'Best friend' sentenced for murdering teenager at behest of basement-dwelling catfisher who pretended to be millionaire

INFAMOUS CASE... Coming to an end as the perps are being sentenced.  

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Murder victim Cynthia “CeeCee” Hoffman, 19, believed that Denali Dakota Skye Brehmer, 23 was her best friend, but now, more than four years after she was bound in duct tape and shot to death near a waterfall, that so-called best friend received a virtual life sentence in an Alaska court for carrying out the heinous act.

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Brehmer and five other people were charged in connection to the incident, though two are being processed through the juvenile courts. One of the adult defendants, Darin Schilmiller, 25, posed online as a man named “Tyler,” offering Brehmer $9 million to kidnap and kill one of her friends and send photographic proof.

In actuality, however, “Tyler” was broke, unemployed, and living in his grandparents’ basement. He pleaded guilty to one count of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree, and also a federal charge of conspiracy to produce child pornography for asking Brehmer for child sexual abuse material. Peterson previously sentenced him to 99 years in prison with the possibility of parole after 45.

“This was intentional, premeditated murder-for-hire,” Peterson said at Schilmiller’s sentencing. “You plotted with other co-defendants to kill somebody you never met for no reason other than the sheer thrill of controlling others and seeing it be done.”

The judge added that Schilmiller intentionally caused Hoffman’s death “for power, for control, for your fetishes,” Anchorage Daily News reported.

Kayden McIntosh allegedly confessed to being the actual gunman. The case against him is set for trial. Caleb Leyland pleaded guilty to murder. Authorities said he lent McIntosh and Brehmer his car in exchange for $500,000. His sentence is set for June 10, 2024.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage woman has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for orchestrating the death of a developmentally disabled woman in a murder-for-hire plot, hoping to cash in on a $9 million offer from a Midwestern man purporting to be a millionaire.

“She may not have pulled the trigger, but this never would have happened it if it weren’t for Denali Brehmer,” Anchorage assistant district attorney Patrick McKay said during sentencing.
Peterson said Hoffman’s pre-mediated murder-for-hire was “tragic and senseless,” and that Brehmer showed no remorse. He said he hoped her sentence would serve as a deterrent to others.

Defense attorneys sought an 80-year sentence with 20 of those years suspended. Alaska does not have the death penalty.

Darin Schilmiller of New Salisbury, Indiana, was sentenced last month to 99 years in prison for his role in Hoffman’s murder.

Authorities in 2019 said Schilmiller posed online as “Tyler,” a millionaire from Kansas when starting an online relationship with Brehmer. About three weeks before Hoffman was killed, Brehmer and Schilmiller discussed a plan to rape and murder someone in Alaska, according to court documents.