Jill Biden‘s ex-husband, Bill Stevenson, has been charged with the murder of his wife, Linda Stevenson, more than one month after she was found unresponsive in their Delaware home in December 2025.
The New Castle County Police Department confirmed in a press release that Bill, 78, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge and taken into custody without incident on Monday, February 2.
Bill was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court 2 and is currently being held at Howard Young Correctional Institution, according to police. His bail was set at $500,000, though he has not paid the fee.
It’s not currently clear if Bill has entered a plea or retained legal representation following his arrest.
As 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 reported to the home after they received a call about a domestic dispute, according to a press 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, their 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 they 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 previously married to Biden, 74, from February 1970 until May 1975.
While Biden hasn’t publicly shared much about her marriage to Bill, she did tell Harper’s Bazaar in May 2022 that they wed when Bill was a college football player and she was a student at University of Delaware.
“I believed so much in the institution of marriage,” she said at the time. “When the marriage fell apart, I fell hard because of that. And for him to turn out to be who he was …”
Biden went on to admit that she worried about how to support herself after the divorce. Due to her concerns, she returned to school and focused on how she could improve her life.
“I knew I would never, ever 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 went on to marry former President Joe Biden in June 1977, said. “I drummed that into [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 also previously spoke about Biden and Bill’s relationship in a 2022 interview.
“She had these expectations of sort of what that marriage was going to be, and the marriage did not live up to those expectations,” Pace said at the time. “She was incredibly young and probably a bit naive about what life was going to look like, and it stings her. It really stings her, and it makes her question quite a bit.”
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