Murdered by Her Friend for a Catfisher

Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction
4 min readApr 30, 2024

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If a self-claimed millionaire you only met online asked you to kill someone so they could watch, would you?

On June 2, 2019, Cynthia Hoffman, 19, would die, scared and confused in the woods. Her killers were her best friend Denali Brehmer, 18, and 16-year-old Kayden McIntosh. The basic facts of this story are sad and heartbreaking. But, when you add in that this was all orchestrated by a man pulling a catfishing scheme elsewhere in the country, it turns into a sick and twisted game played by everyone but Cynthia Hoffman.

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Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction

True Crime Writer in Las Vegas. I used to be a Web Developer in the Newsroom, now I spend my time in coffee shops researching murder.