While President Donald Trump’s leak of sensitive information to the Russians dominated much of the news cycle early last week, Fox News featured a wholly different, but equally politically charged, piece of its own.

Now, it has retracted the story.

Here’s the statement:

“On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed. We will continue to investigate this story and will provide updates as warranted.

According to “investigative sources” cited in the original story, Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer who was gunned down last summer by unknown assailants in the streets of Washington, D.C., leaked thousands of internal emails to WikiLeaks before he was killed.

“My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” Rod Wheeler, a former District of Columbia homicide detective and contributor, told Fox News. “I do believe that the answers to who murdered Seth Rich sits on his computer on a shelf at the D.C. police or FBI headquarters. ... [S]omeone within the D.C. government, DNC or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward.”

This, of course, played nicely into the narrative of “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, which was one of the internet’s — and Trump’s — favorite talking points during the election. And it was, once again, as “Seth Rich” emerged as a top trending hashtag:

But, before the retraction, Rich’s relatives made it clear that they weren’t having it.

“It’s sad but unsurprising that a group of media outlets who have repeatedly lied to the American people would try and manipulate the legacy of a murder victim in order to forward their own political agenda,” a spokesman for the Rich family told Business Insider. “I think there is a special place in hell for people like that.”

The family issued a statement of its own last week, in which it said, it remains “committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth’s murderers.”

In March, Aaron Rich started a GoFundMe page with the goal of raising $200,000 to help find his brother’s killers. So far, nearly $27,000 has been donated.

“Many people have used my brother’s murder for their own agendas,” he wrote. “Every few weeks another conspiracy theory surfaces, another promise of credible information and another lack of evidence to support the crazy claims being made.”

CNN ran a story on Monday about how Fox News staffers were frustrated that the station, led by prime-time host Sean Hannity, continues to peddle the conspiracy theory, even after the cracks in the report emerged.

“I’m disgusted by it,” a Fox News worker told CNN.

One senior level Fox employee was quoted as saying, “It is disappointing because it drags the rest of us down,” while another said Hannity will likely keep at it in an attempt to “distract from any and all Trump scandals.”