K&B Transportation: I Should Have Known Better

I guess my K&B saga is over, so I'll let you guys know what happened.

I spoke to the truck center in Rochelle, IL who K&B instructed to remove my personal items from the truck so they could fix the wheel studs. They told me they had my stuff and sent me a picture of some stuff on a pallet. I could see my cooler and my 5 gallon bucket, but everything else was in black plastic garbage bags. He said he wouldn't go through it all and tell me what was there. It looked like a decent heap of bags so I thought it might all be there.

I drove out to Rochelle, IL from Detroit in my personal vehicle. They brought out the pallet and as I was loading my belongings into my car I noticed that everything of any significant monetary value was missing. This includes:
-My 15-degree synthetic sleeping bag
-InstantPot pressure cooker
-RoadPro Box oven
-RoadPro hot water heater
-My duffel bag (the green kind that zip up the middle with the backpack straps)
-Ninja Bullet blender (Brand new, never used)
-Laundry detergent and other "household" items
-Bags of food
-Dishes (These likely were moldy and the repair center employee said he threw out anything with mold)
-2 Journals
-Bag of hand tools (This was left in the truck and is at K&B yard)
-Black Leather Zip-up Portfolio (with legal pad, pens, etc)
-Brand new coat/sweatshirt (the kind with the fuzzy inside)

I'm sure I'm not remembering everything.

Things that were returned to me:
My clothes
Plastic Tupperware Cabinets
THE MANUAL TO MY INSTANT POT WITH ALL THE ACCESSORIES
TWO BLENDING CUPS THAT CAME WITH THE NINJA BLENDER
A bag of papers with a bunch of old bills and my birth certificate
My cooler
5 gallon bucket
My work boots and gloves
Sheets and pillows

I immediately called the local police, who then "turned it over to county" sheriffs. The sheriff arrived and refused to inventory the items I was claiming were missing, or the items that were returned to me. He told me I couldn't come inside with him to talk to the employees, but then eventually relented.

Turns out he's a "good old boy" on a first name basis with half of the employees. Handshakes all around. "How's the family." That kind of thing. Does a cursory questioning of the employee who cleaned out my truck who could barely look me in the face and was obviously having a moral battle internally. Sheriff decides there's nothing to be done and that's that.

No attorney will take the case because the value of the stolen property isn't great enough. Police in all 3 counties involved are telling me I have no case as I do not have documentation of the items that were in the truck.

Basically K&B wins. They gave me the runaround, and successfully at that. I drove 800 miles to recover a small fraction of my belongings in addition to the rental car/gas and motel in Joliet.

Pretty surreal situation.