I'm glad you turned the laptops over to a computer tech. Even though things appear to be deleted, in many instances, they are not gone forever. I had something very similar happen to me and what it boiled down to was he was trying to erase the cookies so that I couldn't see where he had been. What my computer tech found shocked the h@ll out of me and from that day onward, I'd looked at my xh with a different vision.
Sit quietly, the answers will reveal themselves when you least expect them to. The past is gone, the present is a gift and you need to focus on today, allow the future to reveal itself when it is ready.
