👉 Support this show On the night of April 9, 1996, in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, a young man who worked at a factory found a woman's body in a public toilet, and ran to report it to the police. The man the police took away that night was him. On May 23 he was sentenced to death, and on June 10, sixty-two days after he reported the crime, he was executed by firing squad. This episode is about the Huugjilt case. It took sixty-two days to go from the report to the execution, and eighteen years passed between the execution and the day a court declared him not guilty. The not-guilty verdict came, the state paid compensation, and twenty-seven people were held responsible. And in 2019, the Supreme People's Court refused to count this case against Zhao Zhihong, the man arrested nine years later who described it himself. Huugjilt has been declared not guilty, Zhao Zhihong was not held responsible for it, and to this day, this case has no killer in the eyes of the law. And there is one note whose contents were not made public. 【Timeline】 Apr 9, 1996 Huugjilt reports a woman's body to the police and is taken away that same night Apr 20, 1996 The local evening newspaper runs a story saying the killer is Huugjilt May 23, 1996 The court sentences him to death; on June 5, the high court upholds the sentence Jun 10, 1996 Huugjilt is executed by firing squad, more than three months short of his nineteenth birthday Oct 23, 2005 Another man is arrested; he describes this case four times Dec 5, 2006 On toilet paper, that man writes an application to pay with his life Dec 15, 2014 A retrial overturns the original verdict and declares Huugjilt not guilty Dec 30, 2014 The state compensation decision comes to 2,059,621.4 yuan Jul 30, 2019 Zhao Zhihong is executed; the Supreme People's Court does not count this case against him Oct 2019 The former head of the criminal police team at the Xincheng District police bureau is investigated; he is later found hanged 【This episode answers】 ・What had to be squeezed into those sixty-two days, and how many real working days were there? ・What did the man arrested nine years later say, and what did he do? ・What were the three reasons the retrial verdict gave for overturning the original verdict? ・Zhao Zhihong described the case four times, and a lie detector test found him more than ninety-eight percent credible. Why did the Supreme People's Court still not count it against him? 【Sources】 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/呼格吉勒图案 — Background music: Unclosed Cases Intro, Unclosed Cases Underscore Bed (Google Flow Music) The narration and music in this show are AI-generated. The content is compiled from public sources, and the show contains no recordings of any real person. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
