Overview
- A New Castle County grand jury returned the first-degree murder charge after a weeks-long investigation coordinated with Delaware Department of Justice detectives.
- Police arrested Stevenson on Feb. 2 and booked him into the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution after he did not post $500,000 cash bail.
- Officers responded on Dec. 28 to a reported domestic dispute at the Wilmington residence, found Linda Stevenson unconscious, and she was pronounced dead at the scene as an autopsy was ordered.
- Authorities have not publicly released the autopsy findings or further details on the cause of death.
- Officials confirmed Stevenson, 77, was married to Jill Biden in the 1970s, and a spokesman for the Bidens declined to comment.