IPhone That Could Solve Louisiana Mom's Murder Languishes Unused
- Pregnant woman slain and police can't get into her iPhone
- Anguished family came to Washington to get help from Apple
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Almost a year after Brittney Mills was shot dead in the doorway of her Baton Rouge, Louisiana home, the iPhone that might reveal who pulled the trigger languishes on an evidence shelf.
Police think the pregnant mother’s smartphone could hold texts or diary entries revealing who killed her. But the data remains cloaked by encryption, guarded by an unknown pass code and unreachable by investigators.