Caleb Leyland helped plan the 2019 murder of Cynthia Hoffman and let another teen considered the ringleader borrow his car to carry out the act, prosecutors said.
Caleb Leyland, 19 at the time, at his arraignment in Anchorage Superior Court on Tuesday, June 18, 2019. to second-degree murder in November. Charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Prosecutors also agreed to not pursue unrelated charges of sexual abuse of a minor against Leyland, according to a sentencing memorandum filed by Assistant District Attorney Patrick McKay.
Brehmer, 18 at the time the murder occurred, was in an online relationship with Schilmiller, who posed as a handsome millionaire but was really a 21-year-old living in Indiana, according to charges in the case. Schilmiller told Brehmer he would pay her $9 million to kill someone and send him photos and videos of it, authorities have said.
Brehmer recruited four friends, including Leyland, Kayden McIntosh and two minors, to help her kill Hoffman at Thunderbird Falls in June 2019. Hoffman had a developmental disability and described Brehmer as her best friend, her family has said. Leyland helped plan the murder and let Brehmer borrow his car to carry out the act, the sentencing memorandum said. He was supposed to receive money after Hoffman was killed, it said.
McKay asked that Leyland be sentenced to 50 years in prison. His attorney, assistant public advocate Dina Marie Cale, requested he be sentenced to 25 years in prison. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson on Friday sentenced Leyland to 30 years in prison.Friday’s hearing was the first in the case without Hoffman’s father in the courtroom advocating for maximum sentences for any defendants. Timothy Hoffman died in June after apleaded guilty to second-degree murder in May.
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