Well,after a house fire 15 years ago I have never been able to find any trace of several valuable items of mine.There were lots of firemen and neighbors I didn’t recognize milling around.
Seriously.I have no idea who may have taken ,for instance,a couple expensive two-way radios and some tools I have never found.Much was packed from moving and it was just impossible to know what got left behind,what was destroyed in the fire and what walked off.And not insured at the time.
When the rented duplex , of my then young parents , burned circa 1956,helpful people carried away much of my mother’s linens and silverware,which she never saw again.
We had a mover leave lots of boxes behind once. He was over loaded and not only left some of the boxes behind, but broke apart antique dining chairs, broke decorative trim from a love seat, and damaged the top of a 120 year old dining table, to fit them on the truck. Upon reaching the destination, the furniture was crated and stored for six months, so it was almost impossible to prove where the problem occurred, except that the real estate agent reported the boxes and furniture that were left behind in the garage.