(New Castle County Police Department/Susan Walsh/AP photo)
Bill Stevenson, the former husband of Dr. Jill Biden, has been charged with the murder of his current wife, Linda Stevenson, who was found unresponsive in the couple’s Delaware home in December, authorities said Tuesday.
Stevenson, 77, was taken into custody by the New Castle County cops on Monday after a weeks-long investigation into the death of his wife. The case was presented to a grand jury, which handed down a murder indictment, according to a statement from the police department.
The former first lady’s ex was arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder and sent to the Howard Young Correctional Institution after failing to post $500,000 cash bail, cops said.
Back on December 28, police were called to the Stevenson home just after 11 p.m. to investigate a possible domestic dispute, according to local reports.
Inside, they found Linda Stevenson unresponsive. Despite efforts to revive her, she was later pronounced dead.
Linda Stevenson has been married to Bill Stevenson for nearly 40 years, after his marriage to Jill Jacobs ended in divorce in 1975.
Jacobs married then-Senator Joe Biden in 1977.
Bill Stevenson opened the popular University of Delaware hotspot The Stone Balloon in 1972. It was later named “One of the 100 Top College Bars in America” by Playboy magazine, according to its website.
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