Sorry I can't help with your old laptop, but you may consider some tracking software next time.

Once you are not in possession of your mobile device(these things work for other devices too), you log onto the site and wait for you device to connect to internet. You can then get various levels of info in depending on the software. You can then recover your laptop with help of police. I guess the flaw is that it has to connect to the internet, but that is highly likely nowadays.

Your story has actually prompted me to to finally install this on my laptop.