Jill Biden's ex-husband, now charged with murder, called wife 'greatest thing in my life'

The ex-husband of erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden, who is charged with murdering his existent wife, erstwhile described his spouse arsenic "the top happening successful my life," according to reports. 

William "Bill" Stevenson, 77, was arrested Monday successful transportation with the decease of 64-year-old Linda Stevenson pursuing a weeks-long investigation, the New Castle County Division of Police said. 

Officers responded to the couple's Delaware location connected Dec. 28, 2025 for a reported home quality erstwhile they recovered Linda Stevenson unresponsive. 

JILL BIDEN'S 2019 MEMOIR DESCRIBED BEING 'DEVASTATED' BY DIVORCE FROM BILL STEVENSON, NOW CHARGED WITH MURDER

William Stevenson, the archetypal hubby of erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden, has been charged with sidesplitting his woman astatine their Delaware location successful precocious December. (New Castle County Police via AP; AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. Her origin of decease has not been revealed. Stevenson is being held successful jailhouse connected $500,000 bail. 

The mates were joined for astir 40 years, according to an indictment obtained by PEOPLE. 

Stevenson joined Biden successful 1970 erstwhile she was an 18-year-old University of Delaware pupil and helium was 23. The nuptials lasted 5 years earlier they divorced. 

Stevenson remained a professional of his ex-wife, but said helium wasn't "bitter" astir the mode things ended. 

"I’m not bitter because, if it wasn't for my divorce, I would ne'er person met my woman Linda and she's the top happening successful my life," Bill told the Daily Mail successful a 2020 interview. 

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Jill Biden speaks during a reception successful the East Room of the White House connected December 2, 2024 successful Washington, D,C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Bill has claimed Jill and erstwhile President Joe Biden had an matter earlier she was divorced, and that Bill introduced the brace successful 1972. The Bidens person denied the matter allegations.

In a Facebook post, Linda’s girl Christine Vettori described her ma arsenic her champion friend, saying the brace talked astir each time and ate meal unneurotic each Friday. 

"The symptom of losing her is paralyzing and the emptiness successful my bosom is an abyss," she wrote. "Most days I tin hardly breathe."

Vettori noted that her parent had her astatine a young age.

The location of William Stevenson, the ex-husband of erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden, is shown successful Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Stevenson has been charged successful the sidesplitting his existent woman astatine the home. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau) (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

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"In a batch of ways, we grew up together," she wrote. "We some were raised by a colony of incredibly beardown women, pb by emotion and determination to beryllium the champion examples of motherhood they knew."

"Together we volition grant her representation by seeking justness for her execution and ne'er letting her bequest to beryllium overshadowed by her murderer," she added.