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When a young woman tragically died just weeks after her wedding, local police sergeant Ronald McInnis warned "this is a story that is going to go all around the world." ‌

Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, married her beloved Billy on June 9, 2012. Within a few months, she was dead, having drowned in her own wedding dress after uttering some chilling final words. ‌

The Canadian-Greek estate agent had hoped to participate in the viral "trash the dress" trend at the time of her death, where newlyweds ruin their wedding dresses in dramatic ways for their social media followers. ‌

The photos are "symbolic, representing the end of the wedding and [the bride]'s transformation of a bride to a wife".

Inspiration pages on websites like Brides.com suggest methods such as splashing t

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