A 28-year-old Runnemede woman accused of trying to hire a Tinder acquaintance to kill her police-officer ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter is now facing federal charges. Jaclyn DiIorio was charged with two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in an attempt to commission murder-for-hire, according to an indictment filed Sept. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
How a Tinder Match Turned Into an Alleged Murder Plot
DiIorio is accused of targeting Philadelphia police officer Matthew O'Hanlon and his 19-year-old daughter, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. She first met O'Hanlon when she worked as his barber, and the two dated for about a year before their relationship ended roughly a month before the alleged plot, as reported by FOX 29 Philadelphia. DiIorio met the man she allegedly tried to hire as a hitman on Tinder, not realizing he was actually an informant working with Camden County detectives.
According to court documents cited by PhillyVoice, DiIorio and the informant met in person for the first time on March 31, 2025, at a Wawa in Runnemede, days after matching on Tinder. Their communications continued from March 30 through April 5 across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to the Inquirer. Prosecutors allege that DiIorio paid the informant $500 toward a proposed $12,000 fee and said other people had previously sent her fake photographs purporting to show that the killings had been carried out.
Arrest, Drug Charge, and a Rare Regional Case
DiIorio and the informant ultimately met at a Dollar General parking lot in Gloucester Township, where Camden County detectives — tipped off before the meeting took place — moved in. The Gloucester Township Police Special Response Team arrested her on April 4, 2025, and found her carrying a bottle of unprescribed alprazolam, resulting in an initial state drug possession charge, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. The operation involved the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, Gloucester Township Police, and the U.S. Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, the prosecutor's office said.
DiIorio was initially charged in April 2025 with attempted murder, conspiracy and related state offenses. She was working part-time as a hair colorist at Moxie Hair Salon in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, when she was arrested, FOX 29 reported.
Case Moves to Federal Court
Camden County prosecutors dropped their state case against DiIorio after the federal indictment was filed, per the Inquirer's report. The federal indictment identifies the intended victims only as Person #1 and Person #2. DiIorio used a cell phone to facilitate the interstate murder-for-hire plan, and federal courts can establish jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 1958 through even a single phone call or text sent across state lines, a mechanism that allows federal prosecutors to absorb what would otherwise be a state-level case, according to the Federal Lawyers Group. A conviction on the federal charges carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
DiIorio plans to plead not guilty. Her attorney, Robert Gamburg, has filed a motion alleging that Camden County prosecutors relied on information gathered through entrapment. Gamburg says the informant was desperate for money and repeatedly brought unsolicited information to the sheriff's department in exchange for payment. Defense filings cited by the Inquirer allege that the informant, a longtime paid operative for the Camden County Sheriff's Office, texted his handler, “I got a girl who wants her bf killed,” then worked without direct supervision for several days while communications with DiIorio went unmonitored.
Prior History Between DiIorio and O'Hanlon
The case also carries a history of prior friction between DiIorio and O'Hanlon. She filed a temporary restraining order against him in August 2024 that she later dropped, and O'Hanlon reported that his home was damaged in an uncharged Molotov cocktail attack the following month, according to the Inquirer.
New Jersey court and domestic-violence context
Official New Jersey sources provide broader context but do not establish that the allegations in this case fit a broader pattern. The New Jersey Courts Family Practice Division provides statewide family-law policies, directories, self-help forms and domestic-violence procedural guidance. A New Jersey Supreme Court committee report said 5,739 final restraining orders were granted statewide in 2014, while the New Jersey Domestic Violence Fatality-Near Fatality Review Board found that four of the 10 cases it reviewed in 2022 involved past or present restraining orders; the board cautioned that its selected cases were not randomly chosen and were not representative of all cases.
Camden County prosecutors have declined to comment on the entrapment allegations, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declined to comment on the indictment. DiIorio's detention hearing is scheduled for Monday, September 14, and will be presided over by Judge Scott W. Reid.
