A husband has been charged with brutally murdering his Miss Switzerland finalist wife after he allegedly strangled her and pureed her body parts in a blender.

The 41-year-old, who was named in local media by the pseudonym of Thomas due to Swiss privacy laws, is accused of decapitating Kristina Joksimovic and cutting out her womb.

Her ravaged body was found in their home in Binningen, near Basel, on February 13, 2024. According to a neighbour, the couple’s two young children also lived in the house.

The Basel-Landschaft Public Prosecutor’s Office has now concluded its criminal investigation and a trial date is yet to be set.

In September 2024, court documents exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail revealed that Joksimovic had been decapitated when her husband allegedly dismembered her body with a jigsaw, a knife and garden shears.

An autopsy report also showed that Thomas had also allegedly ‘carefully removed’ Joksimovic’s womb, which was the only organ cut out of her torso.

Some of his wife’s body parts were said to have then been forced into a powerful industrial blender, in which he allegedly ‘pureed’ them, as well as dissolving some in a chemical solution.

Investigators found that while allegedly cutting up the mother-of-two’s body, Thomas played YouTube videos on his phone.


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The 41-year-old, who was named in local media by the pseudonym of Thomas due to Swiss privacy laws, is accused of decapitating Kristina Joksimovic and cutting out her womb

Model Kristina was found dead in her home in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland, in February 2024, with an autopsy revealing that she was strangled before being dismembered in the laundry room with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears
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Model Kristina was found dead in her home in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland, in February 2024, with an autopsy revealing that she was strangled before being dismembered in the laundry room with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears


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The model’s husband admitted to having killed his wife, claiming self defence, per local media

The autopsy found that Joksimovic’s cause of death was strangulation, with her neck showing a ‘reddish throttle mark’.

Her body showed signs of blunt force trauma suffered prior to her death, with Joksimovic having cuts on her cheek, under her eyebrow and nose as well as several bruises on her right lower leg, foot, shoulder blades and on the back of her head.

A closer examination of Joksimovic’s head revealed wounds indicating that some of her hair was ripped out.

The experts who analysed the dismemberment of her body said Thomas used a jigsaw, a knife and a pair of garden shears to dismember Kristina, before either throwing ‘various body parts’ into an industrial blender or dissolving them in a chemical solution.

Investigators found ‘a large number’ of skin flaps, ‘some with attached muscles’ as well as ‘a large number of pieces of muscle, some with attached pieces of bone’.

The autopsy revealed that before Thomas allegedly dismembered her, he broke Kristina’s hip joints out of their sockets and went on to disarticulation – which is the removal of a bone from its joint, like an amputation – with her left upper arm, forearms and right lower leg.

He is then believed to have ‘roughly severed’ Joksimovic’s upper spine to decapitate her and further split her torso in half above her pelvis.

The medical experts assumed in the autopsy report that the ‘disposal’ of Joksimovic’s body was the goal of Thomas’ actions, which included him allegedly hiding her phone on a delivery truck.

The court also previously noted that Thomas had refused to give them access to his phone, which investigators say is encrypted and could hide more evidence.

Describing what happened before the killing, Thomas said that the couple had a ‘positive’ conversation before Joksimovic ‘suddenly attacked him with a knife’.

He had previously claimed that he ‘found his wife dead’ by the stairs in their family home, but later said that he strangled her in self-defence against the alleged knife attack.

Kristina, the mother of their two children, was allegedly killed because she had previously threatened her husband with a knife
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Kristina, the mother of their two children, was allegedly killed because she had previously threatened her husband with a knife

Kristina and her husband have two daughters (pictured above during a beach holiday in August 2023)
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Kristina and her husband have two daughters (pictured above during a beach holiday in August 2023)

Thomas also allegedly 'carefully removed' Kristina's womb, which was the only organ cut out of her torso, and this 'deliberate mutilation or ritualised degradation of the body' is believed to indicate that Thomas has a mental disorder, according to the court
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Thomas also allegedly ‘carefully removed’ Kristina’s womb, which was the only organ cut out of her torso, and this ‘deliberate mutilation or ritualised degradation of the body’ is believed to indicate that Thomas has a mental disorder, according to the court

The 41-year-old man, who was named in local media by the pseudonym of Thomas due to Swiss privacy laws, admitted to having killed Kristina Joksimovic (pictured), whose ravaged body was found in their home in Binningen, near Basel, on February 13, 2024
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The 41-year-old man, who was named in local media by the pseudonym of Thomas due to Swiss privacy laws, admitted to having killed Kristina Joksimovic (pictured), whose ravaged body was found in their home in Binningen, near Basel, on February 13, 2024

But the court said the autopsy report clearly contradicted Thomas’ self-defence and panic reaction claims, as his ‘planned and systematic approach over several hours in dismembering and attempting to dispose of the body using special tools and chemicals, and in destroying and manipulating traces (injuries on the victim’s body)’ went against them.

The ‘signs of deliberate mutilation or ritualised degradation of the body’, in part referring to the ‘careful removal’ of Kristina’s womb, were also indicating that Thomas possibly had a mental disorder, the court added.

A source close to Joksimovic last year revealed that a possible motive for the killing was the mother-of-two planning to leave her businessman partner.

‘She wanted to break up, but was afraid of him,’ the source told 20 Minuten.

The heinous attack came just weeks after Joksimovic posted images of an idyllic ‘couple’s getaway’ they’d shared to Lake Lucerne on social media.

Meanwhile, the partner of one of Joksimovic’s friends told Blick that the relationship had been ‘in crisis for months’, adding that the police was called to their house over reports of physical violence before.

Thomas claimed that he felt like he was getting into a ‘tunnel’ due to his ‘fear of losing [his] children, house and company’.

He claimed this ‘fear’ stressed him out to the extent that he ‘did not give himself time to reflect on his decisions and question his actions, while his control mechanisms were missing due to shock’.