Alaska father dies throughout bike experience to honor daughter killed in weird murder-for-hire scheme

The daddy of a 19-year-old Alaska girl killed in a murder-for-hire scheme in 2019 died throughout a weekend memorial bike experience commemorating the fifth anniversary of her dying.

Timothy Hoffman, 58, misplaced management of his bike Sunday in an space west of Wasilla and was later pronounced useless at an area hospital, in accordance with Alaska State Troopers. His spouse, Barbara “Jeanie” Hoffman, was using on the again of the bike and significantly injured, Tanya Chaison, who’s engaged to Timothy Hoffman’s brother, informed the Anchorage Day by day Information.

The Hoffmans’ 19-year-old daughter, Cynthia Hoffman, was killed in a weird murder-for-hire plot involving Denali Brehmer, a girl Hoffman thought-about to be her greatest good friend. Prosecutors alleged Brehmer, then 18, began a web-based relationship with an Indiana man she believed to be a millionaire from Kansas, Darin Schilmiller. Authorities mentioned Schilmiller promised to pay Brehmer $9 million to kill somebody and ship him photographs and movies of it. Brehmer allegedly recruited 4 mates to kill Hoffman.

Court docket paperwork mentioned the group took Hoffman to Thunderbird Falls, a well-liked path space north of Anchorage, and adopted a path off-trail to the Eklutna River. Hoffman was sure with duct tape, shot and thrown into the river. Brehmer then texted Hoffman’s household saying the group dropped her off at an Anchorage park, officers mentioned.

After Brehmer’s arrest, and after she realized she had been tricked by Schilmiller, she informed authorities she had been solicited by him. She was sentenced earlier this 12 months to 99 years in jail. The 99-year sentence was the utmost penalty the court docket was permitted to impose, in accordance with a information launch from Alaska’s Division of Legislation.

Schilmiller of New Salisbury, Indiana, additionally obtained a 99-year sentence for his position in Hoffman’s dying. Schilmiller admitted to federal brokers and the Indiana State Police that he selected Hoffman because the sufferer and informed Brehmer to kill her, court docket paperwork mentioned.

Caleb Leyland, one other good friend concerned within the murder-for-hire scheme, pleaded responsible to at least one cost of second-degree homicide in November, after fees of first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide had been dismissed. His sentencing is scheduled for this month.

In accordance with the U.S. Justice Division, Schilmiller and Brehmer additionally conspired to coerce a minor to provide sexually express photographs. Final summer time, the 2 pleaded responsible to federal fees of conspiracy to provide little one porn.

Timothy Hoffman’s youngsters, together with Cynthia, skilled developmental disabilities, and he had described steps he took to make sure they had been secure, together with driving them to and from faculty and hourly telephone calls.

He was a fixture at court docket hearings within the case, usually carrying a black leather-based bike jacket and carrying his small assist canine, Diego. He spoke in latest hearings of the damage and devastation that Cynthia’s killing had induced his household.

“My daughter trusted these individuals,” he mentioned after his daughter’s homicide. “My daughter simply wished mates.”

Jeanie Hoffman had began discovering closure following her daughter’s dying, which was one of many causes she joined Timothy on a bike Sunday, mentioned his brother, Robert Hoffman. She beforehand adopted the memorial rides from one other automobile, he mentioned.

Patrick McKay, who was a lead prosecutor on a number of the legal circumstances associated to Cynthia Hoffman’s killing, known as Timothy Hoffman a “zealous advocate” for his daughter and mentioned his sudden dying was “nearly too unbelievable to be true.”

“I hope his household and mates take consolation in remembering that Tim died doing one thing he liked, with individuals he liked, in reminiscence of somebody he liked,” he mentioned.