I agree. In fact, someone else could easily use the knowledge that your suspicion would immediately fall on this one person to hide their own actions.
Or perhaps someone completely unknown walked in through an open back door and took it?
They would have to go to the coffee maker, remove the little toy from the top, flip open the lid, take out the money, replace the lid and the toy. My own reasoning is that "x" removed the little toy, which weighed the lid down, to have a look at it, saw the lid slightly up which revealed the rolled up notes inside.
In the interests of accuracy it's not an actual pot, just one of those coffee makers which has a glass pot on a heating plate and you pour the water into the container at the side. The money was in that container part. For security reasons I always keep the back door locked, even when I am in the house and have a dog who doesn't welcome strangers.
Which is why you need to involve the Guards - they will ask the right questions and hopefully help you get to the root of the matter.
As I said, my inlaws are not the type who would "understand", believe me.
Im astonished that someone would even consider not going to the Guards for a theft like this - its a crime, if someone in your home had threatened you with a knife you would report it wouldnt you?
Totally different scenario, no comparison there. I wasn't hurt or physically threatened thank goodness but I appreciate your thoughts.