After blanket censorship is lifted, the Chinese media hints that one of the Communist party's highest ranking former officials may have murdered his first wife.
Rumours have circulated for years about the life and lusts of 71-year-old Zhou Yongkang, a man who at his peak controlled China's police, intelligence networks and law courts, wielding a budget of £70 billion.
But until he was put under investigation on Tuesday, even his name was censored on the Chinese internet, let alone the possibly murky details of his past.
Now, however, the Chinese media has been unleashed. On Wednesday, Caixin, a magazine which has led the coverage of the Communist party's corruption scandals, published lengthy biographies of Zhou's family, including of his first wife, Wang Shuhua.
Ms Wang, a "simple and unsophisticated" woman who met Zhou when they worked together in the 1970s on an oilfield in Liaohe, in Inner Mongolia, died in 2000 in a car crash, leaving Zhou free to remarry a glamorous television anchor 28 years his junior.
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