by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2026 Non-AI Real World News
On Dec. 28, 2025, police in New Castle, Delaware were called to the home of Bill and Linda Stevenson for a “reported domestic dispute.” The police reported finding 64-year-old Linda Stevenson “unresponsive” on the living room floor. She was pronounced dead the next day.
Police announced on Feb. 3, 2026 that 77-year-old Bill Stevenson had been arrested the previous day on a first-degree murder charge.
Bill Stevenson and Jill Biden
The case of Stevenson, who was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975, has been shrouded in secrecy. That, critics say, can be attributed to a tight-knit inner circle of high-profile individuals in Joe Biden’s Delaware dynasty.
In 2024, Stevenson self-published a book about his relationship with Jill Biden, who married then-Delaware U.S. Sen. Joe Biden in 1977. Stevenson wrote that his marriage to Jill broke down because she had an extramarital affair with Joe Biden before their divorce was final.
Though the state conducted an autopsy, Linda Stevenson’s cause of death has not been released by her family or law enforcement.
No additional information was released by police after Bill Stevenson’s arrest. A public arrest affidavit that details how police developed the evidence to charge Stevenson was not filed. Instead, a grand jury indictment was obtained on Feb. 2 after what police called an “extensive” investigation. The one-sentence indictment alleges that Bill Stevenson “did intentionally cause the death of Linda Stevenson.”
After Stevenson was taken into custody, he appeared before a court magistrate who ordered him to be detained at Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington in lieu of $500,000 cash bail.
But authorities then decided that wasn’t enough. During a Feb. 5 Zoom hearing, prosecutor Jenna Milecki successfully argued to Superior Court Commissioner Lynne Parker that Stevenson’s bail should be quadrupled to $2 million cash bail.
While no paperwork was filed with the request to increase bail, the Attorney General’s Office acted based on the “severity of the crime” and because they considered Stevenson a “flight risk,” Caroline Harrison, spokesperson for Attorney General Kathy Jennings, said.
What is wrong with this picture?
Newsmax host Greg Kelly, son of former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly provided some context in a substack column in which he made clear he is a friend of Stevenson:
“Delaware is a small state where everyone who matters tends to know everyone else — especially when it involves the state’s most powerful political family.”
He added that while the state was a train-ride to work for Joe Biden, is is “far enough from the intense national media glare of New York and Washington,” affording it a “level of insularity that can shield influence from outside accountability.”
Thus this story has not exactly been national news like the train wreck of a former first family was when it was in power thanks in part to the abandoned Hunter Biden laptop which was indexed in graphic detail for a best-selling book by Garrett Ziegler, Report on the Biden Laptop.
“Garrett M. Ziegler — founder of the Marco Polo nonprofit research and investigative organization and a licensed private investigator — sent me detailed research highlighting major conflicts of interest and the extensive web of Biden ties to Bill Stevenson’s case,” Kelly noted.
“Garrett has done some of the most thorough and dogged investigative work in the country on the Biden family’s dealings. I have great respect for his integrity and judgment. He shared his detailed research with me, and I’m attributing the key findings directly to his work.
“Garrett’s research lays out, at the very least, severe conflicts of interest that warrant recusals and intense scrutiny. The Bill Stevenson matter should concern every fair-minded person.”
Parker, the Superior Court commissioner who heard Stevenson’s case, “has been married for decades to Charles Monroe Oberly III, one of the most prominent names in Delaware legal circles and a close friend of Joe Biden,” Greg Kelly wrote in a Substack analysis last month.
Kelly continued: “Charlie Oberly served as Delaware Attorney General from 1983 to 1995 and as U.S. Attorney for Delaware from 2010 to 2017 during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. He was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 1994, with Joe Biden actively campaigning for him. Oberly has donated thousands to Biden campaigns over the years and appears in emails from the abandoned Biden laptop. In 2024, he publicly defended Hunter Biden in op-eds and interviews, claiming the federal charges against him were unwarranted.
“When Obama formally nominated Oberly as U.S. Attorney in 2011, Beau Biden introduced him at the formal investiture ceremony. Then-Vice President Joe Biden sent a message welcoming him as ‘my friend, my new partner in law enforcement.’
“That line is striking. A sitting Vice President openly referring to the top federal prosecutor in his home state as his “partner in law enforcement” directly undercuts any notion that the Department of Justice operates with complete independence from political influence — especially in Delaware.”
The public defender assigned to Bill Stevenson’s case may be married to the chief of staff to current Delaware Democrat Gov. Matt Meyer, Kelly wrote.
“Governor Meyer himself has deep Biden ties: he worked on Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign as a teenager, knew Beau and Hunter growing up, and is publicly described as a close friend of Joe Biden. Biden called Meyer on election night in 2024 to congratulate him — and reportedly joked about possibly running against him someday.” Meyer’s chief of staff, Misty Autumn Seemans, previously worked for Ted Kaufman, the man Joe Biden personally hand-picked to succeed him in the Senate, Kelly added.
Kelly noted that “these aren’t vague six-degrees connections. This is one-degree separation from Joe Biden himself in a tiny state where everyone who matters knows everyone else — especially when it involves the Biden family.
“This is the Delaware Way: loyalty to power first, transparency last. Bill crossed the Bidens decades ago in the divorce, embarrassed the Bidens by demythologizing the official love story in 2020, endorsed Trump, and was on track for a presidential pardon. Then tragedy strikes and the system moves swiftly against him with almost no public evidence released.”
