“We have a person who states he was directly involved with [suspect] Joran van der Sloot in disposing of Natalee’s remains,” Holloway told Today Wednesday. "I thought, you know, there may be something to this." We’ve chased a lot of leads and this one is by far the most credible lead I’ve seen in the last 12 years.” 
 
 Holloway and private investigator T.J. Ward said they have been back and forth to Aruba over the last 18 months and, thanks to an informant, found bones that testing recently determined were human. Holloway said that DNA testing is being done on the bones and that he should know within the next month if they are his daughter’s. Natalee Holloway AP Photo/WBRC-TV FOX 6 
 
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 “When we determined these remains were human, I was shocked,” Holloway said, adding he had been disappointed before in his search for the truth. “I know there’s a possibility this could be someone else, and I’m just trying to wait and see.” 
 
 Natalee Holloway, 18, vanished during a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. No one has ever been charged with the Alabama teen’s disappearance and her body was never found by police. RELATED VIDEO: Natalee Holloway’s Father Speaks Out Regarding the Human Remains Found After Their 18-Month Investigation 
 
 Joran van der Sloot, the man who was last seen with Natalee, is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for killing business student Stephany Flores, who died in 2010 on the fifth anniversary of Holloway’s disappearance. A year after Natalee's mother said on TODAY that "justice has not been served" in Natalee's death, her father is hoping for some closure if the remains are determined to be his daughter. “It would be, finally, the end,” he said. Ward and Holloway are featured in a new Oxygen series premiering on Saturday night called "The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway," which follows their search to find out what happened.
– Answers might finally be at hand for the family of Natalee Holloway, 12 years after the 18-year-old American student disappeared while on a graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Father Dave Holloway says that in one of many trips to the island with private investigator TJ Ward over the last 18 months, they received a tip that led to unidentified human remains behind a house, People reports. "We’ve chased a lot of leads and this one is by far the most credible lead I've seen in the last 12 years," Holloway told the Today show on Wednesday. Holloway says the tip came from someone who claims to have helped Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, long suspected of playing a role in the disappearance, dispose of his daughter's remains. Holloway says DNA testing is being carried out on the bones and they should know within a month whether they belong to Natalee. Ward and Holloway's search is documented in the Oxygen series The Search for Natalee Holloway, which premieres on Saturday. Van der Sloot is serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores.