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Alaska woman pleads guilty to killing 'best friend' after man catfished her and offered to pay $9 million for murder videos
NBC News via MSN ^ | 2/18/2023 | Minnyvonne Burke

Posted on 02/18/2023 7:06:38 PM PST by Saije

An Alaska woman pleaded guilty to killing her "best friend" after a man she met online said he would pay her $9 million if she sent him photos and videos of her committing murder.

Denali Brehmer, 22, pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder in the June 2019 death of Cynthia Hoffman, the Alaska Department of Law said.

Hoffman, 19, died from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Her body was dumped in the Eklutna River, about 27 miles northeast of Anchorage, court documents state.

The Anchorage District Attorney’s Office previously said that Brehmer, who was 18 at the time of the crime, started planning the murder after a man she met online told her that he would give her money in exchange for evidence of her killing someone.

Brehmer knew the man as "Tyler" and had begun a relationship with him, but authorities said he had catfished her and created a fake persona as a millionaire from Kansas. His real name is Darin Schilmiller from Indiana, authorities said.

Court documents state that Brehmer and Schilmiller started planning several crimes in exchange for money, including the "rape and murder of someone in Alaska."

Brehmer chose Hoffman as the victim and recruited four friends —Kayden McIntosh, Caleb Leyland, and two other unnamed juveniles — to help her, according to authorities. Brehmer told them they would get "substantial shares of money" for helping her kill Hoffman.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: 2timothy3verses1to7; alaska; ansel12whiner; catfishing; crime; daniel12verse10; matthew24verse22; murder; periloustimes
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To: Saije

My comment was not aimed at you. Please don’t take it as a personal reprimand. It’s not. My remark was aimed at the original writer, whoever or whatever system that came from.


21 posted on 02/18/2023 7:35:53 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

This girl lived in a trailer down by the crik?


22 posted on 02/18/2023 7:37:02 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: lee martell

Ok, thanks. Sorry if it came off snarky, I was thinking catfishing was just shorthand for a certain type of online predator behavior but whether it really applies to this guy I’m not sure about that!


23 posted on 02/18/2023 7:46:06 PM PST by Saije
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To: Round Earther

LOL, it took me about 5 minutes. I was thinking she had actually changed her name when I first read your comment, like Reality Winner did.


24 posted on 02/18/2023 7:47:37 PM PST by Saije
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To: lee martell

“Don’t say ‘catfished’, just say he used a fake persona.
That type of jargon only makes reading more tedious, in an effort to sound ‘Cool’. Same thing with ‘gaslighting’.
Just say what you mean.”

Amen. The terms these “joyrnalists” use are tedious and sophomoric.


25 posted on 02/18/2023 8:03:29 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: lee martell
Good advice for everyone.

26 posted on 02/18/2023 8:04:23 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Saije

I hope the catfisher was also charged with murder.


27 posted on 02/18/2023 8:16:18 PM PST by xxqqzz
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To: Saije

28 posted on 02/18/2023 8:50:47 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1 ( )
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To: lee martell

“Just say what you mean.”

How very un-millennial of you.

Agree 100%.
So much of current speak is meaningless to me.


29 posted on 02/18/2023 8:54:58 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Saije

“He chose poorly.”


30 posted on 02/18/2023 8:56:42 PM PST by The Duke (Never Retreat, Never Surrender!)
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To: Saije

“Just for clicks”. Some “best friend”! How has our society fallen so far so quickly?

A lack of God in people’s lives? A lack of knowledge (which brings you to God)? No respect for the human life due to abortion being a religion for the left? Being constantly told you are a victim, or in the alternative, an oppressor of others? A lack of hope for the future?

I suggest it is all of the above. When you have the President of the United States telling the people of the nation that to this day, white people enjoy watching lynchings of black people based on no evidence whatsoever other than his own racist past, you are looking at a nation that will not recover from his deliberate destruction without a major upheaval. Biden and his handler’s continued hate narrative and their actions will tear this country apart.


31 posted on 02/18/2023 9:13:32 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Saije

Drugs drugs drugs. Drugs helps people do horrible, evil things. They should all be shot and be done with. These people have zero value to society and never will. Make peace with our Maker and call it done.


32 posted on 02/18/2023 9:15:34 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Saije

“Depravity” is right. We’re cranking out soulless young people by the boatload


33 posted on 02/18/2023 10:14:46 PM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: CFW

I’ve come to the conclusion that God’s plan for the world advances along from a combination of organic and manufactured events.

And that, ultimately, what’s been going on for the last 150 years, is that the industrial revolution gave some economic and political power to the masses, and the old aristocracy have been trying to figure out a way to get all their power back ever since.

So the inventions of Edison, Ford, etc, which ignited the modern era, were organic events.

On the other hand, the effort to promote the idea that modern technology and science have rendered religion obsolete....and only backwards, ignorant, bigoted people still embrace religion, is an example of how these organic changes in society are then manipulated by the wealthy and powerful, to advance their freedom crushing agenda.

You can go down the list decade by decade...... Attacking the nuclear family leads to less family owned small businesses, which are the life blood of an independent middle class.

And while the attack on the nuclear family has been manipulated by the ruling class...by promoting premarital sex, feminism, homosexuality, etc, while attacking religion.....there’s also the organic event of rock n roll, sexual dancing, psychedelic drugs, birth control pills....which made it easier for the ruling class to push the sexual revolution.

So basically, the wealthy and the powerful sit in their walled mansions and assess organic events that are unfolding, and then make meticulous long term plans to manipulate these events.

The reason that everything is so awful now, is because they have gotten that much closer to reaching their goals. And if we look back from the 1960s to today, it was a long way down.

And when digital technology came along, you can be sure the ruling class were licking their chops over it’s potential to create a totalitarian surveillance State, which also brought out the worst in human nature, via snitch culture, and the vain desire for 15 minutes of fame.


34 posted on 02/18/2023 10:18:24 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: The Fop

That is very interesting theory and I suspect it is true. If you read the Bible and then follow history of man-kind since its writing, you can see the ebb and flow of decadence and then a total adherence to morality and obedience to God (both historically done by government dictates). However, with each wave the separation between the two become wider and wider apart.


35 posted on 02/18/2023 10:25:57 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Saije

You did it exactly right. Ignore the whiners.


36 posted on 02/18/2023 10:41:19 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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This Indiana “catfish” should be charged with murder and exposed to the full sentence that applies in Alaska, have to imagine it’s not a slap on the fins up there.

25 to life might make the next douchebag think twice about leading low-IQ suggestible morons down this sort of path.

I think I know what catfish means but gaslighting keeps confusing me, it’s not good, right? I mean if I gaslight you, then I have done what exactly? Made you look bad? Ascribed a false motive to your behavior? Then there’s intersectionality. I wish some catfish would gaslight intersectionality.


37 posted on 02/18/2023 11:22:04 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (We will never be safe until every last balloon is shot down, oops not that one, oh well)
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To: Saije

Who is Darin Schilmiller and why is he part of this murder investigation?

Pic at link..

https://mustreadalaska.com/who-is-darin-schilmiller-murder-investigation/


38 posted on 02/19/2023 4:07:24 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Saije

Put Denali Brehmer in a cell with Darin Schilmiller. They deserve each other.


39 posted on 02/19/2023 4:10:09 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Peter ODonnell
What Is Gaslighting?
40 posted on 02/19/2023 6:15:18 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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