A Mount Holly man used Visine to poison his wife, causing her death in September 2018, a special prosecutor told a Gaston County judge Friday afternoon.
Joshua Lee Hunsucker, 35, of 304 Eastwood Drive, was arrested and booked into the Gaston County Jail at 6:25 p.m. Thursday, charged with the first-degree murder of Stacy Robinson Hunsucker, who he had been married to for eight years.
During his first appearance in court Friday, Hunsucker appeared before District Court Judge James Jackson wearing an orange, short-sleeved jumpsuit with the words Gaston County Inmate in black across the back.
He showed little emotion when Jackson set his bond at $1.5 million.
Special agents with the North Carolina Department of Insurance had been investigating Joshua Hunsucker in May after Stacy Robinson Hunsucker’s mother, Suzie Robinson, made an allegation of insurance fraud by her former son-in-law resulting from the suspicious death of her daughter.
Upon his wife’s death, Joshua Hunsucker had received $250,000 as the beneficiary on her two life insurance policies.
According to information provided in an affidavit for a search warrant, Suzie’s Robinson’s beliefs stemmed from a relationship that Joshua was allegedly having with a girlfriend prior to her daughter’s death.
According to investigators, Joshua’s co-workers at Atrium Health’s MedCenter Air, where he had served as a lead paramedic since 2013, were also surprised how unaffected he seemed by his wife’s death. They were also shocked by how fast he had another girlfriend less than six months after his wife’s death.
According to the affidavit, Joshua Hunsucker gave different versions of where he was before he discovered his wife slumped over, not breathing and blue, at their home on Sept. 23, 2018. He had told investigators he was seated at the kitchen table, with his back to her, working on his computer, when he turned around to see her slumped over on the couch.