at first i thought it was my imagination but settlers seem to go missing one at a time, not the original warwick settlers, but settlers i send to the compound, at first i thought i just wasn't keeping track of how many settlers there were but its not my imagination, i sent two additional settlers there from sanctuary and so that made 8 people at warwick, then i noticed later on there were only 7 there, so i sent 2 more people making it 9, everything was ok for a while then i noticed there were only 8 people there, so thats 2 settlers missing, i just sent someone else from sanctuary there so its back to 9 but its annoying because i equip all the settlers with good weapons and combat armor, anyone else notice this, i haven't found their dead bodies anywhere and no signs of anything like that.

Hmm, I never noticed normal settlers missing,

but I saw some pre-built NPCs walking toward the ship wreckage and swimming toward spectacle island...



They all came back to settlement by the time I visit there next time though.



The other thread was mentioning some settlers being spawned into water tank and getting killed.

...maybe this...

I have had settlers disappear from a settlement before when I did a head count but they have always came back. The Vault Tech Rep once committed suicide by jumping off the overpass above Finch Farm which was funny. I did see something the other day; I was out in the Waste when I came upon a group of mutants with one Settler walking with them. I killed the Muties and the settler ran off but I couldn't help to wonder was he in process of being kidnapped or was this just some weird glitch.

Speaking of suicide by jumping, at Warwick...

That's my only guess - I've never seen settlers go missing like this.