Reset passcode from itunes

Hello all,
I have a rather large problem. My sister was found deceased last week with suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. I need to get into her iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1.3 to view her text and phone call messages from the last week to piece together the puzzle of what happened to her.
I have access to the laptop that is the primary docking device with iTunes on it and I also have her Apple id password. I caled my local Apple store and they cant do anything for me.
Is there any way to get past the 4 digit lock screen code to get the data off the iPhone without compromising it? Any way to do this through iTunes?

You could see if you could get a forensics computer specialist to get into the phone, but that would be very expensive. For the normal user, there is no way to bypass the passcode except a restore from a backup on the computer she normally synced with. Since it appears you have that, you could restore as a regular user would if they lost their passcode. Check the User Guide regarding forgetting the Passcode, and it should direct you to a support document, or you can search the forums here regarding forgetting your passcode, there have to be hundreds of postings about that. Good luck to you. I'm sorry about your loss, but as a retired law enforcement officer, I wanted to make sure you didn't compromise the investigation by doing anything to the phone/computer first. I didn't mean to lessen the impact of your loss.

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