Henson said his sister, Holbert and the family friend, identified only as Justin, met for the first time a week or two before her disappearance.
Henson said Justin was in Fayetteville to visit Bordeaux. The two had been friends since Bordeaux and her family moved about 20 miles from Orlando, Fla., to the small town of St. Cloud in 1996 to escape escalating crime problems.
Henson said he is suspicious that his sister sent the text message to Justin because it doesn't appear that she ever made it home.
"Everything was sitting like you would leave it and you were going to come back in a few hours or whatever," he said.