Overview
- Police say officers responded to a reported domestic dispute at the Wilmington-area home late on Dec. 28 and found 64-year-old Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the living room.
- Lifesaving measures were unsuccessful at the scene, and her body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science for an autopsy.
- After a weeks-long investigation by New Castle County detectives and the Delaware Department of Justice, a grand jury returned the murder charge on Feb. 2.
- William Stevenson, 77, was arrested at his home, arraigned, and is jailed at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution after failing to post cash bail.
- Authorities have not publicly disclosed the cause or manner of death; public interest has intensified due to Stevenson’s prior marriage to Jill Biden and his founding of The Stone Balloon.