Investigators in Alaska have pieced together the tragic murder of 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman. The young woman was murdered by five other teenagers after one of them, 18-year-old Denali Brehmer, was allegedly offered millions of dollars for photos of the killing by a 21-year-old man in Indiana who was pretending to be a millionaire.
It all started when Brehmer met “Tyler” (real name, Darin Schilmiller) online and began a relationship. Tyler said he was from Kansas, but he was actually from New Salisbury, Indiana, and sent Brehmer a photograph of another man claiming it was him. Schilmiller looked nothing like the young man in the photo. Tyler claimed to be a millionaire, but he was not. This is known as “catfishing.”
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