Credit: Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhen she failed to pick up their daughters from kindergarten, her parents became worried. <\/p>\n
Her father went to her home, where Ribben reportedly claimed he did not know where she was. <\/p>\n
For hours, he reportedly behaved as if nothing was wrong as he cooked dinner, put the children to bed and talked calmly to his father-in-law.<\/p>\n
A friend said, “Reben continued to insist that he did not know where Christina was and claimed that she was gone sometimes.”<\/p>\n
As Ribben spoke to Christina’s mother on the phone, her father searched the house.<\/p>\n
In the basement, she saw a black bin bag with strands of blonde hair sticking out of it. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen she opened the black bin bag, she saw his severed head, with her hair still attached,\u201d the friend said.<\/p>\n
He ran outside screaming and pleading with a passerby to call the police, before returning to confront his son-in-law.<\/p>\n
Christina was a glamorous former Miss Switzerland finalist and catwalk coach. His social media showed photos of his family smiling along with their two young daughters.<\/p>\n
A few weeks before his death, photographs showed a romantic “couple’s holiday” with Rieben at Lake Lucerne.<\/p>\n
The couple, who married in 2017, lived in an expensive semi-detached house in Binningen, near Basel \u2013 a quiet, affluent neighborhood where Rieben was seen as a model husband. <\/p>\n
Neighbors described Riben as a “devoted father.” <\/p>\n
Former Miss Switzerland Nadine Vinzens said: “She always made a pleasant impression on me. I never thought her husband would do something like this.”<\/p>\n
Another friend said: “To me, they seemed like the perfect family.”<\/p>\n
After his arrest, Ribben reportedly showed no emotion.<\/p>\n
Through his lawyers, he has confessed, but has said that he acted in self-defense because Christina attacked him.<\/p>\n
He alleged that moments before his death, Christina “suddenly attacked him with a knife” after a “positive” conversation.<\/p>\n
He said he committed the act “out of panic”.<\/p>\n
One expert rejected his claim of self-defense, pointing out that victims of real life-threatening attacks typically contact the police immediately \u2013 not “quick, purposeful and systematically executed” attempts to destroy evidence.<\/p>\n
His actions only make sense if he was trying to “eliminate as many traces as possible, including the body, to hide what really happened,” the expert said.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say Reiben had a history of violence, including previously strangling his wife \u2013 evidence supported by earlier photographs \u2013 and assaulting a former partner.<\/p>\n
According to the indictment, the murder was intentional, motivated by “a selfish attitude and mentality that included the need for control, hurt feelings, revenge, and intense anger”. <\/p>\n
Reben has been in custody since his arrest.<\/p>\n
The media is following the trial via video link, with only judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants and family allowed into the courtroom.<\/p>\n
Due to strict Swiss privacy laws, Ribben is being referred to in local media as Thomas L., while Christina \u2013 a former Miss Switzerland finalist \u2013 is Ivana L.<\/p>\n
Rieben has denied the allegations against him. <\/p>\n
The hearing is expected to last five and a half days.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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