Federal prosecutors are now involved in the case of a Camden County woman accused of trying to hire a hit man she met on the dating app Tinder to kill her police officer ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter.
Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, of Runnemede, was charged this month with two counts of using interstate commerce facilities — in her case, a cell phone — in an attempt to commission a murder-for-hire, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors will be tasked with prosecuting Diiorio after Camden County dropped its case against her in response to the charges.
It is the latest development in a story that captured national attention from true-crime enthusiasts and curious readers alike.
In April 2025, Diiorio was charged with two counts of attempted murder, conspiracy, and related crimes in the plot, which Camden County prosecutors said involved Diiorio trying to have both her ex-boyfriend, Philadelphia Police Officer Matthew O’Hanlon, and his 19-year-old daughter killed.
Prosecutors said Diiorio met the would-be hit man on Tinder. After days of exchanging messages and calls, they said, the two met in the parking lot of a Dollar General store in Gloucester Township, where Diiorio gave the man $500 of a proposed $12,000 payment before being swiftly arrested.
The hit man, prosecutors said, was actually an informant working with Camden County detectives who had tipped them off to Diiorio’s request days earlier.
It was not Diiorio’s first attempt at having O’Hanlon and his daughter killed, prosecutors said.
They alleged the New Jersey hairdresser told the informant she had previously been misled by others who had given her “fake pictures” of a supposed completed contract killing.
Prosecutors said the tumultuous relationship between Diiorio and O’Hanlon ended about a month before the murder-for-hire plot fizzled.
The federal indictment, filed Sept. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, offers few new details in the case.
It says Diiorio used a cell phone to facilitate an interstate plan to kill two individuals identified as Person #1 and Person #2.
Communications took place between March 30 and April 5, 2025, in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to the document.
Diiorio’s defense attorney, Robert Gamburg, said his client planned to plead not guilty to the charges during a detention hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott W. Reid on Monday.
Earlier this year, Gamburg sought to dismiss charges in Diiorio’s Camden County case when he filed a motion accusing prosecutors of relying on information that he said had been gathered by entrapment.
Gamburg said the informant who led police to Diiorio was desperate for money, and frequently brought unsolicited information to the sheriff’s department in exchange for cash.
The filing also describes the informant as a rogue operator, one whose phone and text conversations with Diiorio went unmonitored by detectives for days as they orchestrated her arrest.
County prosecutors declined to comment on the allegations at the time and said the matter would be resolved in court.
Reached by email Wednesday, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declined to comment on the indictment.
A conviction for using interstate commerce facilities to commission a murder-for-hire has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.