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WithoutATrace – for all those who are lost, that may someday be found...

WithoutATrace is a community for discussing missing persons cases - both open and closed. We tend to focus on cold cases, but we do discuss more recent disappearances as well. You are welcome to post about missing people here, whether unresolved or resolved, whether historical or recent.

85k subscribers136 posts / mo in Sep 202680 authors / mosince 2013

r/WithoutATrace has 85k members (+6.5% over the last 12 months). It gets about 136 posts a month from 80 people. Top topics: Missing Persons, Missing Persons Help and Missing Persons.

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Size and growth

How r/WithoutATrace has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+6.5%in 12 months · +1.7% in 3 months · +0.4% in 1 month
Oct 202685k
Growing85k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+202%vs Sep 2025 · +55% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026136
BusierPeaked at 279 in Sep 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/WithoutATrace

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Missing Persons3.5%
  2. Missing Persons Help2.1%
  3. Missing Persons2.0%
  4. Missing Persons Search1.5%
  5. Missing Persons1.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. The Charley Project
  2. Substack
  3. CBS News
  4. FBI Human Resources Branch
  5. Banfield

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research