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Classmates would dive into one last adventure together. a trip to aruba, a tradition mountain brook southeastern seniors spent the entire year looking forward to. >> everyone was going on that trip, all of our good friends and stuff like that. everybody was just so excited. we couldn't wait to get down there. >> natalee's dad, however, was nervous. there were only seven chaperones. and in aruba, the legal drinking age was 18. but natalee had always been responsible and her mother and stepfather thought she had earned it. >> this was her reward for working so hard and getting a scholarship to a...

Holloway went away -- >> missing alabama teenager who hasn't been seen since monday. >> she vanished. >> before all of this, before the mystery, the allegations, the tears, before she vanished, natalee holloway was simply a teenager, an 18-year-old growing up in a quiet suburb. she was happy and certainly her mother's daughter. >> there wasn't anything that natalee couldn't come to me and tell me or ask me. nothing. >> just sitting in the back, cruising over to my place. >> her mother divorced her father when natalee was a little girl. when beth remarried, she moved the family to mountain broo...

>> we went straight to the chaperones. >> with us tonight, natalee's mother, beth twitty, is with us, her stepdad, jud twitty -- >> natalee's parents shared their ordeal with hln's nancy grace. >> she never showed up to depart for the airport. i knew immediately natalee would never be late for anything, never. >> they left immediately for aruba to search for their daughter. >> the first thing that i wanted to do with eric williams, the dea, was establish natalee's character so they would see this is not someone who just decided not to show up. >> at the time, however, locals were not overly co...

Mountain brook southeastern seniors spent the entire year looking forward to. >> everyone was going on that trip, all of our good friends and stuff like that. everybody was just so excited. we couldn't wait to get down there. >> natalee's dad, however, was nervous. there were only seven chaperones. and in aruba, the legal drinking age was 18. but natalee had always been responsible and her mother and stepfather thought she had earned it. >> this was her reward for working so hard and getting a scholarship to alabama. >> a reward that promised a tropical paradise, an island full of fun, adventu...

Alabama teen who vanished back in 2005. more than five years after her disappearance no one stands charged with her alleged murder. phil keating joins us on the phone from aruba. what do we know. >> reporter: i spoke with john kelly the attorney for beth twitty, natalee holloway's mother overall the years. he received the statement within the past hour, so perhaps the comment from beth twitty is forthcoming. her dad, dave holloway add been quoted he really believed this was going to be id as his daughter's jawbone with one tooth in it. according to dutch investigators this is in fact the jawbo...