Overview
- Investigators say 21-year-old Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was launched from the 40-metre Ponte do Esqueleto on June 13 without a safety rope and died on impact.
- The three instructors arrested at the scene remain in preventive detention and face homicide charges under the legal doctrine of 'dolo eventual', which holds that they foreseen and accepted the risk of causing death through extreme negligence.
- Police found the safety equipment rolled on the launch platform and say witnesses reported no final safety check before the jump, and a video already in the case shows the victim being led to the edge and pushed forward.
- The probe has widened with three more detentions, two in Limeira and one in Rio de Janeiro, and officers are searching for the 360° camera the victim wore because its footage could clarify the moments before the fall.
- Public and police scrutiny has focused on the Instagram-based group 'Entre Cuerdas', which had no formal registration, charged about 180 reais per jump, and whose promoters include a man whose social posts show reckless stunts and a 2022 clip joking about 'disposing of a corpse', while the victim’s family has publicly mourned her loss.