A New Jersey woman was charged in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire scheme in which she searched for someone to kill her former police officer boyfriend and his daughter. Unfortunately for her, the man she found on Tinder to do her dirty work was working undercover with investigators.
New Jersey Murder-For-Hire
It has been over a year since the alleged encounter between Jaclyn D. Diiorio, 28, of Runnemede, New Jersey, and the fake Tinder man she planned to hire to commit double murder. She was recently slapped with two federal counts related to allegedly arranging murders-for-hire in connection with the crime.
Investigators’ case began to unfold in March 2025 when Diiorio allegedly connected with an informant on the hook-up dating site Tinder. After they matched, they met in person at a nearby Wawa in Runnemede, New Jersey, on March 31, 2025.
The two allegedly exchanged many texts and phone calls over the next few days, during which Diiorio explained what she wanted him to do. She allegedly stated she would like her former 53-year-old Philadelphia police officer killed, along with his 19-year-old daughter. She allegedly offered the Tinder informant around $12,000 to get the job done.
On April 3, 2025, the county prosecutor’s major crimes unit was informed of the murder-for-hire scheme, and a Camden County detective contacted the Philadelphia police to confirm one of their officers was a target.
New Jersey investigators interviewed the Philly officer on April 4, and he confirmed the selfie that Diiorio, who was going by ‘D’ with the Tinder informant, sent on the app was in fact his ex-girlfriend. He explained the two met because she was his barber, but they broke up in early March that year.
The Philly officer told detectives that Diiorio filed a temporary restraining order against him in the summer of 2024, but it was dropped. He also mentioned that “his home was vandalized by a Molotov cocktail in September 2022,” according to a probable cause affidavit.
Alleged Payment For Murder
While the Philly officer met with New Jersey detectives on April 4, the informant told other detectives about his conversations with Diiorio over the last few days and said they planned a meet-up later that day. “The informant advised that Diiorio has been adamant about killing her ex-boyfriend,” the probable cause affidavit said.
That same evening, Diiorio also met with the informant again, this time in a Dollar General parking lot in Gloucester Township, Philadelphia. The informant got into the defendant’s white Honda Civic around 6:45 p.m. She allegedly demanded his driver’s license to confirm his identity and then paid him $500 cash as a deposit to ensure the killings would happen.
Arrest and Charges
Police arrested Diiorio shortly after the exchange on April 4, and while doing so, they found a bottle of alprazolam pills with the label torn off.
Diiorio 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. If convicted, she faces a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors announced the charges in a statement on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, against the defendant in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey. Diiorio appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott W. Reid that day and will be held in federal custody until her detention hearing on September 14.
In addition to the criminal charges, the federal indictment also includes the use of, and causing another to use, interstate commerce, such as a cell phone, to facilitate and carry out the murders of two individuals, and a notice seeking forfeiture of property allegedly used to facilitate the offenses, including the $500 cash deposit.
