Tempted by the false promise of $9 million by a man she met online, Denali Dakota Skye Brehmer lured her so-called best friend into the Alaskan wilderness where the teenager was bound with duct tape and shot in the head as part of a brutal murder plot.
What began with a bizarre online catfishing scheme, ended in the death of Cynthia “CeeCee ” Hoffman, 19, who was developmentally disabled.
A man from Indiana, Darin Schilmiller, then 21, posed as a millionaire from Kansas called “Tyler” on Snapchat . He struck up a relationship with Brehmer, who was 18 years old at the time, and offered to send her millions of dollars via PayPal for the “rape and murder of someone in Alaska ”.
Brehmer agreed. She enlisted other friends into the plot and then on June 2, 2019, they carried out the murder of CeeCee near Thunderbird Falls, a popular trail area just north of Anchorage. Her death was captured in photos and video that were sent back to “Tyler” on Snapchat as proof.