An Alaska woman who admitted to killing her “best friend” after being “catfished” by someone offering to pay $9 million for images of the crime has been sentenced to 99 years behind bars.
Denali Brehmer, now 23, pleaded guilty in February 2023 to first-degree murder – admitting that she had killed 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman on June 2, 2019.
The Anchorage woman was sentenced Monday to 99 years in prison for the murder-for-hire scheme, the Alaska Department of Law said in a release .
Brehmer was 18 when she and two other teens were catfished online by 21-year-old Darin Schilmiller, who pretended to be a millionaire named “Tyler” and persuaded them to sexually assault and kill Hoffman.
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The Indiana man offered $9 million for the “rape and murder of someone in Alaska” — and told the teens to send him photos and videos as they committed the heinous crime.