The Huugjilt Case: He Reported a Body at 18, Was Executed 62 Days Later, Cleared 18 Years On

Unclosed | True Crime · Oct 9, 2026 · 23m

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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…