Some servers claim to be persistent but are not. You can test this by dropping an item and seeing if it's there still the next day. Even on persistent servers tents are glitchy at best. I find none of my items show in my tent after i freshly log in, until i place an item in the tent.

This happened to me as well, game crashed in Large Apartment. Searched a balcony on reload and noticed my own dead body outside. It only had duplicate weapons and gear, none of the items on me.