{"id":121685,"date":"2026-02-03T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:28:12","slug":"jill-bidens-ex-husband-william-stevenson-charged-with-first-degree-murder-of-new-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121685\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden’s ex-husband William Stevenson charged with first-degree murder of new wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jill Biden\u2019s ex-husband<\/a>\u00a0was arrested Monday on charges he murdered his wife in their Delaware home in December, according to a report.<\/p>\n

William Stevenson<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who was previously married to the former first lady \u2013 has been hit with first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing his current spouse, Linda Stevenson, 64 at their\u00a0 house in Oak Hill,\u00a0Fox 29 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cops responded to a domestic dispute call on Dec. 28 and found Linda unresponsive on the floor. <\/p>\n

William Stevenson, who was married to former first lady Jill Biden, was arrested in connection with his wife Linda\u2019s murder. New Castle County Police<\/p>\n

Linda and William Stevenson in an undated photo. Facebook<\/p>\n

She was declared dead at the scene after attempting to revive her. <\/p>\n

Her cause of death hasn\u2019t been released yet.<\/p>\n

The 77-year-old husband \u2013 who owns college bar The Stone Balloon near the University of Delaware \u2013 is being held on $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n

His arrest came after a weeks-long investigation.<\/p>\n

Jill Biden, 74, divorced Stevenson in 1975 after a five-year marriage. <\/p>\n

Two years later she wed then-Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.).<\/p>\n

Stevenson has accused Jill of having an affair<\/a> with the one-term Democratic president prior to their divorce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stevenson and Jill Biden seen in undated photo.<\/p>\n

Former first lady Jill Biden divorced Stevenson in 1975. Elder Ordonez\/INSTARimages<\/p>\n

Stevenson was charged with first-degree murder. The Macfarlanes \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Stevenson and Jill worked on Joe Biden\u2019s first campaign for Senate in 1972\u00a0when they both grew close to him, Stevenson has claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That same year Joe Biden\u2019s first wife, Neilia, and their infant daughter were tragically killed in a car crash.<\/p>\n

Stevenson said he started suspecting Joe and Jill were having an affair in 1974.<\/p>\n

Joe and Jill claimed they first met after they were set up on a date in 1975 after Joe became a widower and Jill split with Stevenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jill Biden\u2019s ex-husband\u00a0was arrested Monday on charges he murdered his wife in their Delaware home in December, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[303,27523,30172,238,9,11,10,58],"class_list":["post-121685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime","tag-delaware","tag-jill-biden","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}