CA - Murder victims Identified as Rob Reiner and wife Michele - LA Dec 14 2025

[LetsSolvIt]

Addiction is a god awful disease. My son just died a week ago of a drug overdose. I’m still trying to find my way here. Like the old saying Can’t lead a horse to water. It’s been a very tough week. So I understand the pain they had when it came to their son. It’s just a very tough situation.

My heart goes out to you, @Pattyj82060.

What a horrible tragedy — and especially hard this time of year. Take good care of yourself — hope you are surrounding yourself with all the support you can find. Remember the Three C’s: you didn’t cause the addiction, it wasn’t yours to control or cure. May God’s peace be with you.

 

[AuDHD]

I’m struggling to find an MSM source but I had seen somewhere that there was discussion of entering nick into a conservatorship, that may have pushed him over the edge that night.

oddly when i search the terms Nick Reiner Conservatorship, I see a huff post blog post mention it that cites the LA times as the source. Now I don’t read huff po, and doubt it’s an approved source… but I’m like “Cool, LA times is msm,” but the article they link back to makes no mention of the conservatorship issue, so Idk if it was retracted or if huff po is not doing due diligence (both?).
In the interest of thoroughness, and with the help of my good friend caffeine, I looked through a few other LA times articles about Reiner’s death and didn’t find anything there either. So odd… I guess we will find out in due time if that was something that was either on the table or that they said they were going to initiate after the blowup at the Christmas party.

Also speaking to someone’s point up thread, according to NY post tabloid, it does appear that they were likely murdered shortly after the Christmas party with him checking into a hotel at around 4 AM Sunday morning, presumably just after the murder. Then when he checked out (i mean, got arrested) they found blood in the shower and on the bed of the hotel room.

At the Reiner’s home on sunday afternoon a massage therapist rang the doorbell at 2pm for a scheduled appointment, but got no answer. Then their daughter stopped by at approx 3:40pm and found the bodies.

all JMO unless source cited!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Reiners' son made guests uneasy at party day before his parents were found dead, sources say

Two sources told NBC News that Nick Reiner, 32, interrupted a conversation at the party, which was hosted by comedian Conan O'Brien.

www.nbcnews.com

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner had been disruptive at a holiday party Saturday with his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, according to two people familiar with the situation, just hours before they were found dead in their Los Angeles home.

Nick Reiner, who was arrested Sunday and later booked on suspicion of murder, made other guests uncomfortable with his behavior at the holiday party, which was hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien, one person said. Another person said Reiner’s parents were upset and embarrassed about their son’s behavior at the party and expressed worries about his health.

The two people asked that their names be withheld because of the sensitivity of the matter...

 

[bearfossils]

It sounds like NR has a long-standing history of mental illness that has been exasperated by addiction. The two can go hand-in-hand with one another: a mental disorder can spur on addiction issues, and drug and alcohol use can in turn trigger symptoms. Sadly, it seems as though NR has been in an exhaustive cycle between the two, making it all but inevitable that something awful would happen. I doubt his parents ever truly believed that something would be their murder at their son’s hands.

It’s gut-wrenching on so many levels. My heart goes out to the other children. I can’t imagine what they’re going through right now.

 

[NuttMegg]

I’m struggling to find an MSM source but I had seen somewhere that there was discussion of entering nick into a conservatorship, that may have pushed him over the edge that night.

oddly when i search the terms Nick Reiner Conservatorship, I see a huff post blog post mention it that cites the LA times as the source. Now I don’t read huff po, and doubt it’s an approved source… but I’m like “Cool, LA times is msm,” but the article they link back to makes no mention of the conservatorship issue, so Idk if it was retracted or if huff po is not doing due diligence (both?).
In the interest of thoroughness, and with the help of my good friend caffeine, I looked through a few other LA times articles about Reiner’s death and didn’t find anything there either. So odd… I guess we will find out in due time if that was something that was either on the table or that they said they were going to initiate after the blowup at the Christmas party.

