William "Bill" Stevenson, the 77-year-old ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden, was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Linda Stevenson. He is being held on $500,000 bail.

Linda Stevenson was 64 years old. Her daughter, Christine Vettori, 45, took to Facebook on Wednesday with a message that left nothing to interpretation:

"He killed my mother and justice will be served."

According to The New York Post, in a separate post, Vettori made clear she has no interest in restraint toward the man charged with taking her mother's life:

"He's going to need all the prayers he can get from prison."

The charge stems from a grand jury indictment filed in Delaware following a weeks-long investigation. That investigation began on the night of December 28, 2025, when officers responded to a report of a domestic dispute at the Stevenson home on the 1300 block of Idlewood Road in the Oak Hill neighborhood near Elsmere. They arrived around 11:16 p.m. and found a woman unresponsive on the living room floor.

A cause of death has yet to be revealed.

A Grieving Daughter, Unfiltered

Vettori's posts carry the rawness of someone processing an unimaginable loss in real time. Alongside her pointed words about the accused, she shared something more personal:

"The pain of losing her is paralyzing and the emptiness in my heart is an abyss. Most days I can barely breathe."

That's a woman burying her mother — not performing grief for an audience. When a Facebook friend responded to Vettori's posts, describing the situation as "very sad" and noting that Stevenson was "innocent until proven guilty," the exchange underscored the strange new reality of American mourning: public, digital, and contested even in its earliest hours.

The legal system will determine guilt. A grand jury has already decided there's enough to indict on first-degree murder. That is not a charge brought lightly, and it is not a charge brought quickly — investigators spent weeks building this case before making an arrest.

The Biden Connection

Bill Stevenson was married to Jill Biden for five years before the couple divorced in 1975. Stevenson has previously claimed he introduced Jill to Joe Biden in 1972 during Joe's first Senate run. The Bidens have maintained a different version — that they first met on a blind date in 1975, after Joe's first wife, Neilia, died in a car accident with his daughter, and after Jill had finalized her divorce from Bill.

That decades-old dispute over timelines is, for the moment, a footnote. What matters now is that a former first lady's ex-husband sits in the Howard Young Correctional Institution on a murder charge — and the former first lady has nothing to say about it.

Jill Biden was spotted for the first time since the arrest on Friday morning, heading into a spin class in nearby Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. A spokesperson for both Jill and Joe Biden declined to comment when contacted by The Post.

No statement of sympathy. No acknowledgment of a woman's death. Just silence and a SoulCycle.

What We Don't Know

There are significant gaps in this story that deserve honest acknowledgment. The cause of Linda Stevenson's death has not been made public. The indictment charges first-degree murder, but the specific circumstances of how she died remain unrevealed. It is unclear whether Stevenson has retained an attorney. Christine Vettori's precise relationship to Bill Stevenson — whether stepdaughter or otherwise — has not been stated publicly, only that she is Linda's daughter.

These gaps will fill in as the case proceeds through Delaware's courts. A grand jury indictment means prosecutors believe they have the evidence. Whether that evidence holds will be tested in the way the American system demands — in a courtroom, not on Facebook.

The Weight of What Remains

Strip away the political connection, and this is a story repeated in homes across America with grim regularity: a domestic dispute call, an unresponsive woman, a man in handcuffs. The fact that the accused was once married to a first lady makes it newsworthy. The fact that a 64-year-old woman is dead makes it a tragedy.

Christine Vettori didn't ask for a public platform. She got one because of who her mother's husband used to be married to. She's using it the only way a grieving daughter knows how — with fury and with pain, in equal measure.

The courts will handle the rest.