A photo from the bride’s wedding day contains an odd but comforting touch for a mother who lost her daughter in a fatal drowning in the family’s garden spa.

Their lives were turned upside down in September 2022 when Tahlia and Cecil Murphy, both 28, learned that their daughter Taidyn “Totty” Murphy, 17 months old at the time, had passed away at their home in Gracemere, in the Rockhampton region of Queensland.

A mysterious stranger lurks in the background of the sunny photo of Tahlia and Cecil kissing to be discovered.
She told Daily Mail Australia, ‘Our whole day was for her, we had a big beautiful A3 picture of her, she had her own seat allocated and a bouquet done for her, our eldest daughter walked down the aisle with her ashes and some of her ashes were also put in my and my husband’s ring.’

Tahlia was devastated that her daughter couldn’t attend the wedding, but as a friend pointed out a tiny figure in one of the pictures, she began to feel a little better.