Overview
- Video that circulated after Saturday showed 21‑year‑old Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas being hoisted and thrown from the Ponte do Esqueleto without a safety rope attached, and she died after the roughly 130‑foot fall.
- Police have detained several people and arrested three instructors — Luis Egoroff, Vitor Goncalves and Maicon Cintra — who have been charged with homicide for engaging in dangerous acts that caused death.
- Investigators report a GoPro that may have recorded the jump is missing and are probing whether evidence was removed or concealed as they reconstruct who failed to attach or check the safety line.
- Limeira and São Paulo officials have begun blocking access to the viaduct and approved a phased demolition plan that includes building barriers and eventually imploding the structure to prevent further tragedies.
- The site was long known locally as hazardous, with warning signs and past attempts to block access, and the case has prompted calls for tighter oversight of informal rope‑jump operations and possible civil actions by city authorities.