Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff Built a Following on Death-Defying Stunts at the Same Condemned Brazilian Bridge Where He and Two Coworkers Allegedly Killed a 21-Year-Old
Three men have been charged with homicide in the death of Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, after they threw her off a 130-foot bridge in Limeira, Sao Paulo on Saturday without attaching her rope. Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, a civil firefighter (bombeiro civil) tied to the rope jump operation, held her body alongside Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42. Vitor de Freitas Goncalves, 27, held her feet.
Egoroff had spent years posting stunts from the same bridge. In a 2023 video he sprinted off the edge holding the rope in one hand while a small child clung to his neck. Other clips show him and coworkers clearing concrete columns by inches and flipping mid-air on the cords. The footage built him a following well before the homicide charge.
All three men worked for a company called Entre Cordas. Video of Saturday’s jump shows them hoisting Freitas into a horizontal “Superman” pose, arms outstretched, and hurling her off the Skeleton Bridge. The safety rope sat coiled and unused on the platform beside them. She had asked to be launched “like a plane.”
Freitas was an aspiring physical education teacher. She had paid roughly R$180 (about $32) for the jump and another R$150 (about $27) for a 360-degree GoPro-style video the operators sold as an add-on. She was wearing a helmet. Her boyfriend was among the roughly 20 people on the bridge, several of whom screamed about the unattached rope as the men lifted her.
The activity was a rope jump, a pendulum swing on climbing-style ropes after the freefall, not a true elastic bungee, though local coverage uses the terms interchangeably. She fell roughly 40 meters into the ravine below.
Two of the men fled into the woods after the throw and were tracked down with help from a military helicopter. Six people connected to the operation were initially taken to Limeira’s 2nd Police District for questioning, including three reportedly working a tent that handed out bracelets and tickets; those three were later released. The charges are homicide with eventual intent and carry six to 30 years if convicted.
Their lawyer says none of them can say who was supposed to clip Freitas in. Two told police they had a “blackout” and can’t remember. The third said he was only brought over to help with the throw.
An off-duty nurse named Rayza Dias climbed down a single rope through steep, muddy terrain and reached Freitas at the bottom of the ravine. Freitas was still breathing, with a weak pulse. “I even talked to her,” Dias told Domingo Espetacular. “I have a habit of joking and saying, ‘Nobody dies on my shift.’ And I told her, ‘Duda, nobody dies on my shift.'” Freitas died at the scene from polytrauma.
The Skeleton Bridge is an abandoned federal railway structure. A cyclist died falling from it in 2024, after which the government ordered danger signs installed. Freitas had posted a photo of one of those signs on her own Instagram. The caption under her jump read: “Who was the crazy one who let me come jump off a bridge?”
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