Beth Holloway Twitty

Natalee Holloway's mom believes, "All three of those boys know what happened to her."

From AP:

The mother of a missing Alabama teenager said Sunday that she believes three young men who were with her daughter the day of her disappearance know what happened to her. Beth Holloway Twitty said Aruban authorities should pressure the young men to reveal what they know about the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway.

"All three of those boys know what happened to her," Holloway Twitty said during a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press in her room at the Holiday Inn, the same hotel where her daughter was staying before she disappeared on May 30. "They all know what they did with her that night."

Holloway Twitty, 44, declined to say what she thought the boys had done or whether she thought her daughter was still alive. She also said she thought that two former hotel security guards detained in connection with Holloway's disappearance were innocent and should be released.

...Holloway Twitty said she appreciated all that Aruban authorities have done but added, "I will not be satisfied until they give me back my daughter. I want her and I want her now."

...Holloway Twitty said she she will not leave Aruba until her daughter is found.

"I have no choice but to stay strong. I was somehow chosen for this (situation) and I've got to see it to the end."

It sounds to me like Natalee's mom is resigned to the fact that she will never see her daughter alive again.

Her comments about not leaving until Natalee is found and her belief that she was "chosen" and must see things through to the end are not words filled with hope. She is being strong and determined. She's also acknowledging what appears to be the sad reality of what happened to her child.

All the conflicting reports--the confession of one of the young men, reported by a polic chief, and then followed by its retraction by the attorney general--certainly give the impression that, as one of the three reportedly said, "something bad happened."