A suburban Philadelphia woman tried to hire a hitman to kill her ex-boyfriend, who is a Philadelphia police officer, authorities said Tuesday.
Jaclyn Diiorio, 26, also wanted to have the man’s teenage daughter killed, the Camden County prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The intended victims have been identified only as a 53-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman; neither target was harmed.
Authorities learned about the plan last week, when Diiorio reached out to a confidential informant about the hit, according to the prosecutor’s office. She offered to pay the informant $12,000 to kill both targets.
On April 4, Diiorio met the informant on North Black Horse Pike in Gloucester Township and handed him an advance payment of $500, police said. She was then detained by officers at the scene.
Diiorio was charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder, one count of conspiracy and one count of drug possession, cops said. She was holding alprazolam (Xanax) pills when she was arrested, according to police.
Diiorio lives in Runnemede, about 8 miles south of downtown Philadelphia across the Delaware River and just north of Gloucester, where she was detained. She is scheduled for a detention hearing Wednesday in Camden County.
Police did not say how long Diiorio and the intended target have been separated or publicly speculate on a motive for the murder-for-hire plot.
