A former Miss Switzerland finalist was strangled to death and ‘pureed’ by her ‘sadistic’ husband in a blender, officials say.
Kristina Joksimovic, 38, was found dead on February 13 inside the laundry room of her home in Binningen, about two miles southwest of Basel, Switzerland.
The mother of two’s husband, named only as ‘Thomas’ by Swiss media, confessed to the killing during a crime reconstruction the following month.
He had appealed for his release – claiming he acted in self-defence and dismembered his wife ‘in a panic’ – but a federal court in Lausanne court rejected it on Wednesday.
An autopsy report found Kristina had been strangled before being dismembered using a jigsaw blade, knife and garden shears inside the laundry room. Several body parts were pureed in a blender and dissolved in a chemical, the court’s judgement said according to the Swiss newspaper bz Basel.
There are ‘concrete indications of a mental illness’ in Thomas, with investigators describing him as having ‘sadistic tendencies’. Thomas had a ‘noticeably high level of criminal energy, lack of empathy and cold-bloodedness after killing his wife’.
Prosecutors added that the man had choked an ex-partner and pushed her up against the wall.
