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A screen capture from the Winneshiek County [Iowa] Sheriff's Office page, showing a controversial religious Easter message. The Associated Press reported on April 26 that county Sheriff Dan Marx told the Mason City Globe Gazette he doesn't intend to remove it. (Winneshiek County Sheriff's Office/Facebook)

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This photo provided by the Clark County, Indiana., Sheriff's Office shows Joseph Oberhansley. Oberhansley is charged with murder, rape and abuse of a corpse in the September 2014 slaying of 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton. The southern Indiana man accused of killing his former girlfriend and eating parts of her body will undergo psychiatric evaluations, despite his insistence that he's competent for trial. (Clark County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated, file photo provided by the Dodge County, Minn., Sheriff's Office shows Lois Riess, of Blooming Prairie, Minn., who is being sought in connection with the killing of a Florida woman. Authorities have released new video of Riess, a Minnesota woman suspected of killing her husband and then a woman in southwest Florida. (Dodge County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Park County, Wyo., Sheriff's Office shows Jesus Deniz Mendoza. Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to send Mendoza to prison for life after he pleaded guilty to killing a couple and wounding their daughter when the family stopped to help him on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. (Park County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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This undated photo released by the Alameda County, Calif., Sheriff's Office shows Wyndham Lathem, an associate professor of microbiology at Northwestern University. Lathem and Andrew Warren, an employee of the University of Oxford in Britain, were jailed in the San Francisco area in connection with the death of a young hairdresser in Chicago, police said. Lathem faces a Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, court appearance in the city of Pleasanton, Calif. (Alameda County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This August 2017 photo released by the Spotsylvania (Va.) Sheriff's Office shows Kariem Ali Muhammad Moore. A woman and her two children escaped from captivity inside a home in Virginia when deputies were sent to check on their welfare, authorities said. Moore, 43, was arrested at the scene on Saturday, July 29, 2017 and held without bond at the Rappahannock Regional Jail on multiple felony counts including abduction and assault. (Spotsylvania (Va.) Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This photo provided by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff's Office, shows Hayden Mayberry, who was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 with his girlfriend, Jensen Lefan, on charges including hindering apprehension of Lefan’s brother, fugitive Brady Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick was among 12 inmates who escaped from the jail in Walker County, Ala., on Sunday, after using peanut butter to alter a number over a cell door. Authorities said an inexperienced guard punched in the peanut-buttered number, unwittingly releasing a door to the outside. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This photo provided by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows Jensen Lefan after she was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, with her boyfriend Hayden Mayberry, on charges including hindering apprehension of Lefan’s brother, fugitive Brady Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick was among 12 inmates who escaped from the jail in Walker County, Ala., on Sunday, after using peanut butter to alter a number over a cell door. Authorities said an inexperienced guard punched in the peanut-buttered number, unwittingly releasing a door to the outside. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This photo provided by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows Brady Kilpatrick, who was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, the last of 12 inmates who used peanut butter to escape from an Alabama jail. The inmates escaped Sunday by writing a number in peanut butter over a cell door. An inexperienced guard in a control room thought he was opening the cell, but the number released a door to the outside. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This photo provided by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff's Office, shows Brady Kilpatrick under arrest Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, the last of 12 inmates who used peanut butter to escape from an Alabama jail. The inmates escaped Sunday by writing a number in peanut butter over a cell door. An inexperienced guard in a control room thought he was opening the cell, but the number released a door to the outside. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo made available by the Walker County, Ala., Sheriff's Office, shows Brady Andrew Kilpatrick. A manhunt is underway for Kilpatrick, who escaped with 11 other inmates from the Walter County jail on Sunday, July 30, 2017. All but Kilpatrick have been recaptured. (Walter County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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FILE - This Monday, June 5, 2017, file photo provided by the Lake County, Calif., Sheriff's Office shows Derick Almena. Two men each charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the December Oakland warehouse fire that killed three dozen people attending a dance party are expected to enter pleas Friday, July 7, 2017. Derick Ion Almena, 47, and Max Harris, 27, are each charged with illegally converting the warehouse to a residence and entertainment venue and then creating a fire hazard through unpermitted modifications and clutter. (Lake County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated file photo released by the Mohave County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office shows Nicholios Nealy. An Arizona couple has been charged as authorities seek a missing 4-month-old girl born to the woman in Nevada. Mohave County attorney's office investigator Steve Auld said Thursday, June 22, 2017 authorities tracked down the people who dropped off the baby at the Portals to Glory Pentecostal church in North Las Vegas last week. The reported parents, Nicholios Nealy and Octavia Jackson, remained jailed in Kingman, Arizona, and face felony charges including custodial interference and perjury.(Mohave County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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This undated file photo released by the Mohave County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office shows Octivia Jackson. An Arizona couple has been charged as authorities seek a missing 4-month-old girl born to the woman in Nevada. Mohave County attorney's office investigator Steve Auld said Thursday, June 22, 2017, authorities tracked down the people who dropped off the baby at the Portals to Glory Pentecostal church in North Las Vegas last week. The reported parents, Nicholios Nealy and Octavia Jackson, remained jailed in Kingman, Arizona, and face felony charges including custodial interference and perjury. (Mohave County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arapahoe County, Colo., Sheriff's Office shows Renee Rayton. States with legal marijuana have an ethics problem. Not just because they're violating federal drug law. They also have to look out for pot regulators who might have improper dealings with an industry still emerging from the black market. In a case that has caught the U.S. Justice Department's attention, former Colorado marijuana enforcement officer Rayton is accused of helping pot growers raise plants for illegal out-of-state sales. (Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office shows Edward "Jake" Wagner. Authorities on Monday, June 19, 2017, asked for information about four former Ohio residents, including Edward "Jake" Wagner, who may have moved to Alaska as part of their investigation into the unsolved slayings of eight family members last year. (Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office shows George Wagner IV. Authorities on Monday, June 19, 2017, asked for information about four former Ohio residents, including George Wagner IV, who may have moved to Alaska as part of their investigation into the unsolved slayings of eight family members last year. (Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office shows Angela Wagner. Authorities on Monday, June 19, 2017, asked for information about four former Ohio residents, including Angela Wagner, who may have moved to Alaska as part of their investigation into the unsolved slayings of eight family members last year. (Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office shows George "Billy" Wagner III, who investigators say is a former Peebles, Ohio, resident believed to be living in Alaska. Authorities on Monday, June 19, 2017, asked for information about four former Ohio residents, including Wagner, who may have moved to Alaska as part of their investigation into the unsolved slayings of eight family members last year. (Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Pike County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This June 2017 photo released by the Lincoln County (Ga.) Sheriff's Office, shows Reality Winner. Winner, is being held for federal authorities at the Lincoln County, Ga., jail. Winner charged with leaking U.S. government secrets to a reporter poses no flight risk if she's released from pre-trial confinement, her parents said Wednesday, June 7, 2017, though they fear prosecutors will seek to use the case to send a tough message from the Trump administration. (Lincoln County (Ga.) Sheriff's Office via AP)