Denali Brehmer

An 18-year-old American teenager, Denali Brehmer has been charged with conspiring to murder her best friend after a man she met online offered her $9 million to commit the crime.

According to investigators, Brehmer who hails from Alaska was recruited to kill her friend, Cynthia Hoffman by a man identified as 21-year-old Darin Schilmiller from Indiana.

The pair had previously hooked up online, with Schilmiller assuming a fake identity and posing as a millionaire named ‘Tyler’.

Court documents say that during the course of their online relationship, they discussed a plan to rape and murder someone in Alaska. Schilmiller allegedly promised Brehmer $9 million or more to send him videos or photographs of the attack.

Brehmer then proceeded to recruit four other teens and the group settled on Hoffman — who considered Brehmer to be her best friend as their victim.

Authorities say on June 2, the 19-year-old Hoffman was lured to a hiking trail northeast of Anchorage where she was bound with duct tape and shot once in the back of the head before being pushed into a river. Her body was discovered two days later.

Police say the victim was driven to Thunderbird Falls by Brehmer and Kayden McIntosh, a 16-year-old boy under the guise of going on a riverside hike. McIntosh allegedly shot Hoffman with Brehmer’s gun and dumped her body in the water.

Brehmer reportedly communicated with Schilmiller throughout the murder, sending him Snapchat photographs and videos of Hoffman tied up and of the body afterward.

The trio have been arrested and charged in relation to the murder along with three others who have been accused of assisting Schilmiller in the planning or execution of the killing.

A grand jury had last week Friday indicted all six defendants for first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree and two counts of second-degree murder among other charges.

Police said that a search on Brehmer’s phone during their investigation into Hoffman’s death revealed videos of the teen sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl at Schilmiller’s behest.

Both Brehmer and Schilmiller face up to life in prison on  child pornography charges and up to 99 years in prison on each of the other murder-related charges.