(A-P) — Police say a man reported missing in February in Omaha was a homicide victim. Police in Council Bluffs took a missing person report on 37-year-old Joseph Hellman, on Feb. 21. He was last seen in Omaha and the report was referred to Omaha police. Omaha police told the Omaha World-Herald investigators determined Hellman was killed weeks earlier in Omaha.

Police say investigators understood that Hellman died under suspicious circumstances but they couldn’t classify it as a homicide until this week. Police say they have a person of interest in custody on unrelated charges. Hellman’s body hasn’t been located.