A New Jersey woman allegedly recruited a Tinder match to carry out a murder-for-hire scheme targeting her former boyfriend—without knowing that the man was working as a confidential informant.
Jaclyn Diiorio has been indicted on two counts of using interstate commerce facilities to facilitate a murder-for-hire plot, according to a Sept. 9 U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania press release. Her attorney told the Philadelphia Inquirer that she will plead not guilty.
Diiorio, 28, worked as a hairdresser and met her former boyfriend—a 53-year-old Philadelphia police officer—while cutting his hair. They dated for about a year before ending their relationship on March 6, 2025.
Soon afterward, Diiorio matched with a man on Tinder who, unbeknownst to her, was also a confidential informant for Camden County, according to a probable cause statement obtained by CNN. Investigators said the two communicated by text and phone before meeting at a Wawa in Runnemede.
According to prosecutors, Diiorio told the informant she wanted her ex-boyfriend and his 19-year-old daughter killed. She allegedly offered him $12,000 to carry out the killings.
The pair met again on April 4, 2025, in the parking lot of a Dollar General store in Gloucester Township. Diiorio entered the informant’s white Honda Civic, asked to see his driver’s license and gave him $500, according to a probable cause statement obtained by NBC10. She was arrested afterward.
“Once money was exchanged,” Camden County Prosecutor Grace MacAulay said during a press conference that month, “we knew that charges were appropriate.”
Diiorio was initially charged with first-degree attempted murder, first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and third-degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance. The drug charge stemmed from an unlabeled bottle of alprazolam pills found in her possession, according to the warrant.
Those state charges were reportedly dismissed after the case moved to federal court.
Diiorio is scheduled to appear for a detention hearing on Sept. 14. If convicted, she could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
Her attorney did not immediately respond to Oxygen’s request for comment.
