Swiss authorities have formally charged a man, identified only as Thomas due to privacy laws, with the gruesome murder of his wife, Kristina Joksimovic, a former Miss Switzerland finalist. The 38-year-old beauty queen was found dismembered in her home in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland, in February 2024. Thomas, 43, reportedly confessed to strangling his wife.
The Basel-Landschaft Public Prosecutor’s Office announced the charges following the conclusion of their investigation. A trial date has yet to be determined. The details of the crime, as revealed in an autopsy report and court documents, are disturbing. Joksimovic’s body was dismembered using a jigsaw, knife, and garden shears. Her womb was the only organ removed from her torso.
Further investigation revealed that several of Joksimovic’s body parts were processed in an industrial blender and dissolved in a chemical solution. It was also discovered that Thomas was viewing YouTube videos on his phone during the dismemberment process. The horrifying discovery of Joksimovic’s remains was made by her father, who noticed blond hair protruding from a black bag in the laundry room.
Investigators recovered the blender and remnants of Joksimovic’s body, including skin with attached muscles and bone fragments. The autopsy report detailed the extent of the dismemberment, noting that Thomas had dislocated her hip joints to remove her limbs and severed her spine to decapitate her.
Thomas, the father of Joksimovic’s two daughters, admitted to killing his wife in March, claiming self-defense after an alleged knife attack by her. However, this claim was contradicted by medical experts who found no evidence of self-defense and determined strangulation as the cause of death.
Court documents noted Thomas’s “remarkably high level of criminal energy, lack of empathy, and cold-bloodedness” following the murder. Joksimovic, who was crowned Miss Northwest Switzerland and was a finalist for Miss Switzerland in 2007, later established her own business as a catwalk coach and mentored model Dominique Rinderknecht for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013.