William Stevenson, who was briefly married to former first woman Jill Biden greater than 5 many years in the past, has been charged with the homicide of his longtime spouse, Linda Stevenson, Delaware police introduced Tuesday.
On Dec. 28, simply earlier than midnight, police responded to a home dispute on the Stevensons’ New Castle County house. Police stated they discovered Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the lounge, and after making an attempt “life-saving measures,” she was pronounced lifeless. Police offered few particulars of the incident and didn’t say how she died.
On Monday, authorities offered the case to a grand jury and an indictment was returned, charging the 77-year-old with first-degree homicide. Police took him into custody “without incident” that very same day. His bail was set at $500,000 money.
William and Linda Stevenson had been married for about 40 years.
Linda Stevenson, 64, was a mom, grandmother and enterprise proprietor.
“Linda will be remembered as tenacious, kind-hearted, and fiercely loyal,” reads her obituary, which doesn’t point out her husband. “Her strength, resilience, and unwavering love for her family and friends will never be forgotten, and her absence will be felt deeply by all who knew her.”
William Stevenson sparked headlines within the 2020 presidential election when he informed “Inside Edition” that he believed Jill and Joe Biden had an affair. Jill Biden was married to William Stevenson from 1970 to 1974.
Stevenson claimed that he and Jill received to know Joe Biden in 1972 when Stevenson threw a fundraising occasion for the longer term president, who was then a county council member in New Castle, Delaware. Stevenson stated he started to suspect the 2 have been having an affair in 1974 — one 12 months earlier than Jill and Joe Biden have stated they have been arrange by Joe Biden’s brother on a blind date.
Jill Biden denied Stevenson’s declare, telling “Inside Edition” in an announcement on the time that the declare of an affair is “fictitious.”
William Stevenson got here ahead with the allegations when he was eager about releasing a ebook about his life. In 2020, he informed the Daily Mail that he didn’t “want to harm” Jill Biden’s probabilities of changing into first woman.
“She would make an excellent first lady — but this is my story,” he stated.
He added: “It’s not a bitter book — I’m not bitter because, if it wasn’t for my divorce, I would never have met my wife Linda and she’s the greatest thing in my life — but it does have facts in it that aren’t pleasant to Jill and Joe.”