US woman gets 99 years for orchestrating catfished murder-for-hire plot in friend’s death

Brehmer stands at her arraignment in the Anchorage Correctional Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 9, 2019. Brehmer, 24, was sentenced earlier this week 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 US$9mil offer from a Midwestern man purporting to be a millionaire. — Anchorage Daily News via AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska: 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 US$9mil (RM43mil) offer from a Midwestern man purporting to be a millionaire.

Denali Dakota Skye Brehmer, 23, was sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson earlier this week in the 2019 death of her friend Cynthia Hoffman, whose death was captured in photos and video near Thunderbird Falls, a popular trail area just north of Anchorage. Brehmer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in February 2023.