Sounds like some of my air plane trips. I went to Hawaii and my overnight case vacationed somewhere else. Somewhere that had rough handling, even my lipstick came open and so did the cap off a bottle of DH's medicine. Powder all over it, but everything was there when it finally came home to me.
Don't you wish that we had a microchip that we could access from a satellite? And a cop could follow the signal to where it was being used?