Miss Switzerland finalist ‘pureed in blender by husband after he strangled her’

A former Miss Switzerland finalist was strangled to death and ‘pureed’ by her ‘sadistic’ husband in a blender, officials say.

Kristina Joksimovic, 38, was found dead on February 13 inside the laundry room of her home in Binningen, about two miles southwest of Basel, Switzerland.

The mother of two’s husband, named only as ‘Thomas’ by Swiss media, confessed to the killing during a crime reconstruction the following month.

He had appealed for his release – claiming he acted in self-defence and dismembered his wife ‘in a panic’ – but a federal court in Lausanne court rejected it on Wednesday.

An autopsy report found Kristina had been strangled before being dismembered using a jigsaw blade, knife and garden shears inside the laundry room.

Several body parts were pureed in a blender and dissolved in a chemical, the court’s judgement said according to the Swiss newspaper bz Basel.

The Miss Switzerland pageant finalist tried to attack him with a knife, Thomas claimed. Though medical-forensic reports contradict this.

There are ‘concrete indications of a mental illness’ in Thomas, with investigators describing him as having ‘sadistic tendencies’.

Thomas had a ‘noticeably high level of criminal energy, lack of empathy and cold-bloodedness after killing his wife’.

Prosecutors added that the man had choked an ex-partner and pushed her up against the wall.

Thomas had earlier applied for release from custody at the Basel-Landschaft Coercive Measures Court only for judges to reject his plea.

He took his case to a cantonal court, akin to a county, which also rejected him, leading him to try his appeal at a federal level.

One friend of the family told Blick in February that the couple were ‘in a crisis’ for months.

‘To me, they seemed like the perfect family,’ the friend said.

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