How Much Evidence is Needed for Burglary Charges

to charge? almost nothing...to find guilty, enough

Well, now that I am confident that I have enough evidence, thanks in part to postings made on this forum, I am now in need of the suspect! She may be on the run.
Got an update from the detective that she tried a few leads, and tried to call her on her cell phone, but the cell phone number is now out of service. I had used that same number, which is now out of service, less than 4 days ago to contact the suspect.

Not sure if she is still enrolled in school, as I need to clarify what leads the detective tried to follow up on. I do wonder at what point I may want to escalate this within the police department, since the detective I am dealing with is overloaded with cases (typical of crime ridden Las Vegas).

Escalate it how? Complaining to a supervisor who may have been the one that asked the detective to back-burner your case for whatever reason? Police departments have to prioritize the caseload based on whatever factors they use, some of which are normally:
Amount of evidence available, freshness of the case, seriousness of the case, anything else that might affect the odds of successfully resolving the case.

As I am not privy to all these factors, I cannot say why the detective may have taken the course of action they have. You state in your OP that the case had dead-ended until you found the notebook, meaning that they may have had little or no evidence to use to pursue someone until that find. Odds are that if it was at a dead-end, the detective was not putting a lot of time into it. Why chase your tail? It has been less than a week since you found your new evidence, the detective will probably have to clear any current active investigations before returning to your case. And then a "hot" case may again interfere. Given that you just found the notebook, which is of dubious evidentiary value until it is authenticated, you have to give the system time to work.

If the police are unable or unwilling to pursue the matter criminally for whatever reason, then sue her in small claims court. If your evidence is as damning as you believe it to be, you should win a judgement handily.

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Quoting cdwjava

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If the police are unable or unwilling to pursue the matter criminally for whatever reason, then sue her in small claims court. If your evidence is as damning as you believe it to be, you should win a judgement handily.

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Things might be developing sooner rather than later, as the suspect sent me an email stating she would get her cell phone activated and wants to meet to get her stuff back. I contacted the detective and the detective said she would "love to surprise her" at that meeting!!!!

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Quoting VegasLegal01

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Things might be developing sooner rather than later, as the suspect sent me an email stating she would get her cell phone activated and wants to meet to get her stuff back. I contacted the detective and the detective said she would "love to surprise her" at that meeting!!!!

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That sounds promising. Hopefully it works out.

The detective is now out of the office until the end of November, so this really delays things. Fortunately, the perp has delayed getting her belongings back from me, after initially agreeing to get them late last week. I will just have to delay her until the detective is back in the office, so the detective can be at the meeting when I turn the stuff over to the perp. Time is on my side, in some ways, but it is frustrating having to wait.....I'll just have to remain patient.

Yes! My ex-roommate has been arrested for the burglary of my home. The detective called me to let me know the former roomie went in for a meeting today (I guess meeting sounds friendlier than questioning), and after confronted with the "diary" evidence, and other information, she confessed to her involvement in the burglary. She told the detective that she had moved in with her boyfriend after moving out of my house, and that it was the boyfriends idea to burglarize my house. The former roomie was wanted on a bench warrant, for late payment of traffic fines in another jurisdiction, and the detective used that info to keep the former roomie, who I might now refer to as "burglar girl", around for more questioning. She let "burglar girl" know that if she did not stick around for more questioning, she was going to turn her over to the police in the other jurisdiction for the bench warrant.
Tonight, "burglar girl" is locked up and charged with grand larceny and grand theft auto!!!!!!!!!!!! What a relief!