An eerie message sent to a friend became all the more sinister after the Australian woman who sent it went missing in Mexico.
Tahnee Shanks, 32, had be staying in holiday resort Cancun when she messaged her friend to remember a man's name before saying: "Just in case anything happens to me they can go after him."
Police have since launched missing person investigations for Ms Shanks and the man, Ms Shanks' partner after Tahnee's two-year-old toddler was found abandoned at a church in Cancun.
In the text message, she said "I know this is gunna sound weird but keep (his) name. Jorge Luis Aguirre Astudillo! Just in case anything happens to me they can go after him.
"Not that anything will! But I just want to keep that as a backup.", reports DailyMail.
Footage showed Ms Shanks and Mr Astudillo leaving the hotel together before passing a road toll out of town.
Once through the checkpoint they turned around and headed back to Cancun eight hours before toddler Adelynn was found at a church on the evening of May 2.
Mr Shanks said: "There's an eight-hour period from them going through that toll and Adelynn being dropped off in Cancun at that church.
"Then her phone stopped pinging pretty soon after that. It might have been a couple of hours I understand."
It is believed the couple must have used a different route to return to Cancun.
Her desperate brother has offered a one million peso reward (A$70,000) for information on his sister's disappearance, said he'd received a single message about his sister's disappearance.
He continued: "All the authorities said I would be swamped and it was a bad idea,
"We need closure...if she's dead, we need a body.
"I just can't leave it like this because all I can think of is that something worse than being murdered has happened, like she is being trafficked.
"It's in my nightmares... that if she is alive, she's not in a very nice place and what are (the authorities) doing about it? Nothing.
"This is why we need answers."
Toddler Adelynn has been returned to Australia by her grandmother and uncle earlier this month.
Police are considering if the couple were targeted by criminals in a random attack.
Mr Shanks also said that Australian authorities had to put in a request for information on the ongoing investigation because he had not received any update from Mexican police.
