As reported, a former Miss Switzerland finalist was allegedly star@ngled and dismembered with a jigsaw before being pureed in a blender by her husband.

The body of 38-year-old model Kristina Joksimovic was found back in February in Binningen, near Basel in Switzerland. Her 41-year-old husband, who was only referred to as “Thomas” in local media reports, was taken into custody but had appealed for his release, which was rejected by the country’s federal court in Lausanne after he confessed to the killing on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.

According to Swiss outlet BZ Basel, the ruling, which brought horrific new details about the murder to light, said the ongoing investigation has revealed “concrete indication of a mental illness” in the case.

The model’s husband and father of their two daughters admitted that he killed her but claimed it was to protect himself after she had previously attacked him with a knife. However, medical experts found no evidence of self-defense and identified her cause of death as strangulation.

Joksimovic’s body was then dismembered with a jigsaw, knife, and garden shears, according to an autopsy report obtained by the outlet.

According to the report, several of her body parts were then chopped up with a hand blender, “pureed,” and dissolved in a chemical solution.

Thomas was arrested the day after her body was found, initially telling investigators the month prior that he found her dead and dismembered her body in their laundry room in a panic.

Investigators have 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.’

Prosecutors also revealed that he had strangled his wife before.  A former partner also alleged he once grabbed the beauty queen by the neck and slammed her head into a wall.

Kristina, a Binningen native with Serbian roots, was reportedly switching from modeling to becoming a catwalk coach.