The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December, authorities announced in a news release Tuesday (local time).
William Stevenson, 77, of Wilmington, was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975. Caroline Harrison, the Delaware Attorney General’s spokesperson, confirmed in a phone call that Stevenson is the former husband of Jill Biden.
Stevenson remains in jail after failing to post US$500,000 (NZ$827,782) bail after his arrest on Monday on first-degree murder charges. He is charged with killing Linda Stevenson, 64, on December 28.
Police were called to the home for a reported domestic dispute after 11pm and found a woman unresponsive in the living room, according to a prior news release. Life-saving measures were unsuccessful.
She ran a bookkeeping business and was described as a family-oriented mother and grandmother and a Philadelphia Eagles fan, according to her obituary, which does not mention her husband.
Stevenson was charged in a grand jury indictment after a week-long investigation by detectives in the Delaware Department of Justice.
It was not immediately clear if Stevenson had a lawyer. He founded a popular music venue in Newark called the Stone Balloon in the early 1970s
Jill Biden married US Senator Joe Biden in 1977. He served as US president from January 2021 to January 2025.
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