Jill Biden's first husband charged with killing wife in domestic dispute at their Delaware home

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The archetypal hubby of erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden has been charged with sidesplitting his woman astatine their Delaware location successful precocious December, authorities announced successful a quality merchandise Tuesday.

William Stevenson, 77, of Wilmington was joined to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975. Caroline Harrison, the Delaware Attorney General’s spokesperson, confirmed successful a telephone telephone that Stevenson is the erstwhile hubby of Jill Biden.

Stevenson remains successful jailhouse aft failing to station $500,000 bail aft his apprehension Monday connected first-degree execution charges. He is charged with sidesplitting Linda Stevenson, 64, connected Dec. 28.

Police were called to the location for a reported home quality aft 11 p.m. and recovered a pistillate unresponsive successful the surviving room, according to a anterior quality release. Life-saving measures were unsuccessful.

She ran a bookkeeping concern and was described arsenic a family-oriented parent and grandma and a Philadelphia Eagles fan, according to her obituary, which does not notation her husband.

Stevenson was charged successful a expansive assemblage indictment aft a weekslong probe by detectives successful the Delaware Department of Justice.

It was not instantly wide if Stevenson has a lawyer. He founded a fashionable euphony venue successful Newark called the Stone Balloon successful the aboriginal 1970s.

Jill Biden joined U.S. Sen. Joe Biden successful 1977. He served arsenic U.S. president from January 2021 to January 2025.

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