‘Catfish Killer’ Denali Brehmer Speaks Out on Homicide of Greatest Pal In First Interview (Unique)

On the present, award-winning investigative reporter David Scott sits down with among the most infamous murderers within the U.S., a few of whom have by no means spoken with the media about their convictions.

Sunday’s new episode options Brehmer’s first interview concerning the brutal slaying of her then-alleged finest buddy, Cynthia Hoffman, 19. Brehmer was sentenced to 99 years in jail after pleading responsible to first-degree homicide for her involvement in Hoffman’s homicide in June 2019 in an Alaskan forest. On the time, a then-18-year-old Brehmer was allegedly catfished by Darin Schilmiller into murdering Hoffman for $9 million … that he did not have.

Schilmiller additionally admitted to blackmailing Brehmer into sexually assaulting minors, in line with Anchorage Day by day Information. In August 2024, Brehmer and Schilmiller have been sentenced to 30 years in jail for conspiring to “exploit a minor sufferer to provide sexually specific photographs,” in line with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace of Alaska, citing courtroom paperwork.

In TooFab’s unique clip from Sunday’s episode, Brehmer is grilled by Scott concerning her motive behind Hoffman’s homicide — with Scott arguing it was “premeditated,” whereas additionally accusing Brehmer of “not taking accountability” for her actions.

“Denali, in fact, there’s sympathy for a troubled teenage woman who suffers the sort of abuse that you simply did,” Scott stated. “However your crimes are so brutal, so wicked and premeditated that there is nothing that actually explains that alone, excuses them. Do you agree with that?”

“Yeah,” Brehmer admitted, whereas Scott stated the crime did not seem like “completed on impulse,” however reasonably “premeditated and deliberate and conniving.”

“Once more, the sheer brutality of it, it seems to be much less like a horrible mistake and extra like your true character,” he added. Brehmer — who appeared to have a quiet, reasonably reserved demeanor — instantly replied that the homicide was not a illustration of her “true character.”

“Was it then?” Scott requested, to which Brehmer stated, “Pushed to that time, it was once. That is, like, undoubtedly the worst I’ve ever been. My lowest level. That is my monstrous aspect.”

Nonetheless, Scott argued that Brehmer was doing a “truthful quantity of finger-pointing in direction of different individuals” throughout their dialog, which Brehmer additionally realized she was doing.

“It sort of contradicts the concept that you’re totally taking accountability. You are parsing, for instance, whether or not or not you’re the similar sort of assassin that [Kayden] McIntosh is as a result of he pulled the set off and also you did not,” Scott stated, referring to a different then-teenager who was accused of collaborating within the homicide.

“You are pointing the fingers at others who could have, you say, texted [Schilmiller], as you. You are denying the kid porn costs,” he continued. “You are denying making your youthful sibling a sufferer of that. You are doing a whole lot of not taking accountability.”

In response, Brehmer argued, “It is simply, like, the media received so much fallacious. The cops received so much fallacious. My co-defendants and I did so much fallacious. All of us did one thing actually f–ked up and I take accountability personally one hundred percent. It is simply, I am not keen to take accountability for theirs.”

In January 2024, Schilmiller was sentenced to 99 years in jail after beforehand pleading responsible to solicitation to commit homicide within the first diploma. Throughout sentencing, Choose Peterson referred to as the teenager’s “assassination” each “extraordinarily unhappy” and “stunning.” He additionally stated he believed Schilmiller would “at all times be a danger to the neighborhood” and orchestrated the homicide “for the mere thrill of it,” in addition to “for energy, for management, in your fetishes.”

These fetishes, in line with an FBI agent who testified in courtroom, included youngster pornography, infants, rape and homicide.

Hoffman was shot behind the top in June 2019, earlier than her physique was dumped in a river northeast of Anchorage.

In accordance with the Anchorage district legal professional’s workplace, the homicide plot started when Schilmiller met Denali Brehmer — then 18 — on-line. He stated he was a millionaire named Tyler and provided to offer her $9 million in change for proof she killed somebody. Schilmiller, nevertheless, was truly unemployed, broke and lived in his grandmother’s basement.

Brehmer then selected Hoffman because the sufferer, earlier than recruiting 4 different pals to assist her commit the heinous crime. Brehmer and Hoffman reportedly thought-about one another “finest pals”; Brehmer, in line with her household, was a “trusting younger grownup” with studying incapacity which reportedly “put her at a youthful developmental age than her 19 years.”

Per authorities, the group then talked Brehmer into occurring a mountain climbing journey with them, earlier than they certain her fingers, ft and mouth with duct tape and shot her … all whereas sending images and movies to Schilmiller.

In accordance with Anchorage Day by day Information, police have been put onto Brehmer’s path after she posted regarding images and movies to Snapchat and even informed some individuals she was concerned within the homicide. She then led police to Hoffman’s physique, whereas her telephone led them to Schilmiller. On her telephone, they discovered messages from Brehmer to Schilmiller, through which she was seen sexually assaulting minors.

As beforehand talked about, Brehmer was additionally sentenced to 99 years in jail with none suspended. When she was handed her sentence in February 2024, the State of Alaska gave her a “worst offender” discovering.

“The Courtroom ought to discover that Miss Brehmer engaged in some of the critical crimes that now we have in Alaska,” District Lawyer Patrick McKay stated on the time. “She executed Cynthia Hoffman in a murder-for-hire plot. She conspired with quite a few different people in and out of doors of Alaska, together with juveniles, without end altering everyone’s life. She could not have pulled the set off, however this by no means would have occurred it if it weren’t for Denali Brehmer.”

One other confederate, Caleb Leyland, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for his function in Hoffman’s homicide. In the meantime, Kayden McIntosh — who pleaded responsible to at least one rely of homicide within the second diploma — is ready to obtain his sentencing later this month.