AKIPRESS.COM - Human remains have been discovered in the long-unsolved disappearance of Natalee Holloway, New York Daily reported.

Holloway, 18, was with friends on a post-high-school trip to Aruba in 2005 when she vanished — leaving her heartbroken loved ones wondering for years what happened to her.

Speculation landed almost immediately on Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national last seen with the Alabama teen at a tourist bar on the Caribbean isle, and has swirled around him ever since. Now information from a friend of one of his friends may finally break in the case.

Holloway’s father, Dave, and private investigator T.J. Ward said Wednesday on NBC that the information led to the discovery of remains that have been confirmed as human.

They’re now being DNA-tested to determine whether they are Holloway’s.

Van der Sloot is serving a sentence of nearly 30 years in a Peruvian prison for the murder of a young woman there.

The now 30-year-old admitted to police in 2010 that he strangled Stephany Flores, 21, in his Lima hotel room after she learned of his connection to Holloway’s disappearance.