A South Jersey woman tried to hire a hit man to kill a Philly cop and his daughter, authorities say

A Camden County woman tried to have her former boyfriend — a Philadelphia police officer — killed, along with his teenage daughter, in a murder-for-hire plot that was ultimately foiled, authorities said Tuesday.

Jaclyn Diiorio, 26, of Runnemede, was charged with two counts of attempted murder, conspiracy, and related crimes in connection with the scheme to kill her 53-year-old ex, whom authorities did not identify, and his 19-year-old daughter, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Gloucester Township Police Chief David Harkins said in a joint statement.

The prosecutor’s office was tipped off to the plan last week by the person Diioro had tried to hire, authorities said.

The man, whom authorities did not identify, began communicating with Diiorio over the dating app Tinder and then met her in person at a Wawa in Runnemede on March 31, according to the probable cause affidavit for her arrest.

Over the next several days, Diiorio told the man she wanted to have her ex and his daughter killed and would be willing to pay thousands to get it done, the affidavit said. She offered him $12,000 to carry out the crime and arranged to meet him at a Dollar General store in Gloucester Township to give him a $500 down payment, according to the document.

Around 6:45 p.m. Friday, authorities said, the two met outside the store in her Honda Civic and she gave him the cash. She was taken into custody immediately after the exchange and was being held at the Camden County Correctional Facility.

Authorities said Diiorio had been the police officer’s barber, and the two began dating about a year ago. But things soon turned sour, they said, and the officer filed a temporary restraining order against Diiorio in August.

In September, he reported that his home had been vandalized by someone who threw a Molotov cocktail at the house, the affidavit said.

Last week, after the man who said Diiorio tried to hire him to kill the officer reported her actions to police, the officer identified her from photographs detectives showed him, according to the affidavit. He said they had dated and had ended their relationship on March 6, the document said.

Philadelphia police, who were notified of the alleged plot and helped South Jersey authorities with the investigation, declined to identify the officer. Sgt. Eric Gripp, a department spokesperson, commended law enforcement officials in Camden County for their work on the case.

Anyone with information about the alleged crime is asked to call Detective Ryan Durham of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit at 856-225-5127.