One of the bungee jumping instructors charged in the death of a student in Brazil previously joked about throwing bodies off the bridge, filming a sick stunt at the same site where the young woman recently lost her life.
Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, filmed and shared a video on Instagram showing him and other instructors hurling a black bag made to look like a dead body off of Skeleton Bridge, reported Brazilian outlet O Globo.
The video, titled “Hiding the body,” was posted on social media in September 2022, almost four years before the death of 21-year-old Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, who was thrown off the bridge in Limeira, São Paulo state, without a safety rope on Saturday.
The twisted clip has resurfaced in the wake of de Freitas’s death, with many social media users slamming it as poor taste and tagging local authorities, including the São Paulo Civil Police and Public Prosecutor’s Office.
“Prophetic, it finally happened. The girl died as rehearsed… There are things that we shouldn’t play with at all,” one user wrote.
It isn’t clear if the other instructors featured in the dark joke video are Egoroff’s fellow suspects, Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves, 27, and Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42, who have also been charged with de Freitas’s death.
On Tuesday, the trio was transferred from a regional prison to another detention center in São Paulo at the request of their lawyer.
This was done to “preserve the physical integrity of the accused,” their attorney, Rafael Gomes dos Santos, told O Globo.