Dec. 11, 2025
Former Miss Switzerland Finalist Murdered, Dismembered and Police Say, Put In A Blender By Husband
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RSS Feed In a case that eerily mimics the gruesome details coming out of the Brian Walshe trial, a Swiss man has just been formally charged with murdering his wife, dismembering her body, and then dissolving her body parts in a blender. He’s been charged with murder and disturbing the peace of the dead after police say he strangled 38-year-old former Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic and the mother of his two young daughters.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, there, everybody.
00:00:03
Speaker 2: It is Thursday, December eleventh, and you know, we have been immersed in this Brian Walsh trial that's been going on in Massachusetts, and we've been covering it for you each and every day. We're in week two of this trial and the details have been horrific. The motivation and just how the prosecution is framing all of this and how the defense is defending Walsh has all been fascinating. But while we're covering this, there has been a major headline that has been eerily similar out of Switzerland. A former Miss Switzerland finalist die more than a year ago, but this week her husband has been charged with her murder, and the details, Wow, babe, don't you think that it is scarily reminiscent of what we're seeing play out in court in Massachusetts with the Brian Walsh trial.
00:00:58
Speaker 3: Yeah. Difference here is this guy said he actually killed his wife. There's a difference. But the dismemberment and the horror of someone chopping up their spouse to get rid of a body in such a way as is disturbing.
00:01:11
Speaker 2: Yes, because you think it's an anomaly, and obviously it's incredibly rare, but then to see something so eerily similar is certainly disturbing. So here's what we do know. And you said he admitted to killing her, but not initially. Initially he gave the exact same defense as Brian Walsh.
00:01:30
Speaker 3: Which was, well, his was just came home and she was dead.
00:01:36
Speaker 2: He found her dead, and he's stay, He's like, I found her dead. I didn't know what to do.
00:01:40
Speaker 1: I panicked.
00:01:41
Speaker 2: This is what exactly we're hearing from Brian Walsh as his defense. Brian Walsh is sticking to his story, and his defense attorneys are doing a pretty decent, if not good job, but trying to defend him with that. But eventually, and we don't know his name, forty three year old Swiss man. They're calling him Thomas in Swiss documents because there are Swiss privacy laws that don't reveal his name. But he eventually, according to police, admitted to killing her. But he said he only did it in self defense. The laws in Switzerland are different here than the laws in the United States, and so the Swiss took their time, waited for the autopsy results. In this case, they did have parts of her body and we'll get into that. But he ultimately admitted to killing her, but only because he said she was charging him with a knife.
00:02:30
Speaker 1: Well, we just got.
00:02:31
Speaker 2: Details now from the autopsy and from Swiss officials saying that they have ruled out his version. They now say they know how he murdered his wife.
00:02:42
Speaker 3: How strangulation was it not. I don't know how they could tell Again, they would tell her about the dismemberment, and it was difficult to understand fully how they were a lack of a better term, able to piece this thing together, because it wasn't just a matter of a body being dismembered. It was mutilated and gotten rid of in horrific ways to where you wonder how much of her was left.
00:03:07
Speaker 2: Yes, and we can get into some of those details. We're not going to get into all of them. They're simply too disgusting and gruesome. And in fact, the autopsy I was kind of my jaw dropped at the detail they went into and how.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: They described what he did.
00:03:22
Speaker 2: But this to me is fascinating because the whole point of Brian Walsh's defense, and certainly what's helping his defense and what's hindering the prosecution, is that they don't have Anna Walsh's body, and even if he dismembered her, which he admitted to doing Brian Walsh, and disposing of her body. Without her body, they cannot determine manner of death. And if you can't determine manner of death, how do you prove a murder? That is what's interesting in this case in Switzerland. They were able to find parts of the body, and with that, as limited as it might be, they were able to determine cause and mode of death. That is what's missing in the Brian Walsh trial.
00:04:06
Speaker 3: And look, we've been covering that plenty, and that might be the very thing that ends up with a potentially surprising verdict from this jury at the end. Again, that's not us, that's legal experts saying prosecution has got some work to do.
00:04:20
Speaker 1: Yes, certainly so.
