{"id":336145,"date":"2026-02-04T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/man-once-married-to-jill-biden-held-without-bail-after-being-charged-in-wifes-killing"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:27:13","slug":"man-once-married-to-jill-biden-held-without-bail-after-being-charged-in-wifes-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/man-once-married-to-jill-biden-held-without-bail-after-being-charged-in-wifes-killing","title":{"rendered":"Man as soon as married to Jill Biden held with out bail after being charged in spouse\u2019s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">WILMINGTON, Del. &#8212; <\/span>A Delaware man who was briefly married to former first lady Jill Biden decades ago remains in jail on <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jill-biden-exhusband-murder-domestic-violence-delaware-523e98ae72c7df4ff1fbb65369dc2e15\">first-degree murder charges<\/a> as authorities investigate the death of his wife, who was found unresponsive in their home late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">William Stevenson, 77, of Wilmington was charged Monday in a grand jury indictment with killing his wife, Linda Stevenson, 64, on Dec. 28. He has remained in jail after failing to post $500,000 bail, authorities said. Investigators have not disclosed a motive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say they were called to the couple\u2019s home shortly after 11 p.m. for a reported domestic dispute and found a woman unresponsive in the living room, according to a previous news release. Life-saving measures were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stevenson was charged following a weekslong investigation by detectives in the Delaware Department of Justice. It was not immediately clear whether he has an attorney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stevenson was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975. Jill Biden married U.S. Sen. Joe Biden in 1977. He served as U.S. president from January 2021 to January 2025. A spokesperson for former U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady said Jill Biden declined to comment on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Linda Stevenson ran a bookkeeping business and was described in her obituary as a family-oriented mother and grandmother and a Philadelphia Eagles fan. The obituary does not mention her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stevenson founded the Stone Balloon, a popular music venue in Newark, Delaware, in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a 2024 interview with the conservative outlet Newsmax, Stevenson criticized Jill Biden and described their divorce as contentious, calling her \u201cbitter\u201d and \u201cnasty.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">___ Dale reported from Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/man-married-jill-biden-held-bail-after-charged-129851943\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILMINGTON, Del. &#8212; A Delaware man who was briefly married to former first lady Jill Biden decades ago remains in jail on first-degree murder charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12818,639,14063,6085,14065,1163,609,1679,173,14061],"class_list":["post-336145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dale","tag-delaware","tag-delaware-division-of-justice","tag-jill-biden","tag-newark","tag-philadelphia","tag-president","tag-spokesperson","tag-united-states","tag-william-stevenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336147,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336145\/revisions\/336147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}