In a ghastly incident, a former Miss Switzerland finalist was brutally killed by her husband and pureed in a blender. Thirty-eight-year-old Kristina Joksimovic was allegedly strangled and dismembered with a jigsaw and garden shears.
Her body was found in February in Binningen, near Basel in Switzerland. As investigations began into the murder, the officials concluded that Kristina had been strangled before she died.
According to local media reports, the husband, known as pseudonym Thomas, has admitted to murdering his wife. His appeal for release from custody was rejected on Wednesday by the Federal Court in Lausanne.
The probe into the killing has found “concrete indications of mental illness”.
Thomas claims that he killed his wife in an act of self-defence as she attacked him with a knife. After murdering her, he reportedly said that he started to panic and so dismembered his wife. However, according to Swiss outlet FM1 Today, a medical-forensic report “contradicts his description of self-defence”.
An autopsy found the brutal manner in which the model’s body was dismembered. The husband took the body into the laundry room where he used a jigsaw, knife and garden shears to carry out the terrible act.
According to reports by the local outlet Blick, he then chopped her up with a hand blender, and “pureed” and dissolved the body parts in a chemical solution.
Investigators say Thomas lacked “empathy” and was “cold-blooded” after killing his wife and following efforts to cover up her death. The defendant had “sadistic-sociopathic traits”, they said.
Couple’s marital life
Kristina’s remains were found by a “third party” and a day after it, Thomas was arrested.
The couple got married in 2017 and lived an affluent life in a “spacious semi-detached house”, 20 Minuten reported. They took vacations and Kristina had posted pictures of a getaway on Instagram just four weeks before the murder.
However, some reports quoting a friend state that their relationship has been “in crisis for months”. Reportedly, the police was once called out over reports of physical violence.