Jill Bidenthe ex-husband, Bill Stevensonhas been accused of murdering his wife, Linda Stevensonmore than a month after they were found unresponsive at their Delaware home in December 2025.
The New Castle County Police Department confirmed a press release that Bill, 78, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and taken into custody without incident on Monday, February 2.
Bill was arraigned in Justice of the Peace 2 and is currently being held at the Howard Young Correctional Institution, according to police. His bond was set at $500,000, although he has not paid the fee.
It is currently unclear whether Bill has entered a plea or retained legal representation following his arrest.
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How Us Weekly previously reported, Linda was found dead at the age of 64 by authorities on December 28, 2025, at approximately 11:16 p.m. local time. Police were called to the home after receiving a call about a domestic dispute, according to a news release shared at the time.
Upon their arrival at the home, police found Linda “unresponsive in the living room.” Officers “immediately administered life-saving measures.” However, her efforts were unsuccessful and she was later pronounced dead.
Delaware detectives from the Division’s Criminal Investigations Unit were then notified of the death and took over the case. The police department also said at the time that Linda’s death was under investigation.
Before Bill married Linda, he was married to Biden, 74, from February 1970 to May 1975.
While Biden hasn’t publicly shared much about her marriage to Bill, she did say it Harper’s Bazaar in May 2022 they married when Bill was a college football player and she was a student at the University of Delaware.
“I really believed in the institution of marriage,” he said at the time. “When the marriage broke up, I fell really hard for it. And because he turned out to be who he was…”
Biden admitted she was worried about how to support herself after the divorce. Because of her worries, she went back to school and focused on how she could improve her life.
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“I knew I was never going to put myself in that position again, where I didn’t feel like I had the finances to be on my own, that I had to get the money through a divorce settlement,” Biden, who married an ex. President Joe Biden in June 1977, he said. “That’s what I gave to (my daughter), Ashley: Be independent, be independent. And my granddaughters, you have to be able to stand on your own two feet.”
Meanwhile, Jill: A Biography of the First Lady biographer Julie Pace he also previously spoke about Biden and Bill’s relationship to one interview 2022.
“She had these expectations of what that marriage would be like, and the marriage didn’t live up to those expectations,” Pace said at the time. “She was incredibly young and probably a bit naïve about what life would be like, and it stings. It really stings and makes her question it a bit.”