A North Carolina husband poisons his wife with spiked eye drops and allegedly does the same thing to his tween daughter to frame a pair of witnesses.
Husband poisons wife with eye drops
Prosecutors claim Joshua Lee Hunsucker, 40, poisoned his 11-year-old daughter to frame John and Susie Robinson, his former in-laws, who are witnesses in the case against Hunsucker related to his wife’s death, as per court documents.
According to ABC News, prosecutors allege Hunsucker, a paramedic, killed his wife Stacy in September 2018 by adding eye drops to her drinks and then provided false information to an insurance company to claim a payout exceeding $200,000.
Hunsucker’s cremated her remains then told the insurance company that his wife died “due to myocardial infarction,” as noted in court documents.
Due to his wife being an organ donor, a vial of her blood was preserved, which investigators found to contain a high concentration of eye drops.
Court documents revealed that Hunsucker allegedly told two colleagues before his wife’s death that if he was going to kill someone, he would use eye drops as the method.
The same method that was allegedly used by the Hunsucker to poison his young daughter in February 2023, in an attempt to frame his wife’s parents for her murder and “remove the Robinsons from the lives of his daughters.”
A urine sample from the daughter tested positive for eye drop solution, and her blood sample contained a drug commonly prescribed to adults with depression, which investigators reportedly found in Hunsucker’s truck.
Prosecutors alleged that he attempted to intimidate the Robinsons with harassment and false accusations of assault and kidnapping. The same month he allegedly poisoned his daughter, he accused John of drugging, assaulting, and attempting to kidnap him. Police discovered no evidence to corroborate his claims.
Hunsucker was arrested by police in 2019 and posted a $1.5 million bond to go free. Prosecutors filed a motion to revoke his bond due to fears his “dangerous actions” will continue to escalate.
He was charged with four counts of intimidation and four counts of obstruction of justice on this week.
Wife poisons husband’s Mountain Dew
In another case, a woman from Missouri has been charged with attempting to poison her husband’s Mountain Dew because he “didn’t appreciate” her efforts.
Michelle Peters, 47, was arrested on charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
Peters is allegedly added toxic weed killer Roundup to her husband’s favorite soda multiple times between May and June.
Video evidence her husband brought to police displayed Peters dosing the soda with insecticide, as reported by the Laclede County Sheriff’s Office.
The husband began noticing that his favored drink tasted different, but kept on chugging. He soon began suffering symptoms such as a sore throat, coughing up mucus, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting.
Suspecting tampering due to his illness and being the only one in the home who drank Mountain Dew, he became suspicious of his wife
When he accused her, she allegedly told him his taste had changed due to COVID-19, told him to keep a distance from their grandchildren.
That’s when he checked their home cameras and discovered video footage of his wife putting the poison in his sodas.
When police interviewed her, Peters admitted to mixing Roundup with the soda, so she could use it as a weed killer on their lawn, and claimed she mistakenly thought the Mountain Dew was a bottle of insecticide, despite being in the garage refrigerator.
Peters eventually fessed up to officers, telling them her husband was selfish, and their relationship had issues.
She was supposedly mad at him for not appreciating the 50th birthday party she organized for him and poisoned his Mountain Dew to be “mean” to him.
The victim believes she was more money hungry than mean, as he has a $500,000 life insurance policy that she is the beneficiary of.
Husband poisons wife for insurance payout
A former Mayo Clinic medical resident accused of poisoning his wife reportedly began referring to himself as a widower while she was still alive.
Connor Bowman, 30, reportedly searched for the gender-neutral term for “widow” two days before allegedly offing his wife Betty.
“There were numerous Google searches of evidentiary value, including one on [August 18, 2023], two days before Betty died,” a search warrant stated.
“These searches, and other conversations identified so far appeared consistent with the statements provided by witnesses during the investigation, that Connor was identifying himself as a widower, even before Betty died,” the document read.
Additional search warrants revealed that Bowman was using dating apps before Betty’s body was cold.
He matched with one woman nine days after her death, and reportedly told her about the huge life insurance payout he was about to receive.
A different woman told the cops Bowman said his wife had died a year prior from a morphine overdose, while a third woman was informed that she died from listeria poisoning.
How Betty Bowman died
Betty, a 32-year-old pharmacist, died on August 20, 2023, after being admitted to the Mayo Clinic’s St. Mary’s Hospital with stomach pain.
Her initial symptoms resembled food poisoning, she declined steadily, with fluid accumulating in her lungs, heart problems, and a partial colon removal. Four days after being admitted into the hospital, she died of organ failure.
Bowman declined an autopsy of her body and tried to have Betty cremated right away.
The Southeast Medical Examiner’s Office reported Bowman’s actions and Betty’s death as suspicious, after he asked about her toxicology results.
Bowman’s coworkers and Betty’s friends told the police that the less-than-grieving husband said his wife died from hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and even listed it as the cause of her death in her obituary.
One of Betty’s friends told the police that she had been “a healthy person” and the marriage was headed towards divorce due to cheating and other issues.
The couple had separate bank accounts because of Bowman’s medical school loans, and a friend reported that he was about to cash in on Betty’s $500,000 life insurance policy.
