Natalee Holloway was last seen in May 2005.
Natalee Holloway's mother said she's anxiously awaiting the news on whether a jawbone found on an Aruban beach could have been her daughter's.
The bone found last week has been sent to Dutch forensics experts for analysis.
"There's no good answer, whether it is Natalee or whether it isn't," Beth Holloway said Friday morning in a statement released by her spokeswoman, Sunny Tillman. "But no answer at all is the most unbearable."
Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he is providing his missing daughter's dental records to investigators.
A tourist found the bone last Friday and brought it to the front desk of the Phoenix Hotel, according to Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office. It was then sent to the Netherlands for analysis, though there has been no announcement on whether the bone is human.
"If it turns out to be a human bone, the investigation will continue," Angela said. "We cannot say when the results will be in."
A forensic scientist in Aruba, however, has said that the bone is from a human female, Dave Holloway told the AP. Holloway said he received the information from a friend who spoke to the scientist. He did not identify either the friend or the scientist, and did not say whether the scientist is involved in the investigation or how he or she is otherwise in a position to know details of the case.
Natalee Holloway, of Mountain Brook, was 18 when she disappeared while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005.
She was last seen leaving a bar with Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in her disappearance, on the final night of her trip.
Aruba prosecutors have repeatedly said they lack evidence to charge Van der Sloot, who is currently in jail in Peru acused of killing a 21-year-old woman on May 30 -- five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance.
The search for Holloway has seen numerous possible leads that turned into dead-ends.
Earlier this year, police launched an underwater search expedition after a couple from Pennsylvania took a picture of what they thought might have been a skull and bones.
Divers found nothing but rocks and coral.
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