Bern:In a horrific incident, former model and Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic was strangled to death and savagely dismembered by her husband, who then pureed her remains in a blender and dissolved them in acid. Joksimovic, 38, was found dead at her home in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland, in February this year and the shocking details came to light when her husband, identified as “Thomas”, confessed to murdering his wife, with whom he had two children.
According to Sky News, the Federal Court in Lausanne on Wednesday denied Thomas, 41, an appeal to be released from prison after he reportedly confessed to murdering his wife, with whom he had two children. The husband had admitted to the murder during a crime reconstruction in March and claimed it was self-defense after she reportedly attacked him with a knife.
Local outlet BZ Bazel reported that Thomas, a Swiss national, was arrested the day after Joksimovic’s body was found on February 13 and initially told investigators that he had found her dead and dismembered her body in the laundry room in a state of panic. Medical experts found no evidence of self-defense and identified the cause of her death as strangulation.
Horrifying details of Joksimovic’s murder emerge
According to the autopsy report, Joksimovic’s body was dismembered with a jigsaw, a knife and pruning shears. Various parts of his body were then chopped up with a blender, “puréed” and dissolved in a chemical solution. “It’s terrible. I’m really in shock,” said former Miss Switzerland Christa Rigozzi, a friend of Joksimovic.
The gruesome details of the murder case emerged in a ruling that said the ongoing investigation had uncovered “concrete indications of mental illness” related to the case, according to BZ Bazel. Thomas showed “a remarkably high level of criminal energy, lack of empathy and cold-bloodedness after killing his wife” and trying to cover it up, prosecutors said.
This is not the first case of violence involving the couple. Thomas was reported to have attacked his wife several times in the past, as a former model claimed he once grabbed Joksimovic by the neck and slammed her head against a wall. Police had previously been called in response to reports of physical violence.
The couple, who married in 2017, lived in a spacious terraced house with panoramic views in an affluent area of Basel. Joksimovic was crowned Miss Northwest Switzerland and in 2007 was a finalist in Miss Switzerland. Her husband, a successful businessman, has two daughters with her.
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