Wondra Charged in Boy's Disappearance

A 5-year-old boy has been missing since 2021, and his remains have not been found. The counts filed Tuesday are charges. Her ex-husband's account is his account. The bond holds her for Thursday's hearing.

Sarah Wondra, 39, was booked into the Payette County Jail on Tuesday on a warrant charging first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, and concealment of evidence. The case is the disappearance of a 5-year-old Fruitland boy. Bond is $1 million. She is set to appear in Payette County Magistrate Court on Thursday.

The boy disappeared from his home in Fruitland on July 27, 2021. He was 5. Searches since then have not found his remains.

Her ex-husband, Stacey Wondra, was charged in 2025 with first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, and an evidence count, plus a persistent-violator enhancement. Prosecutors have not publicly laid out the evidence behind the new warrant for her. In his own case, he has told investigators that she was involved. He has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set for March 29, 2027, in Canyon County.

In 2022 she was charged with failing to report a death in the same investigation. That charge was dismissed in April 2023. Before this booking she was in Idaho Department of Correction custody on an unrelated 2022 case, after pleading guilty to aggravated assault and to destroying or concealing evidence. The department granted her parole in 2025.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.