00:04:21
Speaker 2: In this case in Switzerland, we're talking about thirty eight year old I want to make sure we get her name and who she was and her story. Thirty eight year old Christina Djoksimovich. She was a two thousand and seven Miss Switzerland finalist. Her pictures and the videos are everywhere. She was a gorgeous, stunning blonde woman who actually continued her passion for pageantry and was a modeling coach and she you can see her her Instagram is still up and running, by the way, and you can see her coaching several Miss Switzerland finalists for the Miss Universe pageants, and you could see her passion. She's a mom of two young girls, and people have especially with.
00:04:59
Speaker 1: This new of her husband being charged.
00:05:01
Speaker 2: Now it's all over the common section, people extending their condolences, rip those two poor young girls. All of this is incredibly sad. But the murder actually took place in February of twenty twenty four, and here are the headlines are out there, and they're pretty intense because what police say he did was strangle her, dismember her, and then take her remains and put them through an industrial blender. And maybe I don't know how they were able to time this out, but they've actually gone so far as to say in the police report that he was watching casual YouTube videos on his phone while he was putting his wife wife's remains in a blender. That's unthinkable.
00:05:51
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't this is this is not normal stuff. This is Texas chainsaw massacre type.
00:05:59
Speaker 1: Things.
00:05:59
Speaker 3: They are discres that something's not right possibly with this we just don't know, but some of the things being described are just not stuff you expect from someone you would attach the label of human.
00:06:13
Speaker 2: Being to correct And while you and while they're not releasing his name because of Swiss privacy laws, there are pictures out there of the two of them together and you look at him, good looking guy, muscular guy again, father of two young girls. This is when we get into this place, and every time we cover very rare but headline grabbing crimes like this, you start to look at the people involved and you think, how did he get.
00:06:41
Speaker 1: To this place? Was he created? Was he born like this?
00:06:45
Speaker 2: How does someone go from being a seemingly loving father and a loving husband to not just someone who snapped under pressure or had a bad moment where they there was a crime of passion. Fine, but then to be able to go to the links that Brian Walsh is accused of and now this man Thomas is accused of, to be able to do that to another human being to avoid being caught, That's what I think. Just you can't get inside someone's head like that, or we all try to for whatever reason we want to understand evil?
00:07:20
Speaker 1: Is that what it is?
00:07:23
Speaker 3: Yeah? This is just that this is different from most crimes we see. We see a lot of horrific stuff and killings and deaths and all kinds of things. This is something else. We were talking about a blender, putting your wife's body in a blender. I mean, you just start with that, and this is I don't know, this is beyond true crime. This is beyond what we can comprehend. This sounds like mental illness. This is just again, it's just a horrific I guess the details are horrific. If if this man had just killed his wife, we would not be here in the United States talking about a Swiss murder.
00:07:58
Speaker 2: Yes, and especially given the parallels to what we're seeing playing out in Courton, Massachusetts, those two. But this one, I didn't think that it could get worse than Brian Walsh. We were listening to and seeing the headlines and the searches this Brian Walsh was putting into his computer, and that was jaw dropping in to see a story that actually takes the horror of that to another level. Well, that's this story out of Switzerland. When we come back, we're going to talk about how the prosecutor's office described Thomas, the husband accused of doing these horrific things, and talk a little bit more about the victim in this case and who she was and how sad it is that her life was cut so short at just the age of thirty eight. Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a two thousands Miss Switzerland finalist who was brutally murdered in February of twenty twenty four. It's making headlines now this week because just yesterday, on Wednesday, her husband was officially charged with murder, and not just murder, he was also charged with disturbing the peace of the dead. That is the charge in Switzerland, that's how they call it. But this case is eerily similar to what we're seeing play out in Massachusetts with the Brian Walsh trial, where he is accused of murdering his wife Anna, But more notably, he's admitted to already dismembering his wife's body and then disposing of her remains. In that case, they've never found her body, he's never pointed police in the direction of where it may be, and therefore they have a very tall order in court trying to establish cause of death. How did Anna Walsh die? That's been a really huge battle we've seen play out in the courtroom where they're struggling with it. They're trying to to show that he murdered her, but they don't have a body. In this case in Switzerland with thirty eight year old Christina Djoksimovich, they do have a body. But when you hear what he did with her body, it's remarkable to me that they could figure out that she died by strangulation. I don't know how this works, but those forensic scientists are pretty remarkable.
