“At the end of the day, if you have a shred of information that’s recoverable, it can be helpful to painting a better picture of what may or may not have occurred,” he said.
The contents could include text messages that were never sent, call logs, or pictures. GPS-related information could be accessed as well, he said.
The two boys had gone out on a fishing trip the morning of July 24 from the Jupiter Inlet, just north of West Palm Beach, as severe weather was approaching. They didn’t come home, and after 4 p.m. the Coast Guard was dispatched. Officials found the abandoned boat two days later, but when a marine salvage boat went out to tow it back, it had drifted away.
“If the storm came and capsized the boat, the battery switch and the key would not be in those positions,” Pamela Cohen’s attorney, Guy Rubin, said. “We want forensic experts in accident reconstruction to look at the boat and tell us what happened. I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but I’m also trying to take it from a scientific approach.”
