Jaclyn D. Diiorio thought she was making a deal on Tinder. The 28-year-old hairstylist from South Jersey was looking for someone to kill her ex-boyfriend and his daughter. She offered $12,000 for the double hit. What she did not know was that the guy swiping back was talking to the police.
The trouble between Diiorio and her ex, a Philadelphia police officer named O’Hanlon, started shortly after their relationship fell apart in March 2025. The two had met when she was working as his barber. Things went south fast after the breakup, and investigators say Diiorio immediately began looking for a way to get rid of him and his teenage daughter.
It turns out this was not even her first try at setting up a hit. Reports from the investigation show Diiorio told her Tinder match that she had already been ripped off by scammers before. Other people had taken her money and sent fake pictures claiming the job was done, only for her to realize her ex was still alive and walking around.
Desperate to get it done right this time, she started texting and calling the informant. They set up a face-to-face meeting on March 31 in the parking lot of a Wawa convenience store in Runnemede, New Jersey. Underneath the bright lights of the local gas station, she laid out the plan to put an end to her ex and his daughter for twelve grand.
A few days later, on April 4, they met again. This time the location was a Dollar General parking lot down the road in Gloucester Township. Diiorio pulled out $500 in cash and handed it over as a down payment. She promised the remaining thousands would follow once both victims were dead.
But Camden County detectives and the Gloucester Township police were watching the whole exchange. The informant had already turned on his wire and alerted authorities days earlier. Detectives immediately warned Officer O’Hanlon and the Philadelphia Police Department about the threat. As soon as the cash changed hands, the Gloucester Township Police Department’s Special Response Team moved in and placed Diiorio in handcuffs.
When officers searched her during the arrest, they found a bottle of pills suspected to be alprazolam. State prosecutors initially charged her with attempted murder and conspiracy, but federal prosecutors later took over the case. Diiorio now sits in federal custody facing two counts of using interstate commerce facilities to arrange a murder-for-hire, carrying up to 20 years in prison. Her lawyer says she plans to plead not guilty and claims entrapment, but for now, she remains behind bars waiting for her day in court.
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