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ByAmandaLeeMyers The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Information contained in an encrypted iPhone could help finally answer whether there was a third assailant in the San Bernardino terror attack that killed 14 people, accord- ing to court papers filed by the county's district attor- ney. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Friday that the question of a third attacker has nagged investigators despite no sup- porting evidence. "We've never been able to completely eliminate it," he said. "We know we have some witnesses that said they thought they saw three ... some saw two, some saw one. The majority said two, and the evidence we have up to this point only sup- ports two." Still, he said investigators would like to definitively an- swer the question, and un- lockingthephonecouldhelp do that. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire Dec. 2 at an an- nual training of his San Ber- nardino County co-workers. They died hours later in a shootout with police. The 14 people killed marked the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. In a brief filed in federal court Thursday, San Ber- nardino County District At- torney Michael Ramos cited two 911 calls reporting three perpetrators during the at- tack. "The information con- tained solely on the seized iPhone could provide ev- idence to identify as of yet unknownco-conspirators..." according to Ramos' brief. The brief also suggested that the county-owned iPhone used by Farook may have introduced a "lying- dormant cyber pathogen" endangering the county's computer network. Burguan said he's never heard that theory and knew of no problems. Such a breech is techni- cally possible but unlikely, said David Meltzer, a com- puter security expert and chiefresearchofficeratTrip- Wire, a commercial IT secu- rity firm. If an employee wanted to introduce malicious soft- ware into the county's net- work, Meltzer said they would be more likely to use a desktop or laptop PC be- cause it's easier to down- load and manipulate mali- cious code on a PC's operat- ing system. The district attorney is among many weighing in on the fight between Apple and the government ahead of a March 22 hearing in which Apple is asking a judge to re- verse an order requiring the company to create a soft- wareprogramthatoverrides iPhone security features. Apple says unlocking Fa- rook's phone would make all other iPhones more vulnera- ble to future attacks. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook cited in another court brief, Mark Sandefur — the father of one of the men killed in the terror at- tack — also cited reports of three attackers, saying the phone must be unlocked. "Several of the survivors tell me bone-chilling sto- ries of where they were, and what they saw," Sandefur wrote. "Some of them de- scribe in precise detail, lay- ing on the floor, hiding un- der furniture and the bod- ies of their co-workers, that they saw three assailants, not two, walking around in heavy boots as they carried out their murders. "What if there is evidence pointing to a third shooter?" Sandefur wrote. "What if it leads to an unknown terror- ist cell? What if others are attacked, and you and I did nothing to prevent it?" Among those backing Apple are civil liberties ad- vocates and some of the company's biggest compet- itors, including Google, Mi- crosoft and Facebook. APPLE ENCRYPTION CASE Prosecutor: iPhone could identify the unknown San Bernardino attacker By Christopher Weber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stab- bings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, a po- lice spokesman said Friday. A citizen supposedly found the knife, possibly during demolition of Simp- son's former home years ago, and turned it over to a now-retired police motor- cycle officer who was work- ing as a security guard at a filming location, police Capt. Andy Neiman said. The knife was being ana- lyzed by an LAPD crime lab for DNA or other material. It came to light in the past month, but Neiman did not say how that oc- curred, stressing the au- thenticity of the story was not confirmed. Investigators were look- ing into whether "this whole story is possibly bogus from the get-go," he said. The weapon used in the killings has been a mystery for decades. Other knives have surfaced during the case but were not linked to the crimes. In 1994, a salesman testi- fied at a preliminary hear- ing that he sold Simpson a knife before the killings. That same month a woman turned in a red- stained kitchen knife she said she found near Simp- son's home, and a handle and a piece of blade of a knife were found in a tank that collects waste from airplanes at O'Hare Inter- national Airport in Chi- cago, where Simpson flew the night of the killings. In 1998, a residential construction crew found a folding-blade knife in Simpson's former neighbor- hood but police said there was no evidence to show it was related to any crime. Neiman said investiga- tors didn't know the iden- tity of the person who handed over the recently discovered knife and asked him or her to come for- ward. The killings occurred June 12, 1994, and led to the "Trial of the Century" in which the former foot- ball star was acquitted by a jury that deliberated only four hours. In 1997, a civil court jury found Simpson liable for the slayings and awarded millions of dollars in dam- ages to the victims' fami- lies. Neiman did not believe that Simpson could be charged again with murder if the latest knife is linked to the killings. "I'm not an attorney, but it's my understanding from being a police officer for nearly 30 years that double jeopardy would be in place here," he said. Loyola Law School pro- fessor Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecu- tor who is a longtime ob- server of the Simpson case, agreed. "If they were going to find this knife and make it useful in the murder trial they should have found it 20 years ago, and they didn't," she said. "It will just raise more questions about the incompetence of the investigation and prob- ably lead to more books and more movies." The department was looking into whether crim- inal charges could be filed against the ex-officer who held onto the knife. An of- ficer who comes into con- tact with evidence is re- quired to turn it over to in- vestigators, Neiman said. Internal administrative charges were unlikely since the officer is now retired. Simpson is imprisoned in Nevada for a 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping conviction. The account of the knife's discovery was first reported by TMZ. LOS ANGELES Knife purportedly found at OJ Simpson home investigated MARKJ.TERRILL—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Crews demolish the former home of O.J. Simpson in 1998 in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. MYUNG J. CHUN — DAILY NEWS O.J. Simpson, center, reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, in court in Los Angeles in 1995. Alloffersforalimitedtime.Notallbuyerswillqualifyforindividualprograms.SeeRedBluffChrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Ramforcompletedetailsandvehiclequalificationsforallcurrentlyrunningprograms.0%and1.9%APRfinancing are not applicable on these new selected models. All rebates in lieu of special APRs offered by Chrysler. All prices plus government fees and taxes, any finance charge, any dealer document, preparation charge, and any emission charge. Subject to prior sales & credit approval. 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