Built to help missing-person cases stay visible, shareable, and handled responsibly.

CaseTrace is a mission-first public awareness platform designed to support responsible case sharing, official source visibility, and safer public engagement.

Mission Statement

CaseTrace was created to help missing-person cases become easier to find, understand, and responsibly share. Many cases exist across official databases, agency notices, flyers, and public posts, but the information is often difficult for everyday people to discover or act on safely. CaseTrace is designed to bring awareness tools into one simple, mobile-first experience while keeping official sources, public safety, and responsible information sharing at the center.

The mission is not to replace law enforcement, NamUs, NCIC, NCMEC, or any official investigative process. Official records remain with the investigating agency or original source. CaseTrace exists to support visibility, help the public share cases more effectively, and provide clearer paths for tips, corrections, agency review, and family-sensitive updates.

Every case deserves accuracy, dignity, and care. Every user should understand that awareness is not investigation. CaseTrace encourages people to share responsibly, avoid speculation, and submit credible information through proper channels.

This project is being built with a long-term goal: to create a trusted awareness layer that can help families, agencies, and communities keep more missing-person cases visible, organized, and easier to support.

Founder Story

My name is Brad Lucas, and I created CaseTrace because missing-person cases have always stayed with me.

For as long as I can remember, I have followed missing-person stories and wondered how so many cases could fade from public attention while families continued searching for answers. I am not in law enforcement, and CaseTrace is not meant to replace the work of investigators, agencies, NamUs, NCIC, NCMEC, or any official source. But with my background in IT and technology, I felt there was something I could build to help.

CaseTrace was created as a public-awareness platform: a way to make missing-person cases easier to find, easier to share, and easier to connect back to official sources. My goal is to support visibility while encouraging responsible action - not speculation, confrontation, or independent investigation.

This project is my attempt to use the skills I have to make a real impact. If CaseTrace can help one family keep a case visible, help one person share responsibly, or help one agency get credible information in front of more people, then it is worth building.

CaseTrace is still growing, but the mission is simple: help missing-person cases stay visible, accurately represented, and treated with the dignity they deserve.

CaseTrace Trust Center

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