NJ hairdresser charged by feds for allegedly hiring Tinder hitman to kill cop ex-boyfriend, his teen daughter
The New Jersey hairdresser accused of hiring a hitman she met on Tinder to murder her ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter was indicted Wednesday in connection with the contract killing plot.Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, faces two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in an attempt to commission a murder-for-hire, according to the Department of JusticeDiiorio used her cell phone and tried to pay a confidential informant to kill her ex-boyfriend — a Philadelphia Police officer, Matthew O’Hanlon — and his 19-year-old daughter, a federal indictment filed Sept.3 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleged.
Diiorio was arrested in Gloucester Township in April after she began communicating with a confidential informant to pull off the double murder.She met the fake hitman on Tinder and exchanged several phone calls and text messages from March 31 to April 3 — during which she allegedly said she wanted her ex-boyfriend dead and revealed he was a police officer, Camden County prosecutors said.Authorities said Diiorio and the phony hitman first met at a Wawa in Runnemede on March 31 after exchanging messages.Diiorio then met the informant again at a Dollar General on April 4 and handed over $500 as a down payment — promising to pay approximately $12,000 in installments to the phony hitman.However, the informant tipped off the Camden County detectives, who then contacted the Philadelphia Police Department to alert them and the intended target.Officers from the Gloucester Township Police Department Special Response Team arrested her and found an unlabeled bottle of pills suspected to be alprazolam.She 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 by Camden County.Federal prosecutors will handle Diiorio’s case after the county dismissed its charges following the federal indictment.Mo...