Overview
- Police responded to a late-night domestic-dispute call on December 28 and found Linda Stevenson, 64, unconscious in the living room, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- A Delaware grand jury returned a first-degree murder charge, and the 77-year-old was arrested on February 2 and booked into the Howard Young Correctional Institution.
- Stevenson remains jailed after failing to post a $500,000 cash bond, and authorities have not disclosed whether he has legal representation.
- Detectives from New Castle County Police and the Delaware Department of Justice conducted a weeks-long investigation before presenting the case to the grand jury.
- Officials have not released a cause of death pending forensic review; the case has drawn national attention given Stevenson’s past marriage to Jill Biden, whose office declined comment.