She killed her “best friend” after a man online offered her $9 million to do it. 5 years later she explains herself

Denali Bremer was sentenced to 99 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of Cynthia Hoffman.

It was a game of catfish played by both sides and it ended fatally.

The story of convicted Denali killer Bremer is the subject of Court TV’s latest episode. Interview with the killerfeaturing the first in-depth sit-down interview with the Alaska woman who shot and killed her friend while hiking after forming an online relationship with an Indiana man who convinced her he was rich and willing to pay her $9 million to kill the man. by her choice.

The new episode, titled “Hunt to Kill,” will air at 8:00 pm ET on Sunday, November 3, and features new exclusive interviews with Bremer, now 23, and former FBI agent Brad Garrett, who assists the host David Scott to analyze the shocking case. .

Bremer was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the 2019 murder of her friend Cynthia Hoffman, Alaska Department of Law. announced in February.

According to authorities, Bremer committed the murder after Darin Schilmiller, a 21-year-old Indiana man living in the basement of his grandparents’ home, surprised her online and “secured Hoffman’s murder from Bremer in Anchorage.”

But as Scott and Garrett learned from their own deep dive into the case, Bremer was not “a naive, unwitting victim of bad online influence,” the Court TV host says in an exclusive new clip from the episode shared with PEOPLE this week.

“It’s not clear to me who was the predator and who was the prey in this catfishing incident,” Scott says at one point in the new clip.

In addition to Bremer and Schilmiller, Alaska residents Kayden McIntosh and Caleb Leyland were convicted of helping Bremer commit the murder, the Alaska Department of Justice said. Both were convicted of second-degree murder.

Bremer tells Scott in a new interview excerpt that Thunderbird Falls, where she, Leyland and McIntosh took Hoffman camping on the day of her murder, was simply an “opportunity spot” for them to commit the murder.

“Initially when we came up with this whole thing, I agreed and said yes because I was mad at her and she was mad at me and I was just about her ass,” Bremer tells Scott, referring to the fight couples. was over another man named Zack. “I wanted to make amends, I really wanted to make amends, but she needed payback for what she did to Zack.”

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Bremer says the murder is “up to me,” although she hesitates whether she wanted to kill her ex-friend or just scare her.

Anchorage Daily News reported The victim’s family stated that she had learning disabilities and was functioning at an earlier age than 19 years old. Hoffman’s father, Timothy Hoffman, told the newspaper that his daughter considered Bremer her “best friend” after they met in high school.

Interview with the Killer: Catching a Murder, airs Sunday, November 3rd at 8:00 pm ET on CourtTV.