An Alaska woman hoping to cash in after a man offered her $9 million in an online murder-for-hire plot has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for orchestrating the fatal shooting of her friend, state officials said.
Denali Dakota Skye Brehmer previously pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 2019 contract killing of Cynthia Hoffman, prosecutors said in a news release this week.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced Brehmer, 24, on Wednesday following a two-day sentencing hearing, prosecutors said.
Hoffman, 19, was fatally shot at Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak, an unincorporated community about 20 miles northeast of downtown Anchorage.
“(Brehmer) conspired with numerous other individuals in and outside of Alaska, including juveniles, forever altering everybody’s life,” Anchorage Assistant District Attorney Patrick McKay told the judge before he sentenced Brehmer. “She may not have pulled the trigger, but this never would have happened it if it weren’t for Denali Brehmer.”