Miss Switzerland finalist is ‘strangled and pureed in a blender by her husband’

Remains of 38-year-old model Kristina Joksimovic were found in February in Binningen, near Basel in Switzerland

Her husband, identified only as ‘Thomas’, 41, used a jigsaw and garden shears to dismember victim, the court complaint said

Thomas who shares two children with Kristina allegedly, admitted to killing his wife because she had previously come at him with a knife, dismembering her body ‘in a panic’

Killer claims killed his wife .e 38-year-old was found dead at her home outside of Basel in February

Thomas [right], police said, strangled and pureed’ his model wife, Kristina Joksimovic, [left], in a blender. It is alleged that he admitted to having killed his wife, claiming self defense

The Federal Court in Lausanne, Switzerland Thursday, heard how a model and mother-of-two became a victim of intimate partner violence [IPV].
The ‘dismembered body of 38-year-old model Kristina Joksimovic, was found in February in Binningen, near Basel in Switzerland. The former Miss Switzerland finalist, was allegedly strangled and dismembered with a jigsaw and garden shears before being pureed in a blender by her husband, who was identified in court only by pseudonym, ‘Thomas’.
The 41-year-old suspect who has confessed to killing his wife, filed an appeal for release from custody, which was rejected by the court at Thursday’s hearing.
According to a judgment of the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne published on Wednesday ruled on the matter of an ongoing investigation into the suspect’s mental health, concluding today, that there were ‘concrete indications of mental illness’ underlying the case. 
The Federal Supreme Court dismissed a complaint from the accused, ending his odyssey of failed submissions for early release which earlier failed at the lower courts in Basel-Landschaft.
The suspect’s subsequent appeal to the cantonal court, also failed. When his prayer was not granted there, he and finally appealed to the Federal Supreme Court.
Thomas admitted to killing his wife, but ‘in self defense,’ according to local media, who quote the suspect as saying Kristina, was killed because she had previously come at him with a knife.
He then dismembered her body ‘in a panic’.

Murder suspect Thomas claims he killed his wife Kristina Joksimovic, [photo], killed because she had previously come at him with a knife, and he dismembered her body ‘in a panic’. Her body was found on the evening of February 13, and her husband has been charged

Thomas initially claimed that he found Kristina dead, he then dismembered the body “in panic” in the laundry room.
A medical-forensic report also ‘contradicted his description of self-defense’.
The autopsy report contradicted his version. The report ruled that Kristina died by strangulation.
The court’s verdict upheld the prosecution submission that the suspect confessed to strangling his wife, with the autopsy report concluding that the body was then dismembered in the laundry room with a jigsaw blade, knife and garden shears.

Kristina Joksimovic and her husband shared two young daughters

Kristina Joksimovic’s body parts were then chopped up with a hand blender, ‘pureed’ and dissolved in a chemical solution, local outlet Blick, reported.
Thomas was reportedly arrested a day after her remains were found by a ‘third party’ in February.
The couple lived overlooking scenic views from a ‘spacious semi-detached house’ looking over Basel.

Kristina, a Binningen native with Serbian roots, had reportedly switched from modelling to become a catwalk coach. She coached the next generation of models for pageants, as well as businesswomen

Expressing their shock at the news one friends told Blick: ‘To me, they seemed like the perfect family.’ In contradiction, another friend revealed that the couple’s relationship had been ‘in crisis for months’. Infact police had been called to their home over reports of physical violence in the past.
Investigators said Thomas, a businessman, showed 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 had ‘sadistic-sociopathic traits’.

Kristina trained Miss Switzerland candidates to follow in her footsteps. Whereas her business flourished, in her private life, while friends believed, ‘they seemed like the perfect family,’ on the contrary was a relationship ‘in crisis for months’

Prosecutors told the court that the defendant had previously strangled his wife before killing her, local outlet BZ Basel reports.
Joksimovic had once won the Miss Northwest Switzerland pageant and went on to be a finalist in the 2008 national competition.
The same year, she founded a coaching and consulting agency for aspiring models.
Former Miss Switzerland Christa Rigozzi shared her ‘shock’ at the news in February.
‘It’s terrible. I’m really shocked,’ she told 20 Minuten.
‘I’m thinking of her two daughters.
‘She was such a beautiful and kind-hearted woman.’

Kristina Joksimovic, [photo], a Binningen native with Serbian roots, once won the Miss Northwest Switzerland pageant and went on to be a finalist in the 2008 national competition, before founding a coaching and consulting agency for aspiring models

Kristina, a Binningen native with Serbian roots, had reportedly switched from modelling to become a catwalk coach, inspiring the next generation.
Among other things, she trained Miss Switzerland candidates to follow in her footsteps.
She also trained businesswomen for walking confidently in their professional or private lives.