Overview
- The trial opened under tight security with the public barred and reporters watching by video link.
- Prosecutors say Marc Rieben strangled Kristina Joksimovic during a divorce dispute, then dismembered her with tools and used an industrial blender.
- The indictment and autopsy describe the removal of her uterus and call the post‑mortem acts deliberate degradation.
- Rieben admits causing her death but told the court he loved her, called it an accident, apologized, and offered money to their children and her parents.
- Judges will also weigh a charge of desecration of the dead, civil plaintiffs have joined the case, and a verdict is expected May 13.