He claimed to be a millionaire but was actually a 21-year-old kid from Indiana. He has also been accused of murder.
This fits into the "morally bankrupt" department.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/17/cynthia-hoffman-murder-friends-million-catfished/?utm_term=.924b5ba7f1e3&wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1
Authorities said Friday that Brehmer, 18, orchestrated the murder and recruited four friends to help her, thinking that a man who she met on the Internet would pay her $9 million or more for filming it. While officials haven't said why Cynthia, who went by "CeeCee," was targeted, her family told the Daily News that she had a developmental disability that caused her to operate intellectually at a seventh-grade level, and likely made her vulnerable.
According to court documents obtained by the Daily News, Brehmer had formed an online relationship with a man who called himself "Tyler," and claimed to be from Kansas. He had convinced her that he was a millionaire, and offered to pay her $9 million or more to "rape and murder someone in Alaska," then send him videos and photographs.
Brehmer agreed to the arrangement, court documents say. She allegedly recruited four of her friends to help her, offering them a cut of the money if they helped orchestrate and carry out the murder.
On June 2, Brehmer and 16-year-old Kayden McIntosh borrowed a friend's car to pick up Cynthia and drove with her to the northern outskirts of Anchorage, claiming that they were going to go hiking, authorities allege. They brought the 19-year-old to the Thunderbird Falls trail, a popular hiking path that cuts through a mile of birch forest before reaching a spectacular 200-foot waterfall. But instead of heading for the falls, they abandoned the trail and followed another path that ran alongside the Eklutna River, walking until they found an isolated clearing.
The teenagers bound Cynthia's hands, feet and mouth with duct tape, according to prosecutors. Once she was restrained, McIntosh allegedly took Brehmer's 9mm handgun and shot her in the back of the head. They left her body in the river.
"I'm sorry everybody, my family, my friends," Brehmer reportedly said in a video that she posted on Snapchat afterward. "I guess you will hear from me when you hear from me, but I won't be back for a long time. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it."
It wasn't until later that Brehmer learned that she had been catfished, prosecutors say. All along, she had been sending photos and videos to "Tyler," not knowing that his name was actually Darin Schilmiller a 21-year-old who lived in Indiana instead of Kansas, looked nothing like the photo he had sent her online and wasn't a millionaire. When first questioned by police on June 6, two days after Cynthia's body was found, Brehmer allegedly claimed that the three teenagers Cynthia, McIntosh and herself had gone to Thunderbird Falls to take pictures of each other wrapped in duct tape. She said that she had no idea that McIntosh planned to shoot the 19-year-old.
Further investigation yielded a stomach-churning discovery. Police got a search warrant for Brehmer's iPhone, and found child pornography "in plain view," court records obtained by Alaska Public Media said. In a text message conversation with Schilmiller, who was identified as "Babe" in her contact list, she had detailed her plans to sexually assault a teenage girl and film it for him.
"Gonna go buy weed first," Brehmer wrote, according to court documents. "I wanna get her high for it so she doesn't fight me."
Later in the conversation, Schilmiller allegedly told Brehmer that he wished he had never "made a deal" with her in the first place. "[W]e can meet but once I see a cop I'm telling him or her that I made you rape people and killed cece," he wrote, apparently referencing Cynthia's nickname.
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This fits into the "morally bankrupt" department.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/17/cynthia-hoffman-murder-friends-million-catfished/?utm_term=.924b5ba7f1e3&wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1
Authorities said Friday that Brehmer, 18, orchestrated the murder and recruited four friends to help her, thinking that a man who she met on the Internet would pay her $9 million or more for filming it. While officials haven't said why Cynthia, who went by "CeeCee," was targeted, her family told the Daily News that she had a developmental disability that caused her to operate intellectually at a seventh-grade level, and likely made her vulnerable.
According to court documents obtained by the Daily News, Brehmer had formed an online relationship with a man who called himself "Tyler," and claimed to be from Kansas. He had convinced her that he was a millionaire, and offered to pay her $9 million or more to "rape and murder someone in Alaska," then send him videos and photographs.
Brehmer agreed to the arrangement, court documents say. She allegedly recruited four of her friends to help her, offering them a cut of the money if they helped orchestrate and carry out the murder.
On June 2, Brehmer and 16-year-old Kayden McIntosh borrowed a friend's car to pick up Cynthia and drove with her to the northern outskirts of Anchorage, claiming that they were going to go hiking, authorities allege. They brought the 19-year-old to the Thunderbird Falls trail, a popular hiking path that cuts through a mile of birch forest before reaching a spectacular 200-foot waterfall. But instead of heading for the falls, they abandoned the trail and followed another path that ran alongside the Eklutna River, walking until they found an isolated clearing.
The teenagers bound Cynthia's hands, feet and mouth with duct tape, according to prosecutors. Once she was restrained, McIntosh allegedly took Brehmer's 9mm handgun and shot her in the back of the head. They left her body in the river.
"I'm sorry everybody, my family, my friends," Brehmer reportedly said in a video that she posted on Snapchat afterward. "I guess you will hear from me when you hear from me, but I won't be back for a long time. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it."
It wasn't until later that Brehmer learned that she had been catfished, prosecutors say. All along, she had been sending photos and videos to "Tyler," not knowing that his name was actually Darin Schilmiller a 21-year-old who lived in Indiana instead of Kansas, looked nothing like the photo he had sent her online and wasn't a millionaire. When first questioned by police on June 6, two days after Cynthia's body was found, Brehmer allegedly claimed that the three teenagers Cynthia, McIntosh and herself had gone to Thunderbird Falls to take pictures of each other wrapped in duct tape. She said that she had no idea that McIntosh planned to shoot the 19-year-old.
Further investigation yielded a stomach-churning discovery. Police got a search warrant for Brehmer's iPhone, and found child pornography "in plain view," court records obtained by Alaska Public Media said. In a text message conversation with Schilmiller, who was identified as "Babe" in her contact list, she had detailed her plans to sexually assault a teenage girl and film it for him.
"Gonna go buy weed first," Brehmer wrote, according to court documents. "I wanna get her high for it so she doesn't fight me."
Later in the conversation, Schilmiller allegedly told Brehmer that he wished he had never "made a deal" with her in the first place. "[W]e can meet but once I see a cop I'm telling him or her that I made you rape people and killed cece," he wrote, apparently referencing Cynthia's nickname.
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