A former North Carolina paramedic accused of killing his wife with eyedrops has now been charged with poisoning his daughter and staging a kidnapping in an attempt to implicate his in-laws in the murder.

Joshua Lee Hunsucker, 39, was indicted on Monday on four counts of witness intimidation and four counts of obstruction of justice, the Gaston Gazette reported.

Hunsucker is awaiting trial on charges of  first degree murder, obtaining property by false pretense, and insurance fraud in the 2018 death of Stacy Hunsucker, 32, as CrimeOnline reported. He has also been charged with arson for allegedly setting a fire aboard a medical helicopter about a month before he was arrested for his wife’s death.

Stacy Hunsucker’s death was originally ruled from natural causes, and her husband refused to allow an autopsy and had her body cremated almost immediately and promptly filed for her $250,000 life insurance payout. But because she was an organ donor, several blood samples were taken, and those samples revealed tetrahydrozoline, found in over-the-counter eye drops and nasal sprays, at levels 30 to 40 times the standard therapeutic dosage, more than enough to trigger a heart attack.

Hunsucker was arrested just before Christmas 2019 and released on a $1.5 million bond. He was fired by his employer, Atrium Health, after the arrest.

According to the Gazette, prosecutors said in a motion to revoke bond that Hunsucker told police in February 2023 that he’d been kidnapped, pistol whipped, and injected with some kind of unknown substance and blamed John Robinson, his wife’s father, for the attack. Investigators subsequently found no evidence to support Hunsucker’s claim.

Also that month, the prosecutors wrote, Hunsucker’s 10-year-old daughter was hospitalized, and doctors found tetrahydrozoline and another drug — not approved for children — in her system. Investigators found that drug in Hunsucker’s truck when they searched it after the alleged kidnapping.

In the new court filing, the prosecutors say Hunsucker has continually harassed his dead wife’s parents in an attempt to remove them from his daughter’s life.

The filing accuse him of videoing and photographing the girl’s grandparents at her lacrosse practices, sending packages to their home, demanding they stop pushing the murder charges against him, making vulgar gestures at them in public places, following them to church, and frequently driving by their home.

“The state believes that the defendant’s dangerous actions will continue to escalate,” Page and Green wrote. “The state has great concern for the safety of (Hunsucker’s children) and Mr. and Mrs. Robinson.”

The court filing also accuses him of abusing and neglecting both the daughter who was poisoning and his other child.

Hunsucker was booked on the new charges on Tuesday and remains behind bars, jail records show.

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[Featured image: Joshua Hunsucker/Gaston County Sheriff’s Office and Stacy Hunsucker/obituary photo]