A former Miss Switzerland finalist was allegedly strangled and dismembered with a jigsaw and garden shears before being pureed in a blender by her husband.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The body of 38-year-old model Kristina Joksimovic was found in February in Binningen, near Basel in Switzerland.
Her husband, who was only named by pseudonym Thomas in local media, 41, had an appeal for release from custody rejected today by the Federal Court in Lausanne after admitting to having killed his wife.
WHAT INVESTIGATION REVEALS
An ongoing investigation concluded Wednesday said that there were ‘concrete indications of mental illness‘ underlying the case.
Kristina, the mother of their two children, was allegedly killed because she had previously come at him with a knife, dismembering her body ‘in a panic’.
HOW KRISTINA WAS FOUND
Kristina’s body was found on the evening of February 13.
Investigators determined that Kristina had been strangled before she died.
The verdict states the suspect confessed to strangling his wife.
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AUTOPSY
An autopsy concluded that the body was then dismembered in the laundry room with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears.
Body parts were then chopped up with a hand blender, ‘pureed’ and dissolved in a chemical solution, local outlet Blick reported.
A medical-forensic report also ‘contradicts his description of self-defence’, according to Swiss outlet FM1 Today.
Thomas was reportedly arrested a day after her remains were found by a ‘third party’ in February.