00:10:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a murder. I don't know what would have happened if he had gotten rid of her body completely. We might be in the same position, or the laws are different over them. Maybe they would not have been able to even charge the man without the body.
00:10:34
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's different from state to state, different from country to country as to whether or not you can bring murder charges without a body. But they did find the body. Again, he dismembered her. But the most gruesome part of this all perhaps is that he then took her body parts and put them in an industrial blender, and police say he was watching YouTube videos while he was doing this. He has pleaded well, he has admitted to killing her, but he is saying that it was in self defense. The prosecutor's office to say that does not jibe with the forensics and the evidence that they have. But they noted in court filings they actually got really specific describing Thomas. This is the husband of the victim in this case, and they said he displayed when they interviewed him, a remarkably high level of criminal energy, lack of empathy, and cold bloodedness. I wonder what a high level of criminal energy refers to.
00:11:33
Speaker 3: Scary. I don't know. I've never heard a criminal described in such a way. We've heard a lot of stuff, but yeah, I don't know what they meant if they use that, they reserve that for very special people, if that's just a more common term. But I've never heard that.
00:11:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't either.
00:11:47
Speaker 2: So I was trying to imagine what that must have been like for them to stare him down and be and write that and put that in the notes in his court filings that they put in there. They do have two young daughters. They are in the custody of other family members. But the good news, at least I can't even imagine. According to reports, it was her own father who saw evidence that his daughter was dead. He actually saw some of her blonde hair, and it led police to figuring out what ultimately happened to that young woman, again, just thirty eight years old. That is just an unthinkable I can't get my head around that her own father is who discovered what may have happened to his daughter. That is incredibly difficult. Now we don't have a trial date yet, but certainly that is going to be I can only imagine a media circus there in Switzerland, because this is a high profile case that has obviously made headlines all the way over here in the United States. But in terms of who this young woman, this mother of two, and these were young girls, by the way, her youngest was three and the other one was, I believe also just in elementary school. So this is Christina djokas Simovich, and she, as we mentioned, was Miss Northwest Switzerland, and she was a mentor to several models, but also a role model to a lot of women just looking at her Instagram profile.
00:13:13
Speaker 1: But it is just incredibly sad.
00:13:15
Speaker 2: Wanted to just talk about this case that, in such a strange way mimics what we're seeing here in Massachusetts. But we certainly wish her family the deepest of condolences and hope that this you know, I did see online some women's groups just pointing out that this kind of thing happens, that it seems monstrous. Obviously it is, and it makes headlines because of how sensationally she was dismembered and disposed of, but it points to a larger issue about violence against women, and that this isn't just about sensationalized media headlines, but about a real problem that when women are women are in danger, and oftentimes by the men who purport to love them the most.
00:13:58
Speaker 3: We have to remember. It's always a reminder been like this my whole career. Newsrooms, Why do we care? It's not just sometimes because it's sillacious, But when you can add the fact that she was in a beauty pageant, you can add the fact that she was blonde, you can add the fact that her eyes were blue, that oftentimes or stories they get attention. There are some horrific details about this one. But at the same time we want to remember and remind everybody about this happening to women. Then all of us have a responsibility to talk about the women who are not just former beauty pageant contestants.
00:14:30
Speaker 2: It is true, and you think about the recent stories that have made headlines, even for instance, the horrific death on the cruise. We're waiting to see if there are charges against the stepbrother. But the young woman who was killed and murdered on that cruise ship, everyone wants to point out.
00:14:47
Speaker 1: That she was cheerleader. They show her pictures.
00:14:50
Speaker 2: So yes, the more attractive you are, perhaps even the wider you are, the more attention your murder gets. And that is incredibly sad to the folks and to the women and to the people everywhere who have just as much of a right to be remembered, recognized and to have justice for their families. And oftentimes media attention like this does lead to greater justice, better results, at least for the family to feel like someone cares, police get involved, and that is a very important point as we cover all of these stories. So thank you everyone for listening to us. We always appreciate you. Of course, we'll continue to keep our eye on the Brian Walsh trial and bring you the very latest developments on that later today, so look for that episode. But in the meantime, thank you for joining us. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ.
00:15:35
Speaker 1: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, there, everybody.
00:00:03
Speaker 2: It is Thursday, December eleventh, and you know, we have been immersed in this Brian Walsh trial that's been going on in Massachusetts, and we've been covering it for you each and every day. We're in week two of this trial and the details have been horrific. The motivation and just how the prosecution is framing all of this and how the defense is defending Walsh has all been fascinating. But while we're covering this, there has been a major headline that has been eerily similar out of Switzerland. A former Miss Switzerland finalist die more than a year ago, but this week her husband has been charged with her murder, and the details, Wow, babe, don't you think that it is scarily reminiscent of what we're seeing play out in court in Massachusetts with the Brian Walsh trial.
00:00:58
Speaker 3: Yeah. Difference here is this guy said he actually killed his wife. There's a difference. But the dismemberment and the horror of someone chopping up their spouse to get rid of a body in such a way as is disturbing.
00:01:11
Speaker 2: Yes, because you think it's an anomaly, and obviously it's incredibly rare, but then to see something so eerily similar is certainly disturbing. So here's what we do know. And you said he admitted to killing her, but not initially. Initially he gave the exact same defense as Brian Walsh.
00:01:30
Speaker 3: Which was, well, his was just came home and she was dead.
00:01:36
Speaker 2: He found her dead, and he's stay, He's like, I found her dead. I didn't know what to do.
00:01:40
Speaker 1: I panicked.
00:01:41
Speaker 2: This is what exactly we're hearing from Brian Walsh as his defense. Brian Walsh is sticking to his story, and his defense attorneys are doing a pretty decent, if not good job, but trying to defend him with that. But eventually, and we don't know his name, forty three year old Swiss man. They're calling him Thomas in Swiss documents because there are Swiss privacy laws that don't reveal his name. But he eventually, according to police, admitted to killing her. But he said he only did it in self defense. The laws in Switzerland are different here than the laws in the United States, and so the Swiss took their time, waited for the autopsy results. In this case, they did have parts of her body and we'll get into that. But he ultimately admitted to killing her, but only because he said she was charging him with a knife.
00:02:30
Speaker 1: Well, we just got.
00:02:31
Speaker 2: Details now from the autopsy and from Swiss officials saying that they have ruled out his version. They now say they know how he murdered his wife.
00:02:42
Speaker 3: How strangulation was it not. I don't know how they could tell Again, they would tell her about the dismemberment, and it was difficult to understand fully how they were a lack of a better term, able to piece this thing together, because it wasn't just a matter of a body being dismembered. It was mutilated and gotten rid of in horrific ways to where you wonder how much of her was left.
00:03:07
Speaker 2: Yes, and we can get into some of those details. We're not going to get into all of them. They're simply too disgusting and gruesome. And in fact, the autopsy I was kind of my jaw dropped at the detail they went into and how.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: They described what he did.
00:03:22
Speaker 2: But this to me is fascinating because the whole point of Brian Walsh's defense, and certainly what's helping his defense and what's hindering the prosecution, is that they don't have Anna Walsh's body, and even if he dismembered her, which he admitted to doing Brian Walsh, and disposing of her body. Without her body, they cannot determine manner of death. And if you can't determine manner of death, how do you prove a murder? That is what's interesting in this case in Switzerland. They were able to find parts of the body, and with that, as limited as it might be, they were able to determine cause and mode of death. That is what's missing in the Brian Walsh trial.
00:04:06
Speaker 3: And look, we've been covering that plenty, and that might be the very thing that ends up with a potentially surprising verdict from this jury at the end. Again, that's not us, that's legal experts saying prosecution has got some work to do.
00:04:20
Speaker 1: Yes, certainly so.
