A New Jersey woman is facing federal charges in connection with an unsuccessful plot to have her ex-boyfriend, a Philadelphia police officer, and his daughter killed, authorities said.
The federal case against Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, comes after she was arrested in 2025 on state charges, including two counts of first-degree attempted murder, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.
The office learned in April 2025 that Diiorio allegedly wanted her 53-year-old ex and his 19-year-old daughter dead.
Diiorio is accused of offering a man, whom she hoped would serve as a potential hitman, $12,000 in exchange for killing the father and daughter, per The Philadelphia Inquirer. She reportedly met the man on Tinder.
What Diiorio didn’t know was that the Tinder user was actually a confidential informant working with law enforcement, prosecutors said.
She met with the informant in Gloucester Township on April 4, 2025, when she allegedly paid him a $500 cash down payment in connection with the scheme, according to officials.
After paying the informant, she was arrested.
Now, a federal indictment filed more than a year later charges Diiorio with two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced in a Wednesday, September 9, news release.
Now that the Justice Department is involved, Camden County is no longer pursuing the state case against her, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Diiorio is represented by attorney Robert Gamburg, who told the newspaper that she intends to plead not guilty when she appears in federal court for a detention hearing.
She’s being detained ahead of that hearing, which is scheduled for September 14.
The Philadelphia police officer Diiorio previously dated, and later allegedly targeted, was her former client, per WTXF-TV. She reportedly had been his hairdresser before they started dating.
Their relationship ended in early March of 2025, according to the TV station.
Later that month, Diiorio began using a phone to orchestrate the plot to have her ex and his daughter killed, according to federal prosecutors.
“The indictment alleges that, from about March 30, 2025, to about April 5, 2025, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey, Diiorio used and caused another to use a facility of interstate commerce, that is, a cellular phone, with intent that the murders of Person #1 and Person #2 be committed, in exchange for money,” federal prosecutors said.
If Diiorio is convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison.
