Where DID the GoPro go? Brazil police desperately search for camera woman wore that filmed her own bungee death jump – as workers keep lips sealed

Just hours before falling to her death from a 130ft bridge in Brazil, 21-year-old Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas took to Instagram like she does most days.

The aspiring physical education teacher has maintained an active online presence, posting gym selfies and close-ups to document nearly every aspect of her daily life.

Investigators now believe he personally documented the precise moment of his death with terrifying bird’s-eye views of the fall.

Moments before Rodrigues de Freitas was thrown ‘airplane style’ from the abandoned bridge, two instructors held him over their shoulders as he extended his arms fully and he was apparently given a GoPro camera to document his descent.

The Brazilian woman was wearing a helmet and appeared to be wearing a seatbelt, but she was completely severed from the structure when workers threw her over the edge.

Investigators believe the missing camera that has apparently become the focus of the case may have held unimaginable footage of Rodrigues de Freitas’ fatal descent.

Local pedagogue Rafael Goulart, who was waiting in line as Rodrigues de Freitas fell from the bridge, claimed that one of the bungee jumping workers approached his motionless body after the fall.

“They were worried about the equipment to preserve evidence or because of its financial value,” he said TV Globo.

Brazilian 21-year-old Rodrigues de Freitas was thrown to death on the Skeleton Bridge in Limeira, Sao Paulo, on Saturday.

Three men, Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff (32), Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves (27) and Maicon Fernandes Cintra (42), were arrested on charges of murder with ultimate intent.

Andrea Dantas Levy, the police chief in charge of the case, said Monday that the vital camera in question may have been taken. During interrogation, no one could explain his whereabouts.

“To be honest, given the number of people who came to the bridge later looking for him, I don’t think he was still there,” Levy said.

‘Unfortunately, I believe someone may have taken the camera,’ he continued.

Levy announced that he went to the scene with the forensic team but could not find the camera in question. G1.

The police chief added that the camera belonged to the organizers, whom he said “cannot be called a company”, and that Rodrigues de Freitas was present at the time of the fatal incident.

“It probably slipped from the victim’s hand during the fall, even though it was tied to his wrist,” Levy said.

Brazilian authorities arrested three men (32-year-old Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 27-year-old Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves, and 42-year-old Maicon Fernandes Cintra) who held Rodrigues de Freitas over their heads.

They were charged with murder with ultimate intent; but one of the suspects, Egoroff, has already said that he does not remember what happened before the incident.

In his statement, Egoroff said, “I left first, then it disappeared from my mind.” CNN Brazil. ‘I can’t remember’

Brazilian police are still searching for the GoPro camera they claim Rodrigues de Freitas had when he fell to his death.

Rodrigues de Freitas broke the bridge in an Instagram story posted around 7.30am, writing the following caption: ‘Who was the crazy person who let me jump off the bridge???’

Gonçalves told authorities that Rodrigues de Freitas’ death was “actual death.”

However, he insisted that ‘no one should leave their home with the intention of doing such a thing’.

At the detention hearing on Sunday, Sao Paulo prosecutor’s office representative Enrico Paisani confirmed that Rodrigues de Freitas was holding the GoPro when he was thrown from the bridge, CNN Brazil reported.

Judge Paulo Henrique Stahlberg, who presided over the case in Natal, stated that the camera worn when Rodrigues de Freitas fell could not be found.

Rafael Gomes dos Santos, a lawyer representing the bungee jumping instructors, claimed someone may have taken the missing GoPro.

“There was a crowd of people there,” Gomes dos Santos said. Folha de Sao Paulo.

Gomes dos Santos also said the trainers were shaken and that they had been doing this job for years without anything similar happening. BBC Brazil.

In a television interview, he claimed that his clients did not know how to explain that Rodrigues de Freitas was thrown off the bridge without any attachments.

The camera Rodrigues de Freitas had while bungee jumping could be key to the next step in the investigation into his tragic death

When Rodrigues de Freitas died, Rafael Goulart, who was waiting in line, attacked the workers on duty and said that they had assassinated the young woman.

Judge Paulo Henrique Stahlberg, Natal, said the GoPro camera worn by Rodrigues de Freitas when he fell to his death remains untraceable (file photo)

Judge Natal wrote that before Rodrigues de Freitas’ fatal fall, trainers failed to follow basic protocols such as double-checking.

“By not wearing the safety rope, which is the necessary equipment to prevent death, and by not performing the mandatory pre-dive check, the defendants risked the victim’s death by freefalling,” Natal said.

Surprisingly, he claimed that technical instructions were not communicated before death.

Pedagogue Goulart, who was waiting in line to jump when Rodrigues de Freitas died, described the incident as ‘a disgrace’.

Describing his death as ‘assassination’, Goulart directly targeted those who carried out the bungee jumping operation.

‘They killed the girl,’ he said Metropolis TV. ‘This was not an accident. This was not a security error. ‘They didn’t do the bare minimum for the sport to happen.’

Goulart added: ‘The name of the sport is rope jumping. He jumps with a rope. “They didn’t use ropes.”

In a video that spread after the death of Rodrigues de Freitas, people around were heard shouting ‘rope, people, rope’ as the employees released the young woman.

“The first scene I remember was one of the employees removing the GoPro camera strap from the neck of the body that was already on the ground,” Goulart said. TV Globo.

One of the trainers, 32-year-old Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, claimed that he could not remember the events that resulted in Rodrigues de Freitas’ fatal fall.

Vitor de Freitas Goncalves, 27, told authorities that “nobody left their home with the intention of doing something like that,” referring to the death of Rodrigues de Freitas.

Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42, was one of three people arrested in connection with the death of Rodrigues de Freitas.

The men in the crash video were wearing T-shirts bearing the ‘Entre Cordas’ and ‘Ih Voei’ logos.

According to local police, the names of these groups were linked to unofficial practitioners. G1 reported.

But there was no real official company behind the jumping operation.

The three men are alleged to be a group of sports enthusiasts who started organizing events in various locations about a year ago.

Rodrigues de Freitas’ mother, Valdenia Rodrigues, paid tribute to her ‘princess’ on Sunday.

“My dear daughter, today alone I wanted to hug you more than a thousand times,” Rodrigues wrote. ‘How sad it makes me to see you go. I love you forever my princess. And thank you so much for being a part of my life for these 21 years.

‘What an honor it was to hear you call me mom. “God, thank you for this privilege,” he wrote on Instagram.

Around 7.31am on Saturday morning, Freitas posted a photo of the Skeleton Bridge in Limeira, Sao Paulo and wrote: ‘Who was the crazy person who let me jump off the bridge???’ This would be one of his last messages.