Jill Biden’s Ex-Husband Arrested for Murder – His Shady Past is Exposed

A stunning arrest in President Trump’s America has brought renewed scrutiny to the man Jill Biden divorced decades before she entered political life. William Stevenson, the former spouse of the onetime First Lady, is now charged with murdering his wife inside their Delaware home — and investigators are revisiting his bizarre connection to one of the most infamous criminal cases in modern history.

Stevenson, 77, was taken into custody earlier this week after a grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Linda. Police found her unresponsive on December 28, 2025, after what officials described as a domestic dispute. At first, responders labeled it a likely cardiac event. That changed fast.

According to New Castle County Police, a deeper review of the scene and medical evidence led detectives to conclude Linda died “under violent circumstances.” Stevenson was arrested on February 2 without incident.

He is being held at the Howard Young Correctional Center after failing to post $500,000 bail.

Long before Jill married Joe Biden, Stevenson had already lived a life full of strange detours and dark associations. But few knew how bizarre it truly was until recently.

In the early 1980s, just after his divorce from Jill, Stevenson entered into an affair with 29-year-old medical student Kathie Durst — the wife of then-unknown real estate heir Robert Durst. Kathie disappeared days later and was never found.

Durst, who would later become the center of the HBO true-crime documentary phenomenon, was eventually charged in connection with Kathie’s disappearance. He died in prison in 2021.

Stevenson publicly admitted the affair in 2021, calling himself “the missing link” in the long-unsolved case.

In a televised interview at the time, Stevenson recalled the moment Robert Durst allegedly discovered him in bed with Kathie.

“There was pounding on the door before eight in the morning,” he said. “She looked terrified. She just said, ‘It’s Bob.’ The next thing I know, he barges in screaming. He had this roll of cash in his hand and swung it straight into her face. I remember thinking, this man is unhinged.”

Kathie disappeared 10 days later.

With Stevenson now charged with killing his own wife, speculation has exploded about whether he may have played a larger role in the decades-old Durst saga than previously understood.

Officials in Westchester County, New York — where Kathie vanished — say they are aware of Stevenson’s arrest but consider their case resolved.

“We were prepared to prove Robert Durst murdered Kathleen Durst beyond a reasonable doubt,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement to reporters. “Durst was our perpetrator.”

Still, the timing has not gone unnoticed. Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators have already pointed out that Jill Biden’s former husband has been tied to two women who ended up dead or missing — one in a notorious cold case, and one in a modern homicide indictment.

Police say officers were dispatched to the Stevenson home just after 11 p.m. on December 28. Sources familiar with the investigation say the scene “immediately raised flags” despite the initial cardiac-arrest assumption.

By mid-January, investigators had launched a full forensic review.

Neighbors tell a very different story from the calm, quiet image Stevenson once projected.

“Cops had been there before,” one Wilmington resident told reporters. “Nobody was surprised when they came back this time. But we were shocked when they said Linda was gone.”

A law-enforcement source added that Stevenson was “calm, almost rehearsed” when officers first arrived the night of Linda’s death.

“It didn’t feel like the reaction of a panicked husband,” the source said. “Something was off.”

Jill Biden, who divorced Stevenson in 1975, has made almost no public comment about her former husband’s history, even as old stories about his ties to Kathie Durst resurfaced during Joe Biden’s political rise.

But with President Trump now back in office and national attention shifting sharply, the arrest has become a political flashpoint.

Conservative analysts are asking whether the Biden family ever faced serious scrutiny over Stevenson’s past when Joe Biden was in power.

“Imagine if this were President Trump’s ex-in-law,” one Republican strategist said Wednesday. “There would’ve been congressional hearings before sunrise.”

Stevenson is expected to appear again in court later this month. Prosecutors are preparing for what one investigator called “a complex and high-profile prosecution.”

“We’re going exactly where the evidence leads,” a Delaware official said. “And right now, it leads to murder.”

As one Westchester County detective put it: “The Durst case may be closed. But there are shadows that never went away.”

And now, with Jill Biden’s ex back in a jail cell and facing life in prison, those shadows are darker — and louder — than ever.