A former beauty pageant contestant was reportedly strangled and dismembered by her husband before he 'pureed' some of her remains in a blender.

"Kristina Joksimovic, 38, was found slain in her home in February in Binningen, near the city of Basel in Switzerland," the New York Post reports.

According to Daily Mail, the 41-year-old man, who's referred to by the pseudonym "Thomas" due to Swiss privacy laws, admitted to killing Joksimovic.

From the New York Post:

The ruling, which brought horrific new details about the murder to light, said the ongoing investigation has revealed "concrete indications of a mental illness" in the case, according to Swiss outlet BZ Basel.

Joksimovic's butchered body was discovered on the night of Feb. 13.

The model's husband and father of their two daughters admitted that he killed her in March, but said 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 dismembered with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears, according to an autopsy report obtained by the outlet.

Several of her body parts were then chopped up with a hand blender, "pureed" and dissolved in a chemical solution, according to the report.

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

Per Daily Mail:

He also '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.

Some of his wife's body parts were forced into a powerful industrial blender, in which he 'pureed' them, as well as dissolving some in a chemical solution.

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

The autopsy found that Kristina'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 Kristina 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 Kristina's head revealed wounds indicating that some of her hair was ripped out.