The ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with first-degree murder after the death of his wife.<\/p>\n
William Stevenson, 77, was indicted on Monday by a grand jury in New Castle County, Delaware<\/a>, in connection with the death of 64-year-old Linda Stevenson last year.<\/p>\n Mrs Biden<\/a> married Stevenson in February 1970, when she was 18 years old and a student at the University of Delaware, and he was 23.<\/p>\n 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 New Castle County Police said Stevenson was taken into custody at the home in Oak Hill without incident on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n 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>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 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 Upon entering the home, emergency services found Mrs Stevenson unresponsive in the living room. She was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Delaware state police say Mrs Stevenson’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 The office of Jill and ex-president Joe Biden declined to comment to Sky’s US partner network NBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with first-degree murder after the death of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-279755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Coastal road swept away into sea<\/a>
Teen boy’s four-hour swim to save family<\/a><\/p>\n