William “Bill” Stevenson, 77, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Linda Stevenson, 64; her daughter Christine Vettori posted blunt, angry messages on Facebook as a Delaware grand jury returned an indictment after a weeks-long probe that began with a December 28, 2025 domestic-dispute call at the Oak Hill home, and many key facts about the death remain unrevealed.
Authorities booked William “Bill” Stevenson on a first-degree murder charge and set bail at $500,000. Linda Stevenson was 64 years old, and her daughter, Christine Vettori, made a public post that left little room for interpretation and put the family’s pain on full display.
“He killed my mother and justice will be served.”
In a separate Facebook message Vettori made clear she has no appetite for mercy toward the man accused of taking her mother’s life. The tone was unforgiving and personal, reflecting a grief that has turned into anger and a demand for accountability.
“He’s going to need all the prayers he can get from prison.”
The murder charge follows a grand jury indictment filed in Delaware after investigators spent weeks gathering evidence. The inquiry began the night of December 28, 2025, when police were called to a domestic disturbance at the Stevenson residence on the 1300 block of Idlewood Road in the Oak Hill neighborhood near Elsmere.
Officers arrived at about 11:16 p.m. and discovered a woman unresponsive on the living room floor. Authorities have not released a cause of death, and the specific circumstances that led to the indictment have not been detailed publicly.
Vettori’s Facebook posts read like someone processing a raw loss while the legal system moves in the background. She also shared a deeply personal note about the emotional aftermath of losing her mother, giving readers a window into the private pain behind the headlines.
“The pain of losing her is paralyzing and the emptiness in my heart is an abyss. Most days I can barely breathe.”
That message landed in a thread where friends and acquaintances weighed in, including a reminder from one commenter that “innocent until proven guilty.” The exchange illustrated how grief and the presumption of innocence collide on social media, even as prosecutors push forward with an indictment for the most serious of charges.
Bill Stevenson was married to Jill Biden for five years before their divorce in 1975, a detail that has drawn attention because of the former first lady’s profile. Stevenson has said he introduced Jill to Joe Biden in 1972 during Biden’s first Senate race, while the Bidens have offered a different timeline, saying their first meeting came on a blind date in 1975.
That dispute about how the Bidens met is largely peripheral to the criminal case, but it helps explain why this story has drawn national interest. What matters now in practical terms is that the man who once shared a marriage with a future first lady is being held at the Howard Young Correctional Institution on a murder charge, and public reaction has been sharp.
Jill Biden was seen heading into a spin class in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, the first public sighting since the arrest, and a spokesperson for Jill and Joe Biden declined to comment when contacted. There has been no public statement of sympathy from the Bidens about Linda Stevenson’s death, and the optics of silence alongside visible activity have not gone unnoticed.
Several important details remain unknown: the official cause of death has not been released, the indictment lists first-degree murder without spelling out the method or motive, and it is not publicly clear whether Stevenson has an attorney or what legal strategy might be employed. Christine Vettori’s exact legal relationship to Bill Stevenson has not been stated beyond her identification as Linda’s daughter.
Those gaps should narrow as the case proceeds through Delaware’s courts and the discovery process unfolds. A grand jury’s decision to indict means prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to charge, but the strength of that evidence and how it will be tested is for a courtroom to decide rather than a Facebook timeline to settle.
This is, at its core, a domestic tragedy: a late-night call about a dispute, an unresponsive woman in her home, and a man in custody. The fact that the accused was once married to a first lady makes the story more visible, but the human toll is ordinary and devastating, and the daughter’s public fury is the only language she seems able to use right now.
