Indiana man sentenced to 99 years in prison for 2019 Thunderbird Falls murder

Darin Schilmiller listens during testimony at the start of a three-day sentencing hearing on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, in Anchorage Superior Court. Schilmiller was sentenced Thursday to serve 99 years in prison for soliciting the murder of Cynthia Hoffman in 2019. to murder an Anchorage teenager in 2019 was sentenced Thursday to spend 99 years in prison — the maximum punishment for his crime.

Schilmiller was a master manipulator who got a rush from killing and did it “for power, for control, for your fetishes,” Peterson said. The group told Hoffman they were going to Thunderbird Falls for a hike on June 2, 2019, and bound her with duct tape and fatally shot her, dumping her body in the Eklutna River, according to investigators.

During his relationship with Brehmer, Schilmiller told her about his fetishes and urged her to act on them and send him photos or videos, an FBI agent said during this week’s hearing. Schilmiller was interested in child pornography, infants, raping and killing people, the agent said. Timothy Hoffman said he and his wife have been unable to sleep since their daughter died. Their other four children are devastated by the loss, he said.

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