Last week, the iPhone that belonged to Austin was deemed not salvageable by Apple. It was sent to the firm for examination amid a legal battle between the Cohen and Stephanos families.
The boys went missing July 24 after they left Jupiter Inlet, sparking a large search along the Atlantic seaboard.
Before they went missing, Perry used Austin’s phone to send out a Snapchat message that some of their friends apparently saw. It read, “We’re f'ed.”
Perry also communicated with his mother, Pamela, via text messages. He told her: “Mom, it’s Perry. My iPad is dead... I'll text you in a little. Love you.”
Austin had also posted, “Peace out Jupiter” to his Instagram page, and he said they were going to fish “far off shore” for dolphin.
“I don’t know his last moments and it’s haunting and it’s terrifying,' Perry’s mother told WPBF last month. ”I miss him dearly and would do anything to get him back.”
“It’s the largest search and rescue that the U.S. Coast Guard conducted in modern day time. So the fact that eight months later, two vital pieces of information and evidence has been recovered ... why the investigation wouldn’t be reopened to look into that and find the answers, it doesn’t make any sense,” she said.
Months ago, Perry’s stepfather, Nick Korniloff said that the family were “people of the water.”
“I know that we’ve trained them correctly---we’ve taught them the respect of mother nature and the power of the sea. ‘We’ve raised these kids right. Our optimism comes from the faith we have. They are strong kids. They are survivors,” he told CNN at the time.
