A WOMAN allegedly tried to hire a hitman she met on Tinder to murder her cop ex-boyfriend and his teen daughter in a chilling £9,000 plot.
Hairdresser Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, is accused of offering cash to have Philadelphia Police officer Matthew O’Hanlon and his 19-year-old daughter killed.
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But the alleged murder scheme spectacularly unravelled after the supposed assassin turned out to be a confidential informant who tipped off detectives.
Diiorio was indicted on Wednesday on two federal counts of using interstate commerce facilities in an attempt to commission a murder-for-hire.
Prosecutors claim she used her mobile phone to arrange the brutal double killing before trying to pay the informant to carry it out.
The twisted plot allegedly began after Diiorio met the supposed hitman on dating app Tinder.
The pair exchanged a string of phone calls and messages between March 31 and April 3, Camden County prosecutors said.
During those conversions, Diiorhio allegedly declared that she wanted her former boyfriend dead and revealed that he was a police officer.
Authorities said the pair then met face-to-face at a Wawa, an American convenience store in Runnemede, on March 31 after swapping messages.
Diiorio allegedly met the informant again at a Dollar General on April 4, where she handed him $500 as a down payment on the supposed hit.
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It is understood that she promised to cough up around $12,000 – roughly £9,000 – in instalments for the killings.
But the sinister deal was already doomed after the informant alerted Camden County detectives to the alleged plot.
Investigators then contacted the Philadelphia Police Department to warn officers and the intended target.
Diiorio was arrested in Gloucester Township in April by officers from the Gloucester Township Police Department Special Response Team.
Cops said they discovered an unlabelled bottle of pills suspected to contain alprazolam during the bust.
She was initially hit 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.
Those charges were later dismissed after federal prosecutors swooped in to take over the case.
And prosecutors claim the Tinder plot was not Diiorio’s first attempt to have her ex and his daughter killed.
She allegedly told the informant that others had previously duped her with “fake pictures” purporting to show that a contract killing had been carried out.
Diiorio and O’Hanlon’s relationship had ended around a month before she reportedly set the murder-for-hire scheme in motion.
She is now being held in federal custody ahead of a detention hearing scheduled for Monday before US Magistrate Judge Scott W. Reid.
Her lawyer Robert Gamburg has said she will plead not guilty.
Before the federal indictment, Gamburg launched a bid to have the Camden County charges thrown out and argued prosecutors had relied on evidence obtained through entrapment.
He accused the informant of being a rogue operator desperate for cash who regularly handed unsolicited tips to the sheriff’s department for money.
Gamburg also argued the informant’s communications with Diiorio went unmonitored by detectives for days in the run-up to her arrest.
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Diiorio could face up to 20 years behind bars if convicted.
The Sun has reached out to Tinder for comment.