An Aruban police dive team will search the site where an underwater photograph was taken that might show human remains, a spokeswoman for the Aruban prosecutor said Saturday.The picture has renewed interest in the nearly 5-year-old Natalee Holloway case.
Officials first heard of the picture, taken in October by a vacationing American couple, on Thursday, Ann Angela, a spokeswoman for Aruban prosecutor Peter Blanken, said
"We have received the picture, and the diving team of the Aruban police will start doing preliminary work at the spot where we believe it was taken," Angela told CNN.
She declined to identify the location, saying authorities want to avoid attracting onlookers during the search.The picture has raised the notion that, if it shows human remains, they could be those of Holloway, an 18-year-old Alabama high school student whose 2005 disappearance while on a graduation trip to Aruba was widely publicized.
Holloway was last reported seen leaving a bar in the capital of Oranjestad on May 30.
CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the photo nor confirm whether it shows human remains.Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, declined to comment on the photo.
The photo was taken by a Pennsylvania woman using a disposable film camera during the first stop on her Royal Caribbean cruise.
Three months after snapping what she said she thought were pictures of colorful fish, Patti Muldowney Allods online Gold
and her husband said they realized that one picture contained what they believe appear to be human remains."When I looked at that photo, I said, 'By darn, that certainly does look like a skeleton,' " John Muldowney told HLN's "Nancy Grace" on Friday. "You can see the skull. You can see where the eye sockets were. You can see where the chin was.
"It's lying flat on its back. And its arms are cradled around. You can almost see fingers. And then on the one sleeve it looks like some kind of maybe clothing that's deteriorating."
The couple, who took the photo to police and the FBI, said it was taken near a shipwreck.
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said Friday that it is investigating."The photo has been made available to all elements of the FBI that are involved in this foreign police cooperation case," Mike Kortan, assistant director of the FBI, said in a statement. "Investigative leads are being pursued and the effort is ongoing."