and that hope becomes real and it becomes tangible."

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