A former husband of jill biden, William Stevenson, 77, was charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife, Linda Stevenson, 64, New Castle County police said, according to NBC News.
The police said a grand jury indictment led to Mr Stevenson’s arrest and that the charge is first degree murder, the report said.
Officers were called to a Wilmington area home for a reported domestic incident, where Linda Stevenson was found unresponsive; she later died and her body was sent for autopsy, authorities said, NBC News reported.
Police have not publicly disclosed the cause of death and they gave no details about how Mrs Stevenson died, the reporting added.
Stevenson remains jailed at the Howard Young Correctional Institution after failing to post $500,000 cash bail, NBC News said, and court records did not indicate whether he has legal representation.
Background And Local Reaction
Mr Stevenson was married to Jill Tracy Jacobs when she was a college freshman; they met on a beach, married six months later and their marriage ended shortly before she met Joe Biden, Mrs Biden wrote in her memoir.
Mrs Biden said in her memoir that she "truly believed we were destined for each other" and later wrote that "looking back it may seem like a mistake of youth."
Local reporting described activity at Mr Stevenson’s split level home in the Oak Hill neighborhood, with news vans and an unmarked police car present; two cars were in the driveway and a wreath with pink, green and white roses adorned the house.
Mr Stevenson wrote in a newspaper article that he used a $14,000 inheritance from an uncle to buy a bar in downtown Newark, which he renamed The Stone Balloon and ran with a focus on entertainment for college students.
Local coverage said he had repeated disputes with the City of Newark over construction permits and that newspapers chronicled troubles paying taxes; he later sold the bar and it eventually closed, the reporting said.
Will Webber, who has known Mr Stevenson since his early days running The Stone Balloon, said in an interview he "always thought he was an interesting guy" and that he "never watched him mistreat anyone," according to the report.
A spokesperson for former President Joe Biden and Jill Biden did not respond to a request for comment, NBC News reported.
