In this Sunday, June 9, 2019 photo at left, Denali Brehmer, 18, stands at her arraignment in the Anchorage Correctional Center in Anchorage, Alaska. At right is her murder victim, Cynthia Hoffman. (Image at left: Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP; image at right: Anchorage Police Department)
Murder victim Cynthia “CeeCee” Hoffman, 19, believed that Denali Dakota Skye Brehmer, 23 was her best friend , but now, more than four years after she was bound in duct tape and shot to death near a waterfall, that so-called best friend received a virtual life sentence in an Alaska court for carrying out the heinous act.
According to her father, CeeCee Hoffman had a learning disability that kept her from being the best at academics, but she followed through and graduated in 2018 from Service High. After school, she and her sisters worked with their dad on job sites, measuring windows, churning concrete, and working hard. The weekend she disappeared, she was supposed to get some cash from her dad and go to the mall — a reward for helping him prepare a camper. She told her dad she was on the way to get her portion of the money. But she never did.