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A 22-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her best friend after a man online promised to pay her $9 million for photos of the killing.

Denali Brehmer admitted in an Anchorage, Alaska courtroom on Wednesday to the first-degree murder of Cynthia 'CeeCee' Hoffman, 19, in 2019.

Hoffman was found dead with a gunshot wound to the back of her head and bound with duct tape after she went missing on the Thunderbird Falls hiking trail.

Prosecutors claimed Brehmer, who was 18-years-old at the time, was catfished by a 'millionaire' named 'Tyler' to murder someone in exchange for millions, according to KTUU.

Police later revealed the catfish to be Darin Schilmiller, then 21.

Denali Brehmer, 22, pleaded guilty to murdering her best friend after a man online promised to pay her $9 million for photos of the killing

Cynthia 'CeeCee' Hoffman, 19, was murdered in 2019. Hoffman was found dead with a gunshot wound to the back of her head and bound with duct tape after she went missing on the Thunderbird Falls hiking trail

On the day of Hoffman's disappearance, Brehmer told police that she and then 16-year-old Kayden McIntosh borrowed a friend's car and drove to the popular hiking trail with Hoffman on June 2. 

She told police they had planned to take photos of each other tied up and bound Hoffman's hands, feet and mouth with duct tape.

Brehmer said that at some point, McIntosh took a gun from her and shot Hoffman before pushing her into the river.

They then allegedly drove to a park, called Hoffman's family and said they were dropping her off at the park. Police said they went to another park and burned Hoffman's purse and other items, as well as the gun used in the shooting.

McIntosh was also charged with one count of murder. 

The third teenager charged with one count of murder was named as 19-year-old Caleb Leyland.  

Leyland confessed to police that he helped plan Hoffman's death and let his car to Brehmer to commit the killing, according to The Alaska Star.

The teens told police each of them was supposed to receive a share of Schilmiller's promised reward for their role in the killing. 

Meanwhile, Schilmiller was arrested in August 2019 and charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He is currently awaiting trial. 

Prosecutors claimed Brehmer, who was 18-years-old at the time, was catfished by a 'millionaire' named 'Tyler'. Police later identified the catfish to be Darin Schilmiller, then 21

Kayden McIntosh, then 16, and Caleb Leyland, then 19, are two of the other teenagers charged in Hoffman's death

Back in 2019, Hoffman's family said the victim had the mental age of a seventh grader and that she met Brehmer when they were both students at Service High School.

'All I know is that my daughter didn't deserve all this,' her father Timothy Hoffman said when he went to court to see the teenager's arraigned.

He said Cynthia had described Brehmer as her 'best friend'.

Cynthia had a developmental disability that caused his daughter to operate intellectually at about a seventh-grade level had made her vulnerable, her father said.

'She should have had the friends that she wanted. She shouldn't have had people that wanted to plot against her. And the ages of these people? I think it is sick. And now they don't have to live the nightmare that I have to live,' he said at the time.

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