Jawbone in Aruba not that of Ala. teen

The jawbone is human, though it is unclear whom it belongs to.

Dutch investigators compared the lone tooth on the bone with dental records supplied by Holloway’s family and “it can be ruled out that the bone fragment came from Natalee Holloway,’’ the prosecutors said.

The bone was found recently on a beach, and Aruba prosecutors had asked forensic scientists in the Netherlands to analyze it.

They assured that the Holloway case has “the constant attention from law enforcement on the island.’’

But John Kelly, an attorney for Holloway’s mother, Beth Twitty, hinted that the media apparently found out first about the test results. “Beth accepts the forensic conclusions, is emotionally exhausted from the inexplicably long wait, and deeply disappointed in the time and manner in which she learned of the results,’’ he said. “Apparently Aruban prosecutors were more sensitive to media concerns than the painful vigil of a mother.’’

Yesterday’s announcement again eliminated a hope of evidence about the fate of the Mountain Brook, Ala., student who disappeared while on a high school graduation trip in 2005, when she was 18.