New Jersey hairdresser allegedly met hitman on Tinder and paid him $500 to kill her ex and his teenage daughter

A New Jersey hairdresser is now facing serious federal charges after being indicted for her alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot. Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, stands accused of using her cell phone to coordinate the deaths of her former boyfriend, a Philadelphia Police officer named Matthew O’Hanlon, and his 19-year-old daughter. 

As reported by the NY Times, this development comes after a federal indictment was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case is moving to the federal level after local charges in Camden County were dismissed, meaning federal prosecutors will now handle the proceedings.

The entire situation started on the dating app Tinder, where Diiorio allegedly connected with a confidential informant. According to the Department of Justice, between March 31 and April 3, Diiorio and the informant exchanged a series of phone calls and text messages.

She reportedly hired someone else before

During these exchanges, she allegedly made it clear that she wanted her ex-boyfriend killed and even disclosed his profession as a police officer. Prosecutors noted that the two eventually met in person at a Wawa in Runnemede.

This wasn’t just a fleeting conversation, as the coordination continued into early April. Diiorio met with the informant again at a Dollar General location. During this meeting, she reportedly handed over $500 as a down payment for the hit. She also allegedly promised to pay a total of approximately $12,000 in installments to ensure the job was completed. 

The informant then decided to tip off Camden County detectives, who acted quickly to notify the Philadelphia Police Department and the intended targets. The Gloucester Township Police Department Special Response Team eventually arrested Diiorio. During the arrest, officers also discovered an unlabeled bottle of pills suspected to be alprazolam.

What makes this situation even more unsettling is the claim from prosecutors that this April plot was not her first attempt to organize these murders. Diiorio reportedly told the informant that she had previously been deceived by other individuals who provided her with “fake pictures” that were supposed to show a completed contract killing, as the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Diiorio is currently being held in federal custody, and a detention hearing is scheduled for at the US Magistrate Judge Scott W. Reid. Her attorney, Robert Gamburg, has stated that she intends to enter a not guilty plea. Before the case shifted to federal jurisdiction, Gamburg had filed a motion to have the initial Camden County charges dismissed. 

He argued that the prosecution relied on evidence obtained through entrapment. Gamburg described the informant as a rogue operator who was desperate for cash and regularly provided unsolicited tips to the sheriff’s department in exchange for money. 

He also claimed that the communications between the informant and Diiorio went unmonitored by detectives for several days before the arrest took place. If Diiorio is convicted on the two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in an attempt to commission a murder-for-hire, she reportedly faces a potential sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison.