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Accused eye drop murderer appears in court

A man accused of fatally poisoning his wife with eye drops, setting a helicopter on fire, staging his own kidnapping, poisoning his daughter and molesting his wife's grieving parents remains jailed without bail as he awaits trial .

Joshua Lee Hunsucker, 40, is charged with first-degree murder, obtaining property under false pretenses and insurance fraud in the death of his wife, 32-year-old Stacy Hunsucker, who died in September 2018.

In 2021, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police charged Hunsucker with arson in connection with a November 2019 fire aboard a medical helicopter.

Hunsucker's bail was initially set at $1.5 million, and he posted that bail on December 24, 2019 and has remained out of jail.

Hunsucker was arrested again in early August, this time accused of engaging in a “pattern of harassment” toward John and Susie Robinson, Stacy's parents, according to a motion to revoke prepared by District Attorney Travis Page and Special Prosecutor R. Jordan Green Hunsucker's bail shows.

In February 2023, Hunsucker told police that he had been kidnapped, pistol-whipped, bound with a zip tie and injected with an unknown substance, blaming John Robinson for the attack.

On February 24, 2023, Hunsucker is accused of poisoning his then 10-year-old daughter by putting the same substance that killed his wife into a soda bottle his daughter was drinking from. Tests also revealed that there was another drug in his daughter's body that was not approved for children.

That drug was found in the back of Hunsucker's truck when police searched him after he reported he had been kidnapped, according to the bail revocation motion.

Hunsucker appeared in court Monday for a hearing related to the bond revocation motion. During the hearing, Hunsucker's attorney, David Teddy, said he had reached an agreement with prosecutors that Hunsucker would be held without bail on the first-degree murder charge and that he would receive a $25,000 bond on his new charges , four counts of intimidation of a witness and four counts of obstruction of justice. Even if he can make bail for his new charges, he will remain in prison.

District Attorney Travis Page said in court he hopes to try the Hunsucker case in 2025, but doesn't know exactly when because there are issues with evidence that still needs to be collected.

Specifically, police seized electronic devices from Hunsucker's home when he was charged on the new charges in August, and Teddy fears some of them may contain information protected by attorney-client privilege.

Teddy wants the information on the devices to be reviewed by people not involved in the case before it is passed on to police and prosecutors.

Additionally, prosecutors want to obtain DSS records about Hunsucker's children because hearings held in July may have contained information related to Hunsucker's case. Assistant District Attorney Kristen Northrup asked Superior Court Judge David Phillips to review the records to determine whether they can be released.

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