A North Carolina man accused of using eye drops to fatally poison his wife in 2018 entered a not guilty plea to new charges after prosecutors say he staged his own kidnapping.
Prosecutors said Joshua Hunsucker, a 41-year-old former paramedic, systematically killed his wife, Stacy Robinson Hunsucker, with eyedrops – which contain the chemical tetrahydrozoline – and lied about her cause of death to land a $250,000 staged kidnapping and claiming his in-laws injected him with an unknown substance.
But he was hauled back into court in August 2024 to answer to new allegations that also attempted to poison his daughter, who was then 10, using the same method.
Prosecutors demanded the revocation of his bail package, which a judge granted.
Hunsucker has requested that his trial be moved out of Gaston County due to the intense media coverage. A trial date for the murder case is still being finalized.