00:04:21
Speaker 2: In this case in Switzerland, we're talking about thirty eight year old I want to make sure we get her name and who she was and her story. Thirty eight year old Christina Djoksimovich. She was a two thousand and seven Miss Switzerland finalist. Her pictures and the videos are everywhere. She was a gorgeous, stunning blonde woman who actually continued her passion for pageantry and was a modeling coach and she you can see her her Instagram is still up and running, by the way, and you can see her coaching several Miss Switzerland finalists for the Miss Universe pageants, and you could see her passion. She's a mom of two young girls, and people have especially with.
00:04:59
Speaker 1: This new of her husband being charged.
00:05:01
Speaker 2: Now it's all over the common section, people extending their condolences, rip those two poor young girls. All of this is incredibly sad. But the murder actually took place in February of twenty twenty four, and here are the headlines are out there, and they're pretty intense because what police say he did was strangle her, dismember her, and then take her remains and put them through an industrial blender. And maybe I don't know how they were able to time this out, but they've actually gone so far as to say in the police report that he was watching casual YouTube videos on his phone while he was putting his wife wife's remains in a blender. That's unthinkable.
00:05:51
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't this is this is not normal stuff. This is Texas chainsaw massacre type.
00:05:59
Speaker 1: Things.
00:05:59
Speaker 3: They are discres that something's not right possibly with this we just don't know, but some of the things being described are just not stuff you expect from someone you would attach the label of human.
00:06:13
Speaker 2: Being to correct And while you and while they're not releasing his name because of Swiss privacy laws, there are pictures out there of the two of them together and you look at him, good looking guy, muscular guy again, father of two young girls. This is when we get into this place, and every time we cover very rare but headline grabbing crimes like this, you start to look at the people involved and you think, how did he get.
00:06:41
Speaker 1: To this place? Was he created? Was he born like this?
00:06:45
Speaker 2: How does someone go from being a seemingly loving father and a loving husband to not just someone who snapped under pressure or had a bad moment where they there was a crime of passion. Fine, but then to be able to go to the links that Brian Walsh is accused of and now this man Thomas is accused of, to be able to do that to another human being to avoid being caught, That's what I think. Just you can't get inside someone's head like that, or we all try to for whatever reason we want to understand evil?
00:07:20
Speaker 1: Is that what it is?
00:07:23
Speaker 3: Yeah? This is just that this is different from most crimes we see. We see a lot of horrific stuff and killings and deaths and all kinds of things. This is something else. We were talking about a blender, putting your wife's body in a blender. I mean, you just start with that, and this is I don't know, this is beyond true crime. This is beyond what we can comprehend. This sounds like mental illness. This is just again, it's just a horrific I guess the details are horrific. If if this man had just killed his wife, we would not be here in the United States talking about a Swiss murder.
00:07:58
Speaker 2: Yes, and especially given the parallels to what we're seeing playing out in Courton, Massachusetts, those two. But this one, I didn't think that it could get worse than Brian Walsh. We were listening to and seeing the headlines and the searches this Brian Walsh was putting into his computer, and that was jaw dropping in to see a story that actually takes the horror of that to another level. Well, that's this story out of Switzerland. When we come back, we're going to talk about how the prosecutor's office described Thomas, the husband accused of doing these horrific things, and talk a little bit more about the victim in this case and who she was and how sad it is that her life was cut so short at just the age of thirty eight. Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a two thousands Miss Switzerland finalist who was brutally murdered in February of twenty twenty four. It's making headlines now this week because just yesterday, on Wednesday, her husband was officially charged with murder, and not just murder, he was also charged with disturbing the peace of the dead. That is the charge in Switzerland, that's how they call it. But this case is eerily similar to what we're seeing play out in Massachusetts with the Brian Walsh trial, where he is accused of murdering his wife Anna, But more notably, he's admitted to already dismembering his wife's body and then disposing of her remains. In that case, they've never found her body, he's never pointed police in the direction of where it may be, and therefore they have a very tall order in court trying to establish cause of death. How did Anna Walsh die? That's been a really huge battle we've seen play out in the courtroom where they're struggling with it. They're trying to to show that he murdered her, but they don't have a body. In this case in Switzerland with thirty eight year old Christina Djoksimovich, they do have a body. But when you hear what he did with her body, it's remarkable to me that they could figure out that she died by strangulation. I don't know how this works, but those forensic scientists are pretty remarkable.
