23-year-old American woman Denali Brehmar shot and killed her best friend Cynthia Hoffman in 2019 after being catfished by a man she met online who offered her $9 million if murdered a person of her choice. The woman also involved her other friends in the killing that occurred in June 2019.
Earlier this year, Brehmer was convicted and sentenced to 99 years in jail for the murder, according to the Alaska law department, People Magazine has reported.
Catfished online, coerced to kill her friend
Denali Brehmer carried out the murder after being catfished online by Darin Schilmiller, a 21-year-old man from Indiana living in his grandparents’ basement. Schilmiller manipulated Brehmer and “solicited the murder of Hoffman from Brehmer in Anchorage.”
Brehmer roped in several friends to help, and in June 2019, they murdered 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman. The crime was recorded in photos and videos, which were sent to Schilmiller via Snapchat as proof. In 2023, Brehmer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Her accomplices, Kayden McIntosh and Caleb Leyland, were also charged in connection with the crime, the report said.
Fight over a boy, money led to murder
Now, appearing in the latest episode of Court TV’s ‘Interview With a Killer’, she revealed details of gruesome crime publically for the first time. She said she has admitted to the crime and is ready to “fully take responsibility”.
