North Carolina paramedic poisoned his wife and daughter - then tried to blame his in-laws

An ex-paramedic is accused of using eyedrops to poison his wife and daughter only to then try pin the atrocities on his in-laws.

Joshua Lee Hunsucker, 39, has been charged over the death of his wife Stacy, 32, in 2018 and sending his 11-year-old daughter to the hospital in 2023.

Hunsucker was originally arrested on a first-degree murder charge in December, 2019 - over a year after Stacy died in their Mount Holly home.

Her was initially ruled a heart attack, but alarms were raised by Stacy's mother, Suzie Robinson, who claimed her son-in-law was acting suspiciously and had been cheating.

Once Stacy died, Hunsucker refused an autopsy, acted quickly to have her cremated and collected $250,000 in insurance money.

According to an affidavit from his wife's death, Joshua gave different versions of where he was before he discovered 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 his refusal to have her body looked over by a coroner, Hunsucker, a blood sample was preserved because Stacy was an organ donor.

An insurance investigation was launched following outcry from Stacy's mother. Hunsucker's co-workers at Atrium Health's MedCenter Air, were interviewed who said they were surprised how unaffected he seemed by his wife's death.

They were also shocked by how fast he began publicly dating another girlfriend less than six months after his wife's death.

But he was bailed out of jail when his $1.5million bond was posted just before Christmas in 2019 and has since gone to great lengths to try and frame his in-laws for Stacy's death.

He was arrested again in August for allegedly spiking his then-10-year-old daughter's drink with the same toxic ingredient - tetrahydrozoline, found in Visine eyedrops - leaving her hospitalized in September 2023.

According to ABC 7 , the girl suffered from low blood pressure, low heart rate, severe exhaustion and constricted blood vessels.

By allegedly poisoning his daughter, investigators believe he was trying to incriminate the devastated grandparents.

Hunsucker is also accused of staging his own kidnaping in February 2023 and blaming it on 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 pistol-whipped in the head multiple times.

'His hands were then zip tied and he was injected with an unknown substance.'

Along with harassing and following the Robinsons, reports of Hunsucker abusing and neglecting the daughter he poisoned and neglecting his other daughter, nine, came to light.

In addition to the murder charge, he was hit with four counts of misdemeanor obstruct justice and four counts of felony intimidate witness. He is also faced with an insurance fraud charge.

On Monday, the accused murderer was deemed a danger to his in-laws and his children at the Gaston County Courthouse.

He was ordered to stay in jail after his bail was revoked, according to Law & Crime .

While he is being held without bond for murder, he received a $25,000 bond for the charged related to harming his daughter and harassing his in-laws.

But even if his $25,000 bond is paid, he will not be released from jail.

In an unrelated incident, Hunsucker allegedly set a medical helicopter on fire in 2019. He was charged with felony burning personal property.

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 in flight over Charlotte that November.

The helicopter was forced to land, interfering with flight operations, authorities said.

This incident came just a month after he was arrested in connection to his wife's death.

The case involving Stacy has yet to go to trial.