On the morning of August 15, Chengdu's major media outlets successively received a tip-off about "a photo of a car sticker to look for a missing wife". Xiao, aged 59, has been married for five years to Zhu, who is 25 this year; however, Zhu went missing on the 11th day of the previous month. When the reporter interviewed Mr. Xiao, he was detained for half an hour by Xiao and his company's "chief of security", who also tore up the reporter's notepad.