Right before my best friend killed himself, he threw his iPhone in the toilet. The detectives told the family they could try to recover any data, but it would likely be compromised, due to the fact that it was submerged 2 days (they found him 2 days after he killed himself). AFAIK, I’m the person he last spoke to before pulling the trigger. I’ve been in Hades ever since....9yrs.) I don’t think he even shattered the screen beforehand, but he may have. It was very clear from this and other actions that he wanted no digital data preserved. We will never know why. Yet, the detectives said they MIGHT be able to retrieve data. His parents chose to let it go, as they just wanted to bury their son and grieve together. I’m not sure what would be possible. I’d think submersion in a hot tub would likely destroy all data. If anything, the last ping of location on her phone may have been while it first went into water. (IF that’s even what happened, as we don’t know yet.) If I was Barry, and allegedly murdered my wife, I’d take that phone and beat it to pieces with a sledgehammer, something of that sort. I’d gather every last fragment and throw it out the car window in a random location.
ALL JMO