I thought to ask myself this question to humor you, then considered Retal's death. If he had an item, and following your line of defense here, someone should have randomly gained his item then. But that didn't happen, did it? Either he did not have an item on him, someone received the item and has not spoken up, or your defense fell apart at the first sentence. An additional fourth turnout is whoever killed Retal has his item. Wouldn't that be funny.
But hey, it's just a question you wanted us to ask ourselves.