She killed her ‘best friend’ after a man offered her $9 million online to do so. Five years later, she explains herself

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

It was a catfish game played both ways – and it ended fatally.

The story of convicted murderer Denali Brehmer takes center stage in the latest episode of Court TV’s Interview with a murdererfeaturing the first in-depth sit-down interview with the Alaska woman who shot and killed her friend while out for a hike after developing an online relationship with an Indiana man who convinced her he was rich and willing to give her $9 million pay to kill someone of her choice.

The new episode, titled “Catfishing for Murder,” airs at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, November 3 and features exclusive new interviews with Brehmer, now 23, and former FBI agent Brad Garrett, who helps host David Scott analyze the shocking thing.

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

Authorities say Brehmer committed the murder after Darin Schilmiller, a 21-year-old Indiana man living in his grandparents’ basement, caught her online and “requested the murder of Hoffman from Brehmer in Anchorage.”

But as Scott and Garrett learn through their own deep dive into the case, Brehmer “wasn’t a naive, unwitting victim of a bad online influence,” the Court TV host says in an exclusive new clip of the episode shared with PEOPLE this week shared.

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

In addition to Brehmer and Schilmiller, Alaska men Kayden McIntosh and Caleb Leyland were convicted of helping Brehmer carry out the murder, the Alaska Department of Law said. Both were convicted of second-degree murder.

Brehmer tells Scott in the new interview clip that Thunderbird Falls, where she, Leyland and McIntosh took Hoffman the day she was killed, was merely “a place of opportunity” for them to carry out the murder.

“At first, when we all figured it out, I agreed and said yes, because I was mad at her and she was mad at me and I was just over her,” Brehmer tells Scott, referring to an argument between couple. had about another man named Zack. “I wanted to make amends, I wanted to make it up to her, but she needed revenge for what she did to Zack.”

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Brehmer says the murder is “on me,” though she goes back and forth on whether she wanted to kill her former friend or just scare her.

Anchorage’s daily news reported The victim’s family said she had a learning disability and functioned at a younger developmental age than 19 years old. Hoffman’s father, Timothy Hoffman, told the newspaper that his daughter considered Brehmer her “best friend” after they met in high school.

Interview with a Killer: Catfishing for Murder, airs Sunday, November 3 at 8pm ET on CourtTV.