Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff Built a Following in Death-Defying Games on an Abandoned Bridge in Brazil where he and two co-workers killed a 21-year-old girl.
Three men have been charged with murder in the death of Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, after they threw her off a 130-meter bridge in Limeira, Sao Paulo on Saturday without attaching her rope. Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, a firefighter (bombeiro civil) who was arrested in a noose, held his body next to Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42. Vitor de Freitas Goncalves, 27, held his feet.
Egoroff had spent years posting stunts on the same bridge. In the 2023 video he ran off the edge holding a rope with one hand while a small child clung to his neck. Other clips show him and his colleagues removing concrete columns by inches and flipping through the air on ropes. This video made him a good name before the murder case.
All three men work for a company called Entre Cordas. Video of Saturday’s jump shows them lifting Freitas into a horizontal “Superman” position, arms outstretched, and throwing him off the Skeleton Bridge. The safety rope was always coiled and unused on the platform beside them. He had asked to be introduced as “a plane.”
Freitas was a passionate teacher of physical education. You paid about R180 (about $32) for the jump and another R$150 (about $27) for the GoPro-style 360-degree video that the operators sell as an add-on. He was wearing a hat. Her boyfriend was among about 20 people on the bridge, most of whom cried from the loose rope when the men lifted him up.
The activity was rope-jumping, a pendulum swing on ropes climbing-style after a fall, not a true elastic bungee, although local coverage uses the terms interchangeably. He fell about 40 meters into the ravine below.
Two of the men fled into the forest after the gun was fired and were tracked down with the help of a military helicopter. Six people linked to the operation were initially taken to the Second Police District of Limeira for investigation, including three who reportedly operate a tent that issues bracelets and tickets; those three were later released. The charges are first degree murder and carry a prison term of six to 30 years if convicted.
Their lawyer says that none of them can say who should have installed Freitas. Two told police they “blacked out” and could not remember. The third said he was brought in to help throw.
An off-duty nurse named Rayza Dias descended the steep, muddy terrain on a single rope and reached Freitas at the bottom of the canyon. Freitas was still breathing, and his heart was weak. “I even talked to him,” Dias told Domingo Espetacular. “I have a habit of joking, ‘Nobody dies in my job.’ I said to him, ‘Dude, nobody dies in my job.’” Freitas died at the scene from polytrauma.
The Skeleton Bridge is an abandoned railway structure. A cyclist died in a fall on it in 2024, after which the government ordered the installation of danger signs. Freitas posted a photo of one of those signs on his Instagram. The caption below his jump read: “Who let me jump off the bridge?”
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