An Alaska woman who killed her “best friend” after being catfished by a man who offered her $9 million for the murder was sentenced to prison Monday. She was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Denali Bremer, 24, previously pleaded guilty to murder in the 2023 death of Cynthia Hoffman, according to the Alaska Department of Justice.
“She executed Cynthia Hoffman in a murder-for-hire plot. She conspired with numerous people in and out of Alaska, including a young boy, to change everyone’s lives forever. She may not have pulled the trigger. No, but if he had pulled the trigger, this never would have happened.” It wasn’t for Denali Bremer,” prosecutor Patrick McKay Jr. said.
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Denali Bremer sits next to defense attorney Emily Cooper in an Alaska courtroom. Bremer was sentenced to 99 years in prison in 2019 for the murder of Cynthia Hoffman. (Alaska Department of Justice)
Hoffman’s body was discovered in the Eklutna River in Chugiak on June 2, 2019. Hoffman was shot to death and later found bound with duct tape. Authorities said Brehmer carried out the killings after meeting a man named “Tyler” online.
However, the man lied to Bremer, pretending to be a millionaire from Kansas, and offered Bremer $9 million for the recording. killing someone Although he was in Alaska, he was actually a 21-year-old Indiana man named Darin Schilmiller.
Bremer allegedly recruited four friends, including Kayden McIntosh, Caleb Leyland and two juveniles, to help carry out Hoffman’s murder. They lured Ms. Hoffman into thinking they were meeting on a hiking trip on the Thunderbird Falls Trail when she was murdered.
denali braemar (Bill Ross/Anchorage Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Brehmer sent photos and video footage of the killing to Schilmiller, authorities said. In January, Schilmiller was sentenced to 99 years in prison for his role in the killing. Prosecutors said he also asked Brehmer to film child pornography.
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The judge said Brehmer’s actions were “callous, calculated and thorough”. Although Brehmer was a minor at the time of her murder, the judge said she clearly knew what she was doing and her killing was not some form of murder. “The indiscretions of youth”
McIntosh’s case is still pending. Leyland has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 10. Two other suspects were charged in juvenile court for their alleged involvement in the incident, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
