A former paramedic is accused of using eye drops to poison his wife and daughter and then trying to blame the atrocities on his in-laws.
Joshua Lee Hunsucker, 39, has been charged with the death of his wife Stacy, 32, in 2018 and sending their 11-year-old daughter to the hospital in 2023.
Hunsucker was originally arrested on a first-degree murder charge in December 2019, more than a year after Stacy died in her Mount Holly home.
His death was initially ruled to be a heart attack, but the alarm was raised by Stacy’s mother, Suzie Robinson, who claimed that her son-in-law was acting suspiciously and had been cheating.
Once Stacy died, Hunsucker refused to perform an autopsy, acted quickly to cremate her, and collected $250,000 from insurance.
Stacy Hunsucker was allegedly murdered by her husband, Joshua Lee Hunsucker, in 2018 after he poisoned her with eye drops. They accuse him of using the same method to poison his eldest daughter in the same way
Hunsucker, 39, had his bond revoked at the Gaston County Courthouse on Monday.
According to an affidavit of his wife’s death, Joshua gave different versions of where he was before discovering his wife in their home slumped over, not breathing and blue on September 23, 2018.
Stacy was rushed to a hospital, where she later died. Despite her refusal to have her body examined by a coroner, Hunsucker, a blood sample was preserved because Stacy was an organ donor.
An insurance investigation was launched after protests from Stacy’s mother. Hunsucker’s co-workers at Atrium Health’s MedCenter Air were interviewed and said they were surprised at how unaffected he seemed by his wife’s death.
They were also shocked by how quickly he began publicly dating another girlfriend, less than six months after his wife’s death.
But he bonded out of jail when his $1.5 million bail was posted just before Christmas in 2019 and has since done everything he can to try to frame his in-laws for Stacy’s death.
The man accused of murder was acting suspiciously and had a secret girlfriend before his wife died, his mother-in-law said.
He was arrested again in August for allegedly adding the same toxic ingredient to his then 10-year-old daughter’s drink (tetrahydrozoline, found in Visine eye drops), leaving her hospitalized in September 2023.
According ABC 7the girl suffered from low blood pressure, low heart rate, severe exhaustion and constricted blood vessels.
By allegedly poisoning her daughter, investigators believe she was trying to frame the devastated grandparents.
Hunsucker is also accused of orchestrating his own kidnapping in February 2023 and blaming his father-in-law, John Robinson.
The police report said, according to FOX 8: ‘He reported that he stopped to change a flat tire and was hit in the head with a gun several times.
“Then they tied his hands and injected him with an unknown substance.”
Hunsucker faces multiple charges in addition to the murder charge for harassing his in-laws and poisoning his daughter.
In addition to stalking and following the Robinsons, reports came to light that Hunsucker abused and neglected the daughter he poisoned and neglected his other daughter, who was nine years old.
In addition to the murder charge, he was charged with four counts of misdemeanor obstruction of justice and four counts of felony witness intimidation. He also faces a charge of insurance fraud.
On Monday, the accused murderer was deemed a danger to his in-laws and children at the Gaston County Courthouse.
He was ordered to remain in jail after his bail was revoked, according to Law and crime.
While being held without bail for murder, he received $25,000 bail on charges related to harming his daughter and harassing his in-laws.
But even if his $25,000 bail is posted, he won’t get out of jail.
In an unrelated incident, Hunsucker allegedly set fire to a medical helicopter in 2019. He was charged with felony burning personal property.
In an unrelated incident, Hunsucker was arrested for setting fire to a helicopter in 2019.
While working as a paramedic, Hunsucker allegedly intentionally set fire to a syringe pump while flying over Charlotte.
Hunsucker was working as a paramedic aboard an Atrium Health patient transport helicopter when police say he intentionally set fire to a syringe pump while flying over Charlotte in November.
The helicopter was forced to land, which interfered with flight operations, officials said.
This incident came just a month after he was arrested in connection with his wife’s death.
The case involving Stacy has not yet gone to trial.
