In January 2002, Tricia Hoffman noticed the statue of baby Jesus missing when her family took down their large Nativity scene display.
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Rather than spend more than $1,000 on a new set, Hoffman used dolls or her son, Jack, now 10, as stand-ins for the last six years while Jesus was away from his manger at the West Des Moines Police Department's evidence locker.
"Jack usually didn't last too long," Hoffman said. "It was hard to convince him to lie out there in the freezing cold."
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