The FBI has agreed to help Arkansas prosecutors unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of killing a couple.
It comes days after the agency revealed it had hacked an iPhone linked to the gunman in December's massacre in San Bernardino, California.
The Arkansas case involves teenagers Hunter Drexler and Justin Staton, who are accused of killing Robert and Patricia Cogdell.
Both have pleaded not guilty to capital murder, aggravated robbery and other charges in last July's deaths of the 66-year-old couple at their home in Conway.
Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland said the FBI had agreed to help Conway Police Department on Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators say they believe 15-year-old Staton used the iPod to communicate about his alleged plans to kill the couple, who had raised him as a grandson.
Eighteen-year-old Drexler's lawyers say they are not concerned about any material on his iPhone.
The FBI hasn't revealed how it gained access to the iPhone 5c that belonged to San Bernardino killer Syed Farook.
Apple - which refused to help the agency, citing privacy concerns - is trying to find out how the encrypted device was accessed.
A prosecutor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has meanwhile asked the FBI to help unlock a phone owned by a murder victim.
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