Former first woman Jill Biden’s ex-husband has been charged with murdering his spouse following an “intensive weeks-long investigation,” police in Delaware introduced on Tuesday.
Law enforcement officials responding to a “reported home dispute” at a house within the Wilmington neighborhood of Oak Hill on Dec. 28 discovered Linda Stevenson, 64, unresponsive on the lounge ground, based on police. Her husband, William “Invoice” Stevenson, had known as 911, police mentioned on the time.
The reserving photograph for William Stevenson.
New Fortress County Police
A grand jury in New Fortress County on Monday indicted Stevenson, 77, with first-degree homicide in connection together with his spouse’s loss of life, based on police.
The indictment alleges he “did deliberately trigger the loss of life” of his spouse.
Detectives took Stevenson into custody at his dwelling with out incident, police said. He has since been arraigned and is being held within the Howard Younger Correctional Establishment in Wilmington after failing to submit $500,000 bail, police mentioned.
It’s unclear if Stevenson has an lawyer.
Officers responded to the Stevensons’ dwelling after 11 p.m. on Dec. 28 and tried lifesaving measures, however Linda Stevenson was later pronounced lifeless, police said.
Detectives from the New Fortress County Police Division’s Felony Investigations Unit responded to the scene to imagine the investigation, officers mentioned.
No extra particulars, together with the reason for loss of life, have been launched.
First woman Jill Biden arrives forward of Hunter Biden’s trial at federal court docket, June 3, 2024, in Wilmington, Del.
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Linda Stevenson ran a bookkeeping enterprise and was “deeply family-oriented,” based on her obituary, which didn’t point out her husband.
Invoice Stevenson based a well-liked bar and music corridor within the early Seventies in Newark, Delaware. He’s the previous husband of Jill Biden, the Delaware Division of Justice confirmed to ABC Information. The 2 had been married for 5 years earlier than divorcing in 1975.
Jill Biden married former President Joe Biden two years later, in 1977.
