Kristina Joksimovic, a former Miss Switzerland finalist, strangled and dismembered, her partner admits to the murder

A Swiss court document provides terrifying details about the circumstances in which the victim was killed. Her husband, Thomas L., confessed to the crime.

This is a terrible femicide. Kristina Joksimovic, a former finalist in the Miss Switzerland 2007 competition, was found dead at her home on February 13 in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland. The suspect, her husband, Thomas L., 41, has just had a request for release refused by the Federal Court of Lausanne. The court decision, revealed by the Swiss media Berner ZeitungWednesday September 11, reveals the atrocious details of the murder of this 38-year-old former model.

Kristina Joksimovic was allegedly first strangled and then “dismembered using a jigsaw, a knife and pruning shears”details the Berner Zeitung. Thomas L. then allegedly tried to get rid of his body by chopping up part of it. “with a hand blender” before dissolving it in a chemical product. The Swiss justice system considered that there were “concrete signs of mental illness” at Thomas L., who admitted to killing his wife during a crime reenactment in March. According to Swiss online media 20 Minutes, the couple had been married since 2017 and had two little girls.

The way Thomas L. killed his victim suggests that he has a “massive willingness to use violence” and some “sadistic tendencies”or even “sociopathic”, relay the Bernese newspaper. The courts consider that he has demonstrated “a significantly high level of criminal energy, a lack of empathy and composure after killing his wife”He had initially claimed to have acted in self-defense, accusing his partner of attacking him with a knife. According to investigators, he had already been violent with a former partner.

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