00:10:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a murder. I don't know what would have happened if he had gotten rid of her body completely. We might be in the same position, or the laws are different over them. Maybe they would not have been able to even charge the man without the body.
00:10:34
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's different from state to state, different from country to country as to whether or not you can bring murder charges without a body. But they did find the body. Again, he dismembered her. But the most gruesome part of this all perhaps is that he then took her body parts and put them in an industrial blender, and police say he was watching YouTube videos while he was doing this. He has pleaded well, he has admitted to killing her, but he is saying that it was in self defense. The prosecutor's office to say that does not jibe with the forensics and the evidence that they have. But they noted in court filings they actually got really specific describing Thomas. This is the husband of the victim in this case, and they said he displayed when they interviewed him, a remarkably high level of criminal energy, lack of empathy, and cold bloodedness. I wonder what a high level of criminal energy refers to.
00:11:33
Speaker 3: Scary. I don't know. I've never heard a criminal described in such a way. We've heard a lot of stuff, but yeah, I don't know what they meant if they use that, they reserve that for very special people, if that's just a more common term. But I've never heard that.
00:11:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't either.
00:11:47
Speaker 2: So I was trying to imagine what that must have been like for them to stare him down and be and write that and put that in the notes in his court filings that they put in there. They do have two young daughters. They are in the custody of other family members. But the good news, at least I can't even imagine. According to reports, it was her own father who saw evidence that his daughter was dead. He actually saw some of her blonde hair, and it led police to figuring out what ultimately happened to that young woman, again, just thirty eight years old. That is just an unthinkable I can't get my head around that her own father is who discovered what may have happened to his daughter. That is incredibly difficult. Now we don't have a trial date yet, but certainly that is going to be I can only imagine a media circus there in Switzerland, because this is a high profile case that has obviously made headlines all the way over here in the United States. But in terms of who this young woman, this mother of two, and these were young girls, by the way, her youngest was three and the other one was, I believe also just in elementary school. So this is Christina djokas Simovich, and she, as we mentioned, was Miss Northwest Switzerland, and she was a mentor to several models, but also a role model to a lot of women just looking at her Instagram profile.
00:13:13
Speaker 1: But it is just incredibly sad.
00:13:15
Speaker 2: Wanted to just talk about this case that, in such a strange way mimics what we're seeing here in Massachusetts. But we certainly wish her family the deepest of condolences and hope that this you know, I did see online some women's groups just pointing out that this kind of thing happens, that it seems monstrous. Obviously it is, and it makes headlines because of how sensationally she was dismembered and disposed of, but it points to a larger issue about violence against women, and that this isn't just about sensationalized media headlines, but about a real problem that when women are women are in danger, and oftentimes by the men who purport to love them the most.
00:13:58
Speaker 3: We have to remember. It's always a reminder been like this my whole career. Newsrooms, Why do we care? It's not just sometimes because it's sillacious, But when you can add the fact that she was in a beauty pageant, you can add the fact that she was blonde, you can add the fact that her eyes were blue, that oftentimes or stories they get attention. There are some horrific details about this one. But at the same time we want to remember and remind everybody about this happening to women. Then all of us have a responsibility to talk about the women who are not just former beauty pageant contestants.
00:14:30
Speaker 2: It is true, and you think about the recent stories that have made headlines, even for instance, the horrific death on the cruise. We're waiting to see if there are charges against the stepbrother. But the young woman who was killed and murdered on that cruise ship, everyone wants to point out.
00:14:47
Speaker 1: That she was cheerleader. They show her pictures.
00:14:50
Speaker 2: So yes, the more attractive you are, perhaps even the wider you are, the more attention your murder gets. And that is incredibly sad to the folks and to the women and to the people everywhere who have just as much of a right to be remembered, recognized and to have justice for their families. And oftentimes media attention like this does lead to greater justice, better results, at least for the family to feel like someone cares, police get involved, and that is a very important point as we cover all of these stories. So thank you everyone for listening to us. We always appreciate you. Of course, we'll continue to keep our eye on the Brian Walsh trial and bring you the very latest developments on that later today, so look for that episode. But in the meantime, thank you for joining us. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ.
00:15:35
Speaker 1: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.