Apple rejected the victim's unlocked iPhone

IPhone 5 of a murder victim in Italy are locked with a password.Police said this phone is a factor to help investigate but Apple has refused to require a password to unlock the device.

Nicoletta bodies Figini victim, 55, was found in her apartment on the outskirts of the city of Milan last month 7/2013. Police said the cause of death was asphyxiation when she gagged. The body of Figini tied by wire, bedspreads and curtains.

Apartments are more mixed but according to the authorities, this is not a robbery murders by many valuable items were not taken away including three mobile phones Figini.

Two of the mobile phone is unlocked but does not contain useful information for the investigation. Meanwhile, the rest is the iPhone 5 is locked by a password and the investigators did not know the contents inside it.

Mauro Clerici, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation, said: "There is a problem in the legal system. In Italy, the search was in charge of the investigation by prosecutors, while in the US, the this is decided by the judge ".

Clerici analysis, technical experts with the task of accessing information on the iPhone only be conducted when a suspect has been identified. In this case, "the killer" was just an assumption.

Investigators can not get support for this hacker potentially complete loss of data on the iPhone and the case can go into a dead end. Even if successful, the information gathered from the iPhone may not be the legal evidence in court, the journalist Giuseppe Guastella said.

But for Apple, the company's security regulations only support the investigation of cases involving missing persons or suicide. The work of the enumerators Italy also hampered by the Constitution of the fourth amendment of the US.

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"This case shows the need for legal rules be internationally recognized," said Guastella. "If the device is manufactured by an Italian company, the country authorities have succeeded in unlocking".

Apple did not provide any solution to help the Italian authorities to unlock and access the contents inside the iPhone needed for this case.