{"id":30366,"date":"2026-02-04T05:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30366"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:12:54","slug":"jill-bidens-ex-husband-william-stevenson-charged-with-murder-after-death-of-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/jill-bidens-ex-husband-william-stevenson-charged-with-murder-after-death-of-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden&#8217;s ex-husband William Stevenson charged with murder after death of wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with first-degree murder after the death of his wife.<\/p>\n<p>William Stevenson, 77, was indicted on Monday by a grand jury in New Castle County,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/delaware-5720\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Delaware<\/strong><\/a>, in connection with the death of 64-year-old Linda Stevenson last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/jill-biden-10326\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mrs Biden<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0married Stevenson in February 1970, when she was 18 years old and a student at the University of Delaware, and he was 23.<\/p>\n<p>They were only married for five years. In March of 1975, she met then Democratic senator for Delaware Joe Biden, and a civil divorce between her and Stevenson was granted in May of that year.<\/p>\n<p>New Castle County Police said Stevenson was taken into custody at the home in Oak Hill without incident on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been arraigned and sent to the Howard Young Correction Institution in Wilmington, where he has been unable to pay a $500,000 (\u00a3365,207) cash bail.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, at around 11.16pm on 28 December, officers responded to a reported domestic dispute at a residence in Oak Hill, just west of Wilmington in New Castle County.<\/p>\n<p>Upon entering the home, emergency services found Mrs Stevenson unresponsive in the living room. She was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Delaware state police say Mrs Stevenson&#8217;s body has been turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, where a post mortem examination will be conducted to determine the cause and manner of her death.<\/p>\n<p>The office of Jill and ex-president Joe Biden declined to comment to Sky&#8217;s US partner network NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/texas-woman-lizelle-herrera-26-charged-with-murder-over-self-induced-abortion-12586757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with first-degree murder after the death of his wife. William Stevenson, 77, was indicted on Monday by a grand jury in New Castle County,\u00a0Delaware, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/jill-bidens-ex-husband-william-stevenson-charged-with-murder-after-death-of-wife\/\" title=\"Jill Biden&#8217;s ex-husband William Stevenson charged with murder after death of wife\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,3],"tags":[2982,12122,12124,12123,12125],"class_list":{"0":"post-30366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-usa","10":"tag-delaware","11":"tag-jill-biden","12":"tag-new-castle-county","13":"tag-new-castle-county-police","14":"tag-oak-hill","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30368,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366\/revisions\/30368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}