5 year old reported missing from Iowa in November found at grandparents’ Wisconsin home
January 20th, 2026 by Ric Hanson
(Radio Iowa) – A missing Kossuth County child is back with his mother after he was found Monday at his grandparents’ home in Wisconsin. Five-year-old Douglas Jonathan Zane Roth was reported missing in November of last year, as law enforcement officials believed he had been taken to Wisconsin by his father as part of a custody dispute.
Thirty-three-year-old Douglas Jonathan Roth, formerly of Titonka, and his parents, 59-year-old Emil Roth and 59-year-old Audrey Roth, were all arrested on Monday by officials in Rusk County, Wisconsin after a search warrant was executed at the Roth’s residence.
Douglas Roth will be extradited back to Iowa to face charges of Third Degree Kidnapping and Violation of a Custodial Order. His parents have been charged in Wisconsin with Interfering with a Parental Custody Issue and Being Party to a Crime for allegedly helping to conceal the location of their son and the child.
The five-year-old boy was returned to his mother, who had received physical custody of the child following a court order in June of 2025.



