Bill Stevenson was once married to Jill Biden. “No one f**ks with a Biden,” Joe Biden said on a hot mic on October 5, 2022.
During a recent phone call, one of Bill Stevenson’s longtime friends told me, “Delaware is not a state – it’s a corporation.”
Her point was that Delaware’s political, legal, and law-enforcement establishment is unusually close-knit, with influential figures often knowing one another personally, and that longstanding relationships carry significant weight. Joe Biden spent more than fifty years at the center of that political establishment.
On the night of December 28, 2025, New Castle County police responded to the Wilmington-area home of Bill and Linda Stevenson after receiving a call from Bill shortly after 11:00 p.m. Officers found Linda Stevenson, 64, unresponsive in the living room. Despite life-saving efforts, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
An initial autopsy reportedly found no evidence of foul play and could not even identify a cause of death. Authorities then ordered a second autopsy.
Following that second examination, a New Castle County grand jury indicted Bill Stevenson, 77, on February 2, 2026, charging him with first-degree murder. He was arrested without incident, plead not guilty, and initially held on $500,000 bail, which was quickly increased to $2 million cash bail.
To date, prosecutors have not publicly disclosed a motive, released autopsy reports, nor any evidence underlying the indictment. Stevenson, who lacked the financial resources to hire private counsel, is represented by the New Castle County Public Defender’s Office.
Bill Stevenson and the Bidens
Stevenson believes the roots of his current legal troubles stretch back more than fifty years.
In a series of media appearances beginning in 2023, most notably on Newsmax’s Greg Kelly Reports, Stevenson challenged the long-accepted public account of how Joe and Jill Biden met.
The Bidens had publicly said they were introduced on a blind date in 1975. Stevenson disputed that account, alleging that he and Jill had known Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia, since 1972, when Biden was beginning his political career in Delaware.
Stevenson says he supported Biden’s first U.S. Senate campaign and contends that Joe Biden and Jill began an adulterous romantic relationship at some point while Stevenson and Jill were still married.
According to Stevenson, the oft-repeated blind-date story was created later by the Bidens to conceal the true timeline of the relationship.
Jill Biden’s Bitterness over the Divorce Settlement
In her recently released memoir, View from the East Wing, Jill Biden reflects on her marriage to Bill Stevenson and the couple’s divorce. She recalls seeking an ownership interest in Stevenson’s successful ‘Stone Balloon’ nightclub during the divorce proceedings, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
I listened to the audiobook version, narrated by Jill Biden herself. As she recounts the story, her voice becomes noticeably more emotional, even angry. In fact, Stevenson told Greg Kelly he believed his federal tax prosecution in the 1980s was due to his divorce dispute with Jill. He was prosecuted over approximately $8,200 in payroll taxes that were only one week overdue.
Hellbound and Down 