Kristina Joksimovic, a 38-year-old former Miss Switzerland finalist, was allegedly strangled and dismembered by her 41-year-old husband.
According to reports, the husband used a jigsaw and garden shears to dismember Joksimovic, and then allegedly pureed her remains in a blender.
The couple, who married in 2017, resided in a spacious semi-detached house in an affluent area of Basel, and had two children together.
Kristina’s body was found in February in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland.
Kristina had posted pictures of a ‘couple’s getaway’ on her Instagram account four weeks before her death.
Her husband, identified only by the pseudonym Thomas in local media, had his appeal for release from custody rejected on Thursday by the Federal Court in Lausanne after admitting to killing his wife.
An ongoing investigation has revealed ‘concrete indications of mental illness’ underlying the case.
Kristina’s husband is reported to have claimed he killed her in self-defence after she allegedly came at him with a knife, before later admitting he dismembered the former model.
Kristina’s body was found on the evening of February 13.
Investigators determined she had been strangled before dying.
The verdict states the suspect confessed to strangling his wife.
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, a Swiss national, was reportedly arrested a day after her remains were found.
Investigators have said Thomas, a businessman, displayed a ‘conspicuously high level of criminal energy’ in their assessment.
They cited a ‘lack of empathy and cold-bloodedness after killing his wife’, and his efforts to cover up her death, adding that the defendant exhibited ‘sadistic-sociopathic traits’.
The deceased won the Miss Northwest Switzerland pageant in 2003 and was a finalist in the 2008 Miss Switzerland competition.
