From NBC News: Former first lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband was arrested and charged with murder in the death of his current wife, officials said Tuesday.
William Stevenson, 77, was taken into custody Monday and is facing a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Linda Stevenson, according to a grand jury indictment filed in Delaware.
New Castle County police did not provide details on the death, but an initial release had noted that officers responded to a domestic dispute Dec. 28 at a residence in the Wilmington area.
Linda Stevenson was found unresponsive in the living room and died despite lifesaving measures by officers at the scene. The press release at the time said that her body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science for an autopsy.
After a weeks-long investigation, William Stevenson was finally arrested Monday. He has been charged with first-degree murder and is currently being held at the Howard Young Correctional Institution on a $500,000 cash bail bond.
Jill Biden – then Jill Tracy Jacobs – married William Stevenson in February 1970, when she was 18 years old and a student at the University of Delaware, and he was 23, the report explains. They were married for five years, and divorced in May 1975, after she met Joe Biden in March of that year. She then married Joe Biden in June 1977.
Stevenson said in a 2020 interview with Inside Edition, “I was betrayed by the Bidens … Joe was my friend. Jill was my wife.”
An investigation into a woman’s death in late December has resulted in her husband being charged with 1st-Degree murder. https://t.co/6G8uQUxJ3q pic.twitter.com/Kw8f4HCvkO
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🔺 BREAKING: William Stevenson is accused of the second-degree murder of his second wife Linda, who died in December https://t.co/bTG1DEtmrf
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) February 3, 2026
Former first lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband was arrested and charged with murder in the death of his current wife, officials say. https://t.co/vfKcPqTohW
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 3, 2026
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