A North Carolina man suspected of fatally killing his wife with eyedrops is now accused of attempting to poison their 11-year-old daughter with the same chemical, which resulted in her hospitalization, according to court filings.
Joshua Lee Hunsucker was arrested on Tuesday, and prosecutors have requested that his bond be revoked for fears that he is abusing and neglecting one of his children, neglecting another child, and intimidating witnesses in his murder case. According to court documents, prosecutors claimed that he has been “increasingly aggressive” and that his harmful acts will continue to rise.
Hunsucker, 40, is accused of poisoning his then-10-year-old daughter with eyedrops more than a year after allegedly killing his wife with the same drug. According to court filings, he placed the eye drops in his child’s beverage, and the chemical was discovered in their urine sample.
A medicine routinely used to treat depression but not recommended for children was also discovered in her blood. Court filings show that investigators discovered the narcotic in Hunsucker’s truck.
According to court documents, the 10-year-old was hospitalized due to low blood pressure, low heart rate, excessive tiredness, and sleepiness, as well as constricted blood vessels.
Prosecutors claimed Hunsucker poisoned his daughter in an attempt to implicate John and Susie Robinson, witnesses in his wife’s murder case. Hunsucker was indicted on Monday on four counts of intimidation and four counts of obstruction of justice, according to court records.
Prosecutors claimed that while his daughter was being treated, Hunsucker told medical experts that she appeared to have been given eyedrops, which “does not appear to be a reasonable conclusion based on the symptoms” she was displaying.
Hunsucker is accused of murdering his wife Stacy Robinson Hunsucker with tetrahydrozoline (eyedrops) and providing false information to an insurance company, saying his wife died “due to myocardial infarction when, in fact, it was due to homicide by poisoning,” according to court filings.
Joshua Hunsucker then cremated her and applied for her $250,000 life insurance policy two days after she died. According to court documents, he received an insurance claim of more than $200,000.
Stacy Hunsucker was an organ donor, thus a vial of her blood was stored after her death. When her husband raised suspicions about her death, an investigation was launched, and the blood sample was examined, finding a high concentration of eyedrops, according to court documents.
Joshua Hunsucker is suspected of putting eyedrops in her drinks over some time, causing her death. Joshua Hunsucker informed two coworkers before her murder that if he killed someone, he would do so using eyedrops, according to court filings.
He was detained in December 2019 and released after posting a $1.5 million bond. He has been wearing an ankle monitor and following a curfew.
According to court documents, Joshua Hunsucker is also accused of threatening or attempting to intimidate the Robinsons by sending a package to their home, filming and following them in public places, driving by their house regularly, and making vulgar gestures toward them in the parking lot of the church they attend, demanding that the charges against them be dropped.
Court documents show that Joshua Hunsucker falsely accused John Robinson of beating and kidnapping him.
He is accused of fabricating his kidnapping by falsely claiming that he stopped to replace a flat tire and was pistol-whipped in the head many times before his hands were zip-tied and injected with an unknown chemical. Hunsucker then accused him of attempting to “shift responsibility from the defendant to the Robinsons for his wife’s death,” according to court filings.