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Someone you love is missing?
Help Bring Them Home
Resources, tools, and plain-language guidance for families in the first hours and days after a loved one goes missing — free, and built by people who have been there.
Right now, in this order
- Call the police. Do not wait. There is no 24-hour or 72-hour waiting period anywhere in the U.S. If the person is a child, an older adult, or has a medical condition, say so immediately — it changes how police respond.
- Get the report number and the officer's name. Write them down. Ask that the person be entered into the national NCIC missing persons database.
- Gather a recent photo and a description. Clothing, height, weight, marks, vehicle, phone number, medications. Then build a flyer in about three minutes.
- Start the timeline. Last confirmed contact, last known location, who saw them last. Save texts, call logs, and social media activity. How to retrace steps →
Tools for families
Flyer Builder
Fill in a short form, add a photo, and download a print-ready missing person poster plus a square image for social media. Nothing you enter is uploaded or stored.
Build a flyerMissing Persons Database
Cases submitted by families and reviewed before posting. Search by name, state, city, or age, and find the right number to call with a tip.
Search casesGuidance & Resources
What changes for an adult vs. a child vs. an elder, how to work with police, requesting camera footage, and the national agencies that can help.
Read the guidesWhy this site exists
When my brother went missing, we didn't know where to start — who to call, what the police needed from us, whether the rules were different because he was an adult, or how much the first hours mattered. We learned all of it the hard way, in real time.
Missing Humans is the guide we wish we'd had: one place with the first steps, the tools to spread the word fast, and a way for families to post a case where others can see it. It is free, it always will be, and it is not a substitute for law enforcement — it's what helps you work with them.
Submit a missing person