Photo: Camden County Prosecutor's Office of New Jersey
A New Jersey woman is accused of hiring a hitman she met on the dating app Tinder to kill her police officer ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter for $12,000.
Jaclyn Diiorio, 26, of Runnemede, was charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder, one count of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and one count of third-degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office of New Jersey announced in a post shared on its Facebook account Wednesday (April 8). Diiorio was arrested after communicating with a confidential informant.
The 26-year-old offered the man she believed to be a hitman $12,000 to kill her 53-year-old ex-boyfriend, who was identified as an officer with the Philadelphia Police Department, and his 19-year-old daughter, after meeting the informant on Tinder, a Camden County criminal complaint/affidavit obtained by NBC Philadelphia states.
Diiorio and the man exchanged messages and agreed to meet at a Wawa gas station in Runnemede on March 31. The two exchanged several phone calls and text messages between March 31 and April 3, at which point she expressed wanting to have her ex-boyfriend killed and acknowledging that he is a police officer.
The informant reported the murder-for-hire plot to the county prosecutor, who had detectives contact Philadelphia Police to notify the department and the target of the alleged plot on April 3. Diiorio reportedly met with the informant at a Dollar General store on April 4, at which point she allegedly gave him $500 in cash as a down payment and promised to pay the rest in installments.
Officers from the Gloucester Township Police Department Special Response Team then swarmed Diiorio and she was arrested at the scene. Police found an unlabeled bottle of pills suspected to be alprazolam with Diiorio at the time of her arrest.
Diiorio is currently being held at the Camden County Correctional Facility and is scheduled for a detention hearing at Camden County Superior Court on Wednesday (April 9). A first-degree attempted murder conviction carries a sentence of 10 to 20 years in the state penitentiary in adherence with New Jersey state laws.