An preschool teacher became the mother of her stay at home for two young girls, Stacy Hunsucker liked to fill the free time she had with artistic projects and watch sports on television.
“She did a lot of clever things, like making small painted wooden panels,” said her friend Shellie O'Day, who stopped at Mount Holly, in North Carolina, Stacy shared with her husband, Joshua, a flight paramedical, and their daughters Piper and Willow in the summer of 2018 to take a “welcome” sign for $ 50.
The pair focused for a few minutes, discussing their lives and their plans. “She was trying to lose a little weight, which, after having children and being a little older, becomes hard,” recalls O'Day. “It was a normal and daily conversation. She seemed good. “
However, about six weeks later, Stacy's apparent health and apparent happiness took a drastic turn for the worst. On September 23, 2018, Joshua, 40, called 911 and told agents who replied that he had found that his 32 -year -old wife “does not breathe and blue” on his return to check that their vehicles were locked up after hearing a wave of car flights in the neighborhood.
Stacy was declared dead of an apparent heart attack. Externally, Joshua seemed moderate by his loss – but his behavior in the days following the raised eyebrows. The authorities say that Joshua refused to allow a coroner to carry out an autopsy, declaring that he did not want his wife “to be cut”, even if Stacy had registered to be organ donor. In two days, Stacy’s body was cremated and Joshua filed a $ 250,000 life insurance policy.
Stacy Hunsucker and his daughters Piper and Willow.
Included by Stacy's mother, Suzie Robinson, that Joshua had a relationship with a colleague, insurance investigators launched an investigation in Stacy's death. State authorities then discovered that Joshua had given contradictory accounts of his place before finding his unconscious wife, telling a friend that he had gone to walk to burn energy but another that he was in the backyard cutting wood. In a third story, says Robinson, his son -in -law said that he was working on his computer with his back to Stacy when he turned around and noticed it on the side of their sofa.
By learning that Stacy was an organ donor, the officials acquired a search warrant and analyzed a sample of routine blood which was drawn after the death of Stacy and kept by the laboratory of organ donors. They made an alarming discovery: his blood had high levels of active ingredient in the eye drops, tetrahydrozoline, a chemical which, if ingested, can cause cardiac arrest.
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On December 19, 2019, Joshua was arrested and accused of first -degree murder and insurance fraud. Prosecutors now believe that he started poisoning his wife with eyes for the eyes in his drinks “over a period of time led to his death”, according to court documents. Joshua pleaded not guilty and was released on bail of $ 1.5 million.
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The news of the arrest of Joshua has shook the placid and tight community of Hunsuckers. “I was shocked,” says O'Day. “I said to myself:” If I wrote 10 people I knew I thought I would commit a crime, it would not even be a glimpse of my brain. I would never have thought that, never. “”
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Joshua Hunsucker in court
Lycée lovers were married to Myrtle Beach, SC, in 2010. At home in Mount Holly, Stacy worked as a teacher at First Methodist Church Preschool, as a parajurist in two law firms, then as a full -time home, while Joshua, a former university football player, became a paramedic Health helicopters Health. On evenings, Stacy and Joshua went to concerts and barbecus with friends. “Just a nice couple,” says O'Day. “I never heard them discuss.”
But in more than a decade together, the Hunsuckers underwent several setbacks. According to reports citing a Gofundme page now disabled, Stacy began to encounter unpertified medical problems in 2013 after the birth of her first daughter, Piper. Months later, a fire at home has destroyed many of their personal effects. The following year, Stacy was hospitalized for low blood pressure and a low heart rate after giving birth to his second daughter, Willow. She was admitted again for months later and had an implanted cardiac stimulator.
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“After many tests, doctors are always perplexed on what is happening,” wrote the organizer of GoFundme.
After Stacy's death, Joshua's colleagues would have told investigators that Joshua seemed to be “unchanged” and “quickly advanced” with a new girlfriend, who became an element of the house he once shared with Stacy.
“It was everywhere on her all the time,” said Baby-Sitter Kailyn Macdonald, who started working for Joshua for months after Stacy's death. “They talked about moving together in a house – not this house, but buying a house together.” Macdonald remembers that Joshua has rarely talked about his deceased spouse. “He never said:” I miss Stacy “or” their mother I miss “. I don't understand that.
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After Joshua was released from the guard, relations with Stacy's parents – who have submitted an unjustified death trial against him and have since looked for custody of Piper, now 12 years old, and Willow, now 10 years old – who have the most time. The authorities claim that Joshua “has embarked on a harassment scheme” addressed to Suzie and John Robinson. His strange behavior included the recording and photography of the couple to Piper butt, making vulgar gestures towards them in public and dragging in the parking lot of their church while they attended the services.
On February 4, 2023, the authorities attest, Joshua falsely reported to the police that he had been “whipped with the pistol in the head”, linked to the zipper and injected with an unknown chemical of John after Joshua stopped on the side of a road to change a flat tire. But the authorities say they could not find evidence in support of his complaint. They believe that Joshua simulated the kidnapping to “change the responsibility” of Stacy's death to his parents, according to a request to revoke his link.
Chanché, 20 days after the supposed incident on the side of the road, say that Joshua tried to poison the elder girl Piper by putting “the same substance that killed his wife” in a bottle of drink. The alleged poisoning, said the prosecutors, was “withdrawn once again with an attempt to involve Mr. and Mrs. Robinson in the death of his wife and to remove the Robinsons from the life of his daughters,” according to the motion. The Piper system was also found a drug against depression which is not prescribed for children – the same drug investigators claim to have found in a bag in Joshua's truck when he filed the removal report against his stepfather.
Joshua was again arrested on August 6, 2024 and accused of intimidation of witnesses and obstruction to justice. He is now awaiting the trial at Gaston County prison. Meanwhile, the relatives of Stacy remain sad and perplexed by his death. “Stacy has always been such a kind and loving person,” said Philip Smith, a member of his church. “She only brought goodness wherever she went.”
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