A Young Woman Bungee Jumps To Her Death, Three People Charged With Murder
Amy & T.J.
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A tragic story out of Brazil this weekend. Video of a 21-year-old woman attending a bungee jumping event is circulating online. It shows the final moments of Maria Eduarda Rodrigues De Freitas with a helmet and harness being lifted up by three men and then thrown off the bridge. The problem, the rope wasn’t secured and De Freitas fell to her death. The three men who threw her are now facing homicide charges. We talk about just how dangerous bungee jumping is, before you plan your next adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | It is Monday, June 15th, and a tragic bungee jumping accident. |
| 0:13.5 | A woman has died after bungee jumping. |
| 0:18.8 | It's all caught on video, caught on multiple angles, and now people |
| 0:25.1 | have been arrested and charged with murder in this case. |
| 0:28.3 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:31.9 | Robs, where do we start with this one? |
| 0:34.7 | But this is an awful, awful tragedy in Robs. |
| 0:37.2 | We see these every once |
| 0:38.6 | and a while, but they are rare. Yes, they are rare and that should be noted, but look, this is something |
| 0:44.2 | that a lot of folks have on their bucket lists and this is something that folks like to do when |
| 0:49.8 | they're on vacation maybe or even plan an outing. And this young woman, and she was young, 21 years old, |
| 0:57.1 | her name Maria Eduardo Rodriguez de Freitas. And she actually signed up as a part of a group to go on |
| 1:03.8 | this bungee jumping adventure and was excited about it. And it's something that a lot of people |
| 1:09.5 | think about and plan to do. |
| 1:12.5 | They're a little nervous, but you know, you trust the equipment. You trust the people who are |
| 1:17.3 | guiding you. You trust the ropes. There's no other way to do something like this other than to do |
| 1:23.2 | that or go in with that mindset. And with that mindset, Robs, you talk about trust in the equipment. |
| 1:30.6 | This is the case of trusting the people. Yes. The equipment in this case, folks, didn't even have |
| 1:37.3 | the opportunity to fail. Yes, because the rope was not secured. And I'm sure if any of you have been online, you may have |
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