The Catfish Killer: How a Snapchat Romance Led to Murder
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
You know that feeling when you hear a story that makes you want to immediately check your teenager's phone? This is one of those episodes. We're talking about nineteen-year-old Denali Brehmer, who fell for a guy on Snapchat who promised her nine million dollars to kill her best friend. And before you roll your eyes and think "teenagers are so gullible," let me tell you about the web of trauma, desperation, and manipulation that led to this tragedy.
This case has everything that makes our modern world terrifying. A fake online boyfriend, a murder-for-hire plot, and a group of teenagers who thought they could get away with the perfect crime. But at the center of it all is CeeCee Hoffman, a nineteen-year-old with autism who was working hard to build an independent life, and whose biggest mistake was trusting the wrong friend.
What happens when social media becomes a hunting ground? When someone's entire sense of reality gets warped by an online relationship? And how do you recruit four other teenagers to help you kill your best friend? We're diving deep into the psychology, the manipulation, and the heartbreaking chain of events that led to CeeCee's death on the banks of an Alaska river.
This isn't about judging teenagers for being naive. It's about understanding how desperation, trauma, and the false promises of strangers can turn ordinary people into killers. And it's about remembering that behind every viral true crime story is a real person who deserved so much better.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that feeling when you hear a story that makes you want to immediately check your |
| 0:04.3 | teenager's phone. This is one of those episodes. We're talking about 19-year-old Donali Bremer, |
| 0:10.7 | who fell for a guy on Snapchat, promising her $9 million to kill her best friend. What happens |
| 0:17.2 | when social media becomes a hunting ground and someone's entire sense of reality gets warped by an online relationship? This case has everything that makes our modern world terrifying. And at the center of it all is C.C. Hoffman, whose biggest mistake was trusting the wrong friend. The President You know how people always say, don't believe everything you see on the internet. Well, 19-year-old |
| 1:00.5 | Denali Bremer probably should have listened to that advice, because the handsome millionaire she fell |
| 1:05.5 | for on Snapchat turned out to be neither handsome nor a millionaire, and by the time she figured it out, |
| 1:11.6 | her best friend was dead. This is one of those stories that makes you wonder how we got here |
| 1:16.8 | as a society. Like, at what point did we decide anonymous strangers online were more trustworthy |
| 1:22.8 | than the people actually sitting next to us? But I'm getting ahead of myself. Denali Dakota Sky |
| 1:30.4 | Brimmer was born in 2001 in Anchorage, Alaska. Right off the bat, her life was complicated. |
| 1:37.2 | She was the third of five daughters in a household that was basically a master class in dysfunction. |
| 1:43.0 | Her mother cycled through boyfriends like most people |
| 1:45.4 | cycle through Netflix shows, and none of these relationships were what you would call healthy. |
| 1:51.3 | All the children were in and out of foster care throughout their young lives, which is already |
| 1:55.9 | heartbreaking enough. But then something happened that would change everything permanently. |
| 2:01.7 | One of her mother's boyfriends was charged with killing Denali's two-month-old baby sister. Think about that for a second, |
| 2:08.6 | a baby, two months old. After that tragedy, all the surviving Bremmer children were adopted into |
| 2:14.4 | different families. The system was trying to give them better lives, |
| 2:17.6 | and in many ways it worked. But some kinds of damage run deep, and they don't heal easily. |
| 2:23.9 | Fast forward to 2019. Denali was 18, trying to figure her life out like most teenagers do. |
| 2:31.3 | That's when she met Tyler on Snapchat, and Tyler seemed too good to be true, |
| 2:36.2 | which should have been the first red flag. He was 21, supposedly gorgeous, and had won millions of |
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