Overview
- New Castle County police say officers arrived around 11:16 p.m. Sunday to an Oak Hill home and found 64-year-old Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the living room before she was pronounced dead.
- Detectives from the department’s Criminal Investigations Unit are leading the inquiry, and the Delaware Division of Forensic Science will determine cause and manner of death via autopsy.
- TMZ reports dispatch audio from the incident referenced a possible cardiac arrest, which officials have not confirmed as the cause.
- TMZ further reports Bill Stevenson placed the 911 call and has spoken with detectives, who say he is cooperating, while authorities have announced no arrests.
- Linda Stevenson’s daughter described the probe as a “murder investigation,” but a county spokesperson said it is being handled as a death investigation.