Stolen phone reappearing on my Wifi network - questions for proof of a crime

Background info My stepdaughters phone went missing about two weeks ago. On the smart wifi there is a device list and it has a history of all devices ever connected to my network. My stepdaughters iphone appeared as "Nicole's Iphone" under my network. Similarly everyone's devices appeared with their names. The day the phone went missing my stepdaughters iphone appeared as "offline". Yesterday while playing playstation I noticed my connection was a little shotty so i decided to check how many devices were connected to the router - and i see "Nicole's Iphone" was "online". Ecstatic, i called my wife and said we found the phone. My wife calls her mom and the mom questions the two girls if they had actually found the phone. Both of them denied it. But my neice had a brand new white iphone 5 (the same color and model as my step daughters missing phone) and it was connected to our wifi under "adriana's iphone" When questioned where she got the phone from because nobody had bought it for her she said a boy at school gave it to her. about 45 minutes had passed and the phone suddenly went offline again - she called the boy to come pick up the phone because "she didn't want any problems" When we told her to tell the boy to come back with the phone she all of a sudden doesn't know his address, his last name, and he magically doesnt respond to any of her messages when using another phone. The proof of theft My neice had a phone which i had blocked internet access to because i didnt know who's device it was and i thought it was a random person. The name in the device list came up as Wendy. Wendy is one of her friends who has been at the house before. Wendy gave her that phone and she reformatted it. Even though the name in the phone was now Jackie it still showed up in our device list as Abby because the MAC address never changed. I told my neice that the reason we know it is Nicole's Phone is because the MAC address of the device is the same therefore it is the same exact device. She claimed that the phone says Jackie and it is her friend's phone and she doesnt know why it is coming up under Nicole. She doesnt know about MAC addresess at all and that it is a unique code written into the device by the manufacturer. A call with customer service I called linksys technical support to voice my security concern and they confirmed that the mac address is unique. They also confirmed that I can assume that the phone is my step daughters iphone. What i need from the Linksys Community I am going to show my family this thread later in the day. Please confirm everything that I am trying to convey. This girl is 13 years old and stealing from her own family. I need backup to show my family that I am not falsely accusing anyone of a crime. Definitive evidence is definitive evidence. While they might not be tech savvy nobody can deny cold hard facts. I dont want to paint a negative portrayal of this girl because i do believe people make mistakes and i do believe she can be a productive member of society, But the lack of remorse is pissing me off. The look on her face is like there is no way in hell i can prove she stole the phone. Help me out.

you should be able to confirm the phone id number with your cell venxor as well. check for the imei number and they should be able to verify that

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