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Miss Switzerland finalist strangled to death, then ‘pureed’ in a blender by her husband: officials
By Patrick Reilly,
9 hours ago
Warning: Disturbing content
A former Miss Switzerland finalist was strangled to death and savagely dismembered by her husband, who then “pureed” her remains in a blender, Swiss officials revealed.
Kristina Joksimovic, 38, was found slain in her home in February in Binningen, near the city of Basel in Switzerland.
Her 41-year-old husband, who was only referred to as “Thomas” in local media reports, was taken into custody but had appealed for his release, which was rejected on Wednesday by the country’s federal court in Lausanne after he confessed to the killing.
Joksimovic was found dead in her home on Feb. 13. Her husband, “Thomas,” was charged. Kristina Joksimovic/Instagram
The ruling, which brought horrific new details about the murder to light, said the ongoing investigation has revealed “concrete indications of a mental illness” in the case, according to Swiss outlet BZ Basel .
Joksimovic’s butchered body was discovered on the night of Feb. 13.
Joksimovic’s husband is charged with killing her then chopping up her body. Kristina Joksimovic/Instagram
The model’s husband and father of their two daughters admitted that he killed her in March, but said it was to protect himself after she had previously attacked him with a knife.
However, medical experts found no evidence of self defense and identified her cause of death as strangulation.
Joksimovic’s body was then dismembered with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears, according to an autopsy report obtained by the outlet.
The couple had two daughters together. Kristina Joksimovic/Instagram
Several of her body parts were then chopped up with a hand blender, “pureed” and dissolved in a chemical solution, according to the report.
Thomas was arrested the day after her body was found, initially telling investigators the month prior that he had found her dead and dismembered her body in their laundry room in a panic.
Joksimovic’s husband admitted to killing her in March, although he claimed it was in self defense. Kristina Joksimovic/Instagram
Thomas showed “a noticeably high level of criminal energy, lack of empathy and cold-bloodedness after killing his wife” and trying to cover it up, prosecutors said in Wednesday’s update.
Prosecutors also revealed that he had strangled his wife before. A former partner also alleged he once grabbed the beauty queen by the neck and slammed her head into a wall.
Joksimovic was crowned Miss Northwest Switzerland pageant and in 2007 was a finalist for Miss Switzerland, according to 20 Minuten.
She later ran her own business as a catwalk coach, and mentored model Dominique Rinderknecht for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013.
“It’s terrible. I’m really shocked,” former Miss Switzerland Christa Rigozzi, who was friendly with Joksimovic, told the outlet after she was killed.
“I’m thinking of her two daughters. She was such a beautiful and kind-hearted woman,” Rigozzi said.
Thomas was a successful entrepreneur, and their family lived in a large home with a picturesque view overlooking Basel.
They posed as a picture-perfect family on social media, according to 20 Minuten, with an Instagram post just weeks before Joksimovic’s death showing her and Thomas on a “couple’s getaway” on Lake Lucerne.
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he's a total evil,just evil to strangel her then cut her up the way he did,I'm surprised he didn't hurt the children.please give thar man life or better yet death.
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