Annette Marie Valdez and the Warning Signs That Went Unheeded [Current Affairs]
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week on Love Murder Current Affairs, the episode begins with an update in the killing of former Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic, as Swiss prosecutors formally charge her husband with murder and detail evidence of strangulation and prior abuse. The focus then shifts to Colorado, where Thomas Perales has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Annette Marie Valdez, a mother of three whose body was found in a trash can after repeated domestic violence calls to her apartment. The episode also examines a UK case in which Andrew Georgiou has pleaded guilty to murdering his wife by drowning her in their backyard hot tub.
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- https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/suspect-released-from-jail-a-week-before-woman-went-missing/73-ee2a78a5-ebe9-4c5a-9dee-87d3c884d8b9 9News
- https://people.com/colo-woman-body-found-trash-kids-dad-charged-11866436 People.com
- https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-repeat-offender-freed-from-jail-less-than-two-weeks-before-allegedly-killing-mother-three-report Fox News
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/husband-of-former-miss-switzerland-finalist-kristina-joksimovic-charged-in-her-gruesome-murder The Daily Beast
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to current affairs, our show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now. If this is your first love |
| 0:55.7 | murder episode, tune back in on Wednesdays for our main full-length episodes. We begin with an |
| 1:01.1 | update in the case of Christina Yuximovich, the former Miss Switzerland finalist who has found |
| 1:06.1 | dead in her home in Switzerland in February of 2024. Yoksimovich was a 38-year-old and had been crowned Miss Northwest Switzerland before |
| 1:14.4 | becoming a finalist in the 2007 Miss Switzerland pageant. After her pageant career, she worked as |
| 1:20.0 | a catwalk coach and mentor to other models. She mentored several models, including |
| 1:24.4 | Dominique Rindernecht, before her Miss Universe 2013 appearance. |
| 1:29.6 | The tragedy unfolded on February 13th of 2024 at the couple's home in Switzerland near Basel. |
| 1:35.9 | Her body was discovered by her horrified father. Her husband was arrested shortly afterward. |
| 1:40.5 | The husband initially claimed that he had returned to find his wife dead and acted in panic, |
| 1:46.2 | later alleging self-defense. However, forensic experts found no evidence to support that narrative |
| 1:51.8 | determining strangulation as the cause of death. The investigation also revealed a darker pattern. |
| 1:58.2 | Yaksimovic had reportedly complained of earlier abuse, including being choked. |
| 2:03.6 | A former partner told police she had previously seen him grab Yoximovich by the neck and |
| 2:08.8 | slam her head into the wall. Now the update. Swiss prosecutors have formally charged her |
| 2:13.9 | 43-year-old husband with murder and disturbing the peace of the dead. |
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