Apple sometimes makes headlines for the most unusual reasons, saving life after life with groundbreaking ECG monitoring and fall detection features on the company’s newest smartwatch, as well as helping regular people (even children) essentially become superdetectives by using the ubiquitous Find My iPhone app.

While the latest human interest story involving Apple’s device-locating service doesn’t have the same happy ending as past mainstream news pieces of a similar nature, it’s easy to imagine how a domestic dispute gone off the rails in Fairfield, Connecticut could have wound up even ...