Jill Biden’s first husband pleads not guilty to murdering second wife

A Delaware antheral who was joined to erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden decades agone pleaded not blameworthy Tuesday to sidesplitting his 2nd woman successful Delaware. 

William Stevenson, 77, is charged with sidesplitting Linda Stevenson, 64, who was recovered unresponsive astatine their location successful Wilmington connected Dec. 28. 

He remains successful custody connected $2 cardinal bail aft being charged with execution connected Feb. 3.

Linda Stevenson ran a bookkeeping concern and was described successful her obituary arsenic a family-oriented parent and grandma and a Philadelphia Eagles fan. The obituary does not notation her husband, contempt them having been joined for 40 years.

JILL BIDEN'S 2019 MEMOIR DESCRIBED BEING 'DEVASTATED' BY DIVORCE FROM BILL STEVENSON, NOW CHARGED WITH MURDER

William Stevenson, the archetypal hubby of erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden, has been charged with sidesplitting his woman astatine their Delaware location successful precocious December. (New Castle County Police via AP; AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

William Stevenson, laminitis of the fashionable Delaware euphony venue Stone Balloon, appeared remotely successful tribunal Tuesday. 

"The symptom of losing her is paralyzing and the emptiness successful my bosom is an abyss," Linda’s daughter, Christine Vettori, wrote successful a Facebook station aft her death. "Most days I tin hardly breathe."

JILL BIDEN'S 2019 MEMOIR DESCRIBED BEING 'DEVASTATED' BY DIVORCE FROM BILL STEVENSON, NOW CHARGED WITH MURDER

Then-President Joe Biden and archetypal woman Jill Biden get connected Air Force One astatine Cornwall Airport Newquay, adjacent Newquay, England. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

Stevenson joined Jill Biden successful 1970 erstwhile she was an 18-year-old University of Delaware pupil and helium was 23. The nuptials lasted 5 years earlier they divorced. 

Stevenson remained a professional of his ex-wife, but said helium wasn't "bitter" astir the mode things ended. 

"I’m not bitter because, if it wasn't for my divorce, I would ne'er person met my woman Linda and she's the top happening successful my life," Bill told the Daily Mail successful a 2020 interview. 

Jill Biden went connected to wed erstwhile President Joe Biden, who served successful the White House from January 2021 to January 2025.

The location of William Stevenson, the ex-husband of erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden, is shown successful Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Stevenson has been charged successful the sidesplitting his existent woman astatine the home.  (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.