US EditionEx–Miss Switzerland Finalist Murdered: Husband Charged After Dismembering, Blending and Hiding Remains
The husband admitted to strangling Kristina Joksimovic and dismembering her body with an industrial blender, according to Basel-Landschaft prosecutors.
- On Wednesday, the Basel-Landschaft Public Prosecutor's Office charged Thomas, the husband of Kristina Joksimovic, former model and Miss Switzerland finalist, with her murder after concluding its investigation.
- In February 2024, authorities discovered Joksimovic dismembered in her Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland home, with investigators recovering remains and a blender at the scene.
- Autopsy and court documents show the body was dismembered with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears; parts were pureed in an industrial blender and the victim's womb was removed as the only organ.
- No trial date has been set as Thomas reportedly admitted killing her in March to protect himself after an alleged knife attack, but medical experts found strangulation and no self-defence evidence.
- Her public profile and the case's brutality have driven media coverage, as Kristina Joksimovic, Miss Northwest Switzerland and 2007 Miss Switzerland finalist, was a well-known model and coach.
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A 43-year-old Swiss was formally accused of killing the 38-year-old, former finalist of Miss Switzerland, Kristina Joksimovic, trying to tear her apart, removing her uterus, trying to destroy her body parts by throwing them into a blender with a chemical compound. The devastated woman's body was found in the house where the two lived in Binningen, near Basel, on February 13, 2024. As the BBC reports, the Basel Public Prosecutor's Office closed t…
Ex–Miss Switzerland finalist murdered: Husband charged after dismembering, blending and hiding remains
Swiss authorities have charged the husband of former Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic with her murder after investigators recovered her dismembered remains from their home earlier this year.
Swiss investigators accused him of strangling and then dismembering this mother of two children, a former candidate for Miss Switzerland, before attempting to remove her body in conditions of extreme violence.
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