Ex-Miss Switzerland Finalist Murdered: Husband Arrested in Surprising Case

A photograph of Kristina Joksimovic (L)/ Kristina Joksimovic along with her husband (R) (Supply: Instagram)

Swiss authorities have formally charged a person with the homicide of his spouse, Kristina Joksimovic, a former Miss Switzerland finalist, in what investigators have described as a horrific and meticulously carried out killing, in response to the New York Publish.

The 38-year-old mannequin and entrepreneur was discovered dismembered in her Binningen residence, close to Basel, in February 2024.

Her husband, recognized solely as Thomas in Swiss media to adjust to privateness legal guidelines, allegedly admitted to strangling her, the report quoted prosecutors as saying.

The Basel-Landschaft Public Prosecutor’s Workplace introduced Wednesday that Thomas is now dealing with formal homicide fees after finishing its investigation.

A trial date has but to be scheduled.

Courtroom paperwork and the post-mortem report obtained by the Every day Mail, as cited by the New York Publish, present a harrowing account of the killing and the extent of Joksimovic’s accidents.

Investigators discovered that Thomas allegedly used a mixture of instruments, together with a jigsaw, knives, and backyard shears, to dismember his spouse’s physique.

The post-mortem revealed that he additionally eliminated her womb, which was reportedly the one organ extracted from her torso.

Some physique components had been then reportedly chopped additional utilizing an industrial blender, “pureed,” and even dissolved in a chemical answer, authorities confirmed.

Courtroom paperwork point out that Thomas was allegedly watching YouTube movies on his cellphone whereas committing these acts.

The ugly discovery of Joksimovic’s stays was made by her father, who observed strands of blond hair protruding from a black bag within the laundry room, in response to a buddy quoted by the Every day Mail.

Investigators recovered the blender and several other of her stays, together with items of pores and skin with muscle nonetheless connected and chunks of bone.

The post-mortem report detailed that Thomas had allegedly snapped her hip joints, eliminated her higher left arm, forearms, and proper decrease leg, earlier than severing her backbone to decapitate her.

Thomas, 43, who fathered two daughters with Joksimovic, reportedly confessed in March that he killed her, claiming it was in self-defence after she allegedly attacked him with a knife.

Nonetheless, medical specialists discovered no proof supporting this declare, and the official explanation for loss of life was decided to be strangulation.

Police famous in court docket paperwork that Thomas demonstrated a “remarkably excessive degree of prison vitality, lack of empathy, and cold-bloodedness after killing his spouse,” as reported by native outlet Blick.

Joksimovic, who had been topped Miss Northwest Switzerland, was a 2007 finalist for Miss Switzerland.

Past her pageant profession, she ran her personal enterprise as a catwalk coach and had mentored mannequin Dominique Rinderknecht for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013.