A husband who murdered his beauty pageant finalist wife and blended her stays has been locked up for all times.
Mum-of-two Kristina Joksimovic, 38, was killed at home in Switzerland following an argument together with her husband, Marc Rieben, 43.
The depraved businessman, who shared two young daughters with Ms Joksimovic, then used a jigsaw, a knife and garden scissors to dismember her body contained in the family home before using a blender on her body parts.
Rieben left her stays for Ms Joksimovic’s dad to search out following the February 2024 murder that shook the country and put Switzerland’s domestic violence epidemic within the highlight.
Now Rieben has been jailed for all times for the sadistic killing in Binningen near Basel.
Ms Joksimovic is alleged to have told her husband she wants a divorce together with financial support and custody of their children before her murder.
Prosecutors said Rieben acted knowingly and intentionally, and in full awareness of his actions.
Chilling details from the trial revealed how Rieben studied the Atlas of Human Anatomy to show himself the way to dismember his wife’s body.
Anina Hofer, the lawyer for Ms Joksimovic’s parents, read their heartbreaking statement in court: ‘I stand here today in court as a mother who has lost her daughter. Whose children miss their mummy day-after-day.
‘She was loving, protective of her children, and gave them all the pieces. Only one month after she tried to forge a brand new path for herself and her children, she was brutally torn from life.
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‘No verdict can bring our daughter back. But it could possibly show that her life matters.’
Rieben was ordered to pay around £94,600 to the couple’s two daughters, now aged five and 6, and over £264,000 to Ms Joksimovic’s family, Each day Mail reports.
A gaggle of protesters had gathered outside the court constructing in Muttenz, with extra cops brought in as Judge Daniel Schmid sentenced Rieben.
The judge said: ‘There are cases that make fiction grow to be reality. This case has modified our reality.
‘No court ruling can fill the void left by the lack of a loved one. We as a court may even always remember you and can carry you in our hearts.’
Mr Joksimovic suffered an ‘agonising’ death as her husband punched, kicked and strangled her ‘’in cold blood,’ prosecutors said.
He then tried to eliminate her body using the tools and bleach before the blender.
Rieben said he acted in self-defence after his wife allegedly threatened him with a knife in the course of the argument, but the prosecutor, citing evidence from the forensic report, said ‘there was never a knife attack.’
The prosecutor said: ‘The person’s behaviour after the crime was almost beyond belief in its cruelty and absurdity.
‘The person acted systematically and with a plan; his behaviour demonstrated the complete extent of his hatred for his wife.’
An authority on the trial, professor Frank Urbaniok, said he had diagnosed Rieben with narcissistic traits and an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
He said Rieben acted with ‘meticulous precision,’ and the way after the murder, he had gone to have dinner with the couple’s two children pretending nothing had happened.
The professor said he has ‘never seen anything like this before’ during his over 30 years of experience spanning 5,000 cases.
The couple’s eldest daughter, who was 4 on the time, told the police their dad is ‘lying’ when the detectives first told the kids that their mum had died, their dad was responsible and that he said he didn’t do it on purpose.
The youngsters now live with their mother’s parents.
Ms Joksimovic, a winner of the Miss Northwest Switzerland title, was a finalist within the Miss Switzerland competition. She went on to work as a modelling coach and he or she was well-known in the neighborhood.
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