The wife of Bill Stevenson, ex-husband of former First Lady Jill Biden, was found dead at her Wilmington home Sunday night, police said.
New Castle County Police said in a press release that officers were called to the home in the Oak Hill section of the city after receiving a report about a “domestic dispute” at 11:16 pm.
The statement says that officers found Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the living room. Despite life-saving measures being taken, the 64-year-old was pronounced dead. An autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death.
“Its still an active investigation,” a spokesperson for the New Castle County Division of Police told The Independent. When asked whether Stevenson's death is being investigated as a crime, the spokesperson said, “Right now it's a death investigation.”
Jill Biden married Stevenson in 1970 while she was still a college student. The pair divorced in 1975, 12 months after separating, and two years before she married former President Joe Biden in 1977.
TMZ reports that Stevenson called authorities. He is believed to be cooperating with authorities and has not been charged with a crime.
Little is known about Jill Biden’s marriage to Stevenson.
In 2022, her biographer Julie Pace told People that Biden “had these expectations of sort of what that marriage was going to be, and the marriage did not live up to those expectations.”
“She was incredibly young and probably a bit naive about what life was going to look like, and it stings her. It really stings her, and it makes her question quite a bit.”
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Stevenson came forward to dispute the Biden campaign’s claims about how the former first couple met.
He told WDEL in an interview that Jill Stevenson, as she was known at the time, met the future president while working on a local political campaign around 1972. Many of the campaign fundraisers were held at his bar, the Stone Balloon in Newark, Delaware.
Stevenson went on to accuse his former wife of having an affair, something a Biden spokesperson strongly denied at the time.
The official story put out by the Biden campaign details that it was his brother Frank who set the pair up on a blind date after her divorce.
In 2021, Stevenson made headlines when it was revealed that he was to be questioned by investigators looking into the disappearance of Robert Durst’s first wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982.
Stevenson said in an interview earlier that year that he had an affair with Kathie and that her husband found out and confronted them. This occurred two weeks before her disappearance.
“I feel like I’m the missing link in the case,” Stevenson told News12 Westchester in July 2021. He was friends with Robert Durst for years. Durst, who died in 2022, was long suspected of murdering Kathie. In 2020, he was convicted of shooting Susie Berman at point-blank range in 2000. Berman was believed to have been able to link Durst to Kathie’s murder.
Durst made several damning statements during media appearances in the last years of his life, including a stunning confession during an unguarded moment in the six-part HBO documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”
