The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is offering some insight into two cases of human remains found in a week's time along Rainwood Road.Douglas County deputies identified the body found Monday as Patrick Weber, a missing man from Kearney.His mother said he would've never vanished on his own."Are they gonna find this person is there any way we can find out who did this and why, why, why did they do it?" said Sandy Day.Douglas County deputies are treating the case as a homicide.They said it's not connected to the skull found last week. "I knew in my heart something told me something had happened to Pat," Day said.Day said she knew her son would never leave without telling someone where he was off to. He didn’t show up for work and it raised warning flags for her.She said she knew something was very wrong when his dog was found abandoned in a Council Bluffs motel room hours away from his Kearney home.Nearly three weeks later, her worst fears were confirmed: The Douglas County Sheriff's Office found the 56-year-old's body near 66th and Rainwood Road."They're sad. They're frustrated. They question why, and that's a hard part because I don't have those answers,” said Douglas County Sheriff’s’ Office Capt. Eric Sellers.DCSO said Weber was reported missing in Council Bluffs, after Day tried to report him missing in Kearney.His mother believes he may have been meeting a date in Council Bluffs, or stopping by the casinos. She said he had gone through a rough patch in life, including a recent arrest for meth, but was on a better path.The sheriff's office said Weber's car was spotted in Bellevue, but officers there didn't tow it away. DCSO said it was unable to recover the car later.It, and Weber’s phone, are still missing. Weber's mom said the phone rings through.“Somebody is charging that phone and still using it, and we've been calling it, we’ve left texts on it for Pat,” Day said.The sheriff's office said warrants are being written to access Weber's phone and social media data. “In this particular case, we have to at least two if not all three agencies writing different search warrants,” Sellers said.He added, deputies are not releasing the cause of death to protect the investigation, as it’s something only the killer and deputies know.Sellers said this is not related to a human skull found off 216th and Rainwood Road last week. They said the skull belongs to a man between 25 and 50, who is not Black, and has been there for between two and 20 years. He adds there are no apparent signs of trauma, but the skull is degraded."There's no way for us to determine the cause of death in that particular case, to be able to rule as a homicide,” Sellers said.Cadaver dogs couldn't find any other bones. “The dogs alerted on nothing. There was no disturbed ground. So, we did an extensive search out there and found nothing else but the skull,” Sellers said.Sellers said a tooth has been sent off to be tested for DNA, but it may not provide an identity unless the person’s DNA is in a database already.They don't believe Weber's case is connected to another case last summer, either. Deputies found Lamar Nedd's body near 84th and Rainwood Road.“Two different lives. They don't run in the same circles there. There's nothing apparent that would make us think that they know anybody, you know, that would cause harm to them,” Sellers said.Deputies want to stop any rumors that there may be a serial killer dumping bodies along Rainwood.“I've seen a lot on social media that there's a serial killer in town because we have three bodies on Rainwood, we've tried to explain why we don't think that. It's a dark road. It's just north of the interstate, south of Highway 36. If you're going to discard something and you don't want people to see it, it just seems to be a common spot. It’s a coincidence,” Sellers said.They do plan to step up patrols there. Deputies want you to keep an eye out for Weber’s blue 1996 Buick LeSabre with NE Plate 9E7999. It was last seen parked and unoccupied near the 8200 Block of South 48th Street in Bellevue. Call 402-444-6000 if you have any information in these cases."We're working 15, 16, 17-hour days to get through this. We're going to do everything we can. We're working around the clock to solve these and find the person who's responsible for this,” Sellers said.Sellers said these cases are also not believed to be related to a missing man found hidden inside a car at an impound lot in Omaha, or a Council Bluffs woman found dead earlier this month.Sheriff Aaron Hanson added that because investigators are focused on these homicides, other cases are being marked as lower priority, despite detectives having leads in some of them. He said their priority is keeping the county safe.Get the latest headlines from KETV NewsWatch 7