The mobile phone belonging to Zalina Shaharah Azman, 58, a former newsreader at a television station, was turned off on Nov 20 last year, said Shah Alam district police chief ACP Mohd Iqbal Ibrahim.

He said that based on the investigation, police believed that Zalina, 58, might have disappeared earlier than Nov 29, the date that she was reported missing.

“We wouldn’t have known that she had gone missing if...