Also speaking to someone’s point up thread, according to NY post tabloid, it does appear that they were likely murdered shortly after the Christmas party with him checking into a hotel at around 4 AM Sunday morning, presumably just after the murder. Then when he checked out (i mean, got arrested) they found blood in the shower and on the bed of the hotel room.

At the Reiner’s home on sunday afternoon a massage therapist rang the doorbell at 2pm for a scheduled appointment, but got no answer. Then their daughter stopped by at approx 3:40pm and found the bodies.

all JMO unless source cited!

I saw the reference to conservatorship too. (Where?)

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I’m struggling to find an MSM source but I had seen somewhere that there was discussion of entering nick into a conservatorship, that may have pushed him over the edge that night.

oddly when i search the terms Nick Reiner Conservatorship, I see a huff post blog post mention it that cites the LA times as the source. Now I don’t read huff po, and doubt it’s an approved source… but I’m like “Cool, LA times is msm,” but the article they link back to makes no mention of the conservatorship issue, so Idk if it was retracted or if huff po is not doing due diligence (both?).
In the interest of thoroughness, and with the help of my good friend caffeine, I looked through a few other LA times articles about Reiner’s death and didn’t find anything there either. So odd… I guess we will find out in due time if that was something that was either on the table or that they said they were going to initiate after the blowup at the Christmas party.

Also speaking to someone’s point up thread, according to NY post tabloid, it does appear that they were likely murdered shortly after the Christmas party with him checking into a hotel at around 4 AM Sunday morning, presumably just after the murder. Then when he checked out (i mean, got arrested) they found blood in the shower and on the bed of the hotel room.

At the Reiner’s home on sunday afternoon a massage therapist rang the doorbell at 2pm for a scheduled appointment, but got no answer. Then their daughter stopped by at approx 3:40pm and found the bodies.

all JMO unless source cited!

I hope we do find out more about the conservatorship.. I should learn more too. ..with my friend, Goog.

All the misery these parents had to live with over so many years....
Is there anything that we can learn here?
I am at a losss.

 

[NuttMegg]

I’m struggling to find an MSM source but I had seen somewhere that there was discussion of entering nick into a conservatorship, that may have pushed him over the edge that night.

oddly when i search the terms Nick Reiner Conservatorship, I see a huff post blog post mention it that cites the LA times as the source. Now I don’t read huff po, and doubt it’s an approved source… but I’m like “Cool, LA times is msm,” but the article they link back to makes no mention of the conservatorship issue, so Idk if it was retracted or if huff po is not doing due diligence (both?).
In the interest of thoroughness, and with the help of my good friend caffeine, I looked through a few other LA times articles about Reiner’s death and didn’t find anything there either. So odd… I guess we will find out in due time if that was something that was either on the table or that they said they were going to initiate after the blowup at the Christmas party.

Also speaking to someone’s point up thread, according to NY post tabloid, it does appear that they were likely murdered shortly after the Christmas party with him checking into a hotel at around 4 AM Sunday morning, presumably just after the murder. Then when he checked out (i mean, got arrested) they found blood in the shower and on the bed of the hotel room.

At the Reiner’s home on sunday afternoon a massage therapist rang the doorbell at 2pm for a scheduled appointment, but got no answer. Then their daughter stopped by at approx 3:40pm and found the bodies.

all JMO unless source cited!

See post #310 on this thread. I ddon't know how to bump a post. Re conservatorship.

But I remember reading an article too, not just a post here. Maybe LA Times edited out that quote.

 

[Inthedetails]

It got physical at the party?

No. It got physical during the murder.

jmo

 

[AuDHD]

I hope we do find out more about the conservatorship.. I should learn more too. ..with my friend, Goog.

All the misery these parents had to live with over so many years....
Is there anything that we can learn here?
I am at a losss.

What I take away most is that no matter the resources, time, and patience one throws at addiction, it’s an extremely difficult thing to overcome and curing it needs more resources devoted to it.

We need less stigma around it, more research, probably some sort of pharmaceutical breakthrough as well. I know drugs arent the end all, be all. But, they are one tool in the toolkit, of course.

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all JMO!

 

[Inthedetails]

There's just no justification for killing, and killing so brutally.

However.

I'm wondering what it does to a person, a CHILD, when his extended family/friends circle decides to not only publicise his struggles, but monetise them. He had absolutely no privacy. Years before drugs entered the frame, someone wrote a book about him, presumably without informed consent because a child can't consent because they have no concept of what that means.

Nick seems to have slowly, continuously imploded his whole life, and had to do it in a spotlight.

Yes, he had choices, and made a lot of bad ones, but I wonder about those choices made for him, and how much extra weight they added. They can't have helped.

MOO

There is the philosophy that by helping others, you heal yourself. Just like by teaching others, you yourself learn.

It could be that the movie felt like pressure to NR, but if you live in a family culture that values altruism and actively contributing to society, you're going to be subjected to it.

I think the parents were desparate to do anything to help their son, and just like every other parent in the situation, they don't know the right thing to do. Sticking to your own values would be a solid route to take, and I can understand the decision to make a movie.

I can also understand the effort was lost on Nick. The joint project didn't work.

jmopinion

 

[AuDHD]

See post #310 on this thread. I ddon't know how to bump a post. Re conservatorship.

But I remember reading an article too, not just a post here. Maybe LA Times edited out that quote.

what’s odd is it looks like that is the same article that huff post sent me to and it looks like that paragraph has been removed. However, the LA times had been quoted by other sources before that point.

There are blog type outlets that just regurgitate MSM articles verbatim in their entirety. So, when I search for the exact phrasing that’s quoted in post 310, from the LA Times article cited, i see other “articles” that are literally just that OG LA times article reposted but with that quote included. here’s an example. I tried the way back machine thing, but it didn’t have screen grabs going back too far, just one from 17:10 yesterday.

So, that’s my guess : that particular statement “One law enforcement source said that conservatorship arrangements were in the works for Nick at the time of the deaths. In interviews, Nick praised his parents for helping him find sobriety but also said he was trying to forge his own life.” originally appeared as its own little blurb, just after the paragraph that begins “They did everything for Nick” and subsequently has been removed, for whatever reason.

jmo

 

[Inthedetails]

I can imagine the guests at that party and Nick asking them
“ are you famous? Did he truly not know or was he trying to make people feel like they were nobodies, like he didnt know who they were, It’s almost antagonistic

This is PURE SPECULATION, but perhaps he didn't want to go to the party with a bunch of famous people and his parents told him not everyone would be famous. So he was asking people at the party if they were famous as an f.u. to his parents. JUST A GUESS.

jmopinion

 

[tlcya]

Hotel room Nick Reiner fled to after allegedly murdering parents was covered in blood: report

I am praying for Romy, I can't imagine discovering my parents in such a state, and to know your own brother is responsible. Just so traumatic.

I pray when Nick realizes what he has done, the finality and horror of his actions, that God forgive his soul. I struggle with praying for him, but I will, because addiction and mental illness are both awful demons and when coupled and intertwined they are their own version of hell, even if partially self created.

 

[Seattle1]

In podcast, Nick Reiner recalled rampant drug use, a heart emergency at 24, trashing a guesthouse

12/15/25

In a Dopey podcast interview seven years ago, then-24-year-old Reiner called in to the program to talk about his experience of relapsing on methamphetamine. The podcast focuses on addiction and recovery.

Reiner said he remembered that, about a year before, he was taking “cocaine and something else” and was up for days on end.

“I started punching out different things in my guesthouse. ... I started with the TV and then I went over to the lamp and then progressed,” Reiner said on the podcast. “Everything in the house got wrecked.”

That prompted him to leave Los Angeles for a recovery center in Boston in an effort to get sober.

But on his plane ride to Boston, Reiner said he was on meth and suboxone, a prescription medication to treat opioid addiction, and while airborne he said he had a heart attack.

“I literally passed out on the plane and I woke up in a hospital [in Boston],” he said.

After the hospital in Boston, Reiner said he ended up in a sober living home in Maine. But the goal of recovery was in vain because he said he just wanted to go home.

“Wanted to go back to my old life of smoking weed, kind of taking some pills, like doing whