Chilling new details have emerged of the gruesome murder of a former Miss Switzerland contestant who was blended up by her husband.
Kristina Joksimovic, 38, a mother-of-two, was found dead at her home in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland, in February this year. Her husband, identified only as Thomas in local reports, was arrested the following day.
The shocking death of the ex-beauty queen has made global headlines after a post-mortem examination revealed her body had been dismembered with a jigsaw, knife, and garden shears after she was strangled.
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It’s alleged her husband then put parts of her body into an industrial-strength blender and a mixed chemical solution, reducing her to a ‘puree’ like substance. Fresh court documents obtained by MailOnline suggest that the 41-year-old husband had “carefully” removed her womb from her torso as he dismembered her body in the house’s laundry room.
This “deliberate mutilation or ritualised degradation of the body” is being used as evidence that Thomas may have a mental disorder, according to the court. Investigators claim phone data shows that Thomas was watching YouTube videos on his phone while he was dismembering Kristina’s body.
The post-mortem examination revealed Kristina had suffered blunt force trauma before her death, with injuries including cuts on her cheek, under her eyebrow and nose, as well as multiple bruises on her right lower leg, foot, shoulder blades and the back of her head.
Experts who reviewed the case believe Thomas used a jigsaw tool, a knife and garden shears to dismember her body, then disposed of different parts in an industrial blender and chemical solution, reports the Mirror.
A “large number” of skin flaps with attached “pieces of muscle and bone” were also found by investigators. The autopsy showed Kristina’s hip joints had been dislocated and her left upper arm, forearms and right lower leg had been separated.
Her upper spine was severed and her torso was split in half above the pelvis. Thomas claimed he dismembered Kristina in their laundry room “in a panic” after she attacked him with a knife.
However, the court dismissed this account, citing the “planned and systematic approach over several hours” and his use of “special tools and chemicals” to eliminate evidence.
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Kristina Joksimovic, 38, was crowned Miss Northwest Switzerland in a local beauty contest in 2003 and made it to the final round of the Miss Switzerland pageant in 2008. She later became a mother to two children and built a career mentoring aspiring runway models.
Shocked tributes have been flooding in following the untimely death of a beloved figure. The reigning Miss Switzerland, Lorena Santen, was stricken with grief as she said: “We will miss you so much.”
Similarly, Christa Rigozzi, a former Miss Switzerland, said: “It’s terrible. I’m really shocked. I’m thinking of her two daughters. She was such a beautiful and kind-hearted woman. It is very, very sad and shocking what has happened. I am also so incredibly sorry for the children.”
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