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What woman normally stores a handbag with left luggage or at a coat check place? What was wife doing while the handbag was out of her sight? Also, if you had a rental car in the hotel's garage (which sounds like it wasn't valet parking since you "went straight to the airport from the hotel parking garage"), why not just put the luggage directly into your locked trunk when you checked out?
In fact, did you try to use your Plat late checkout privileges and just keep the room until you were ready to depart for the airport?
It might help to at least know which country in Asia this was. There are very different attitudes toward theft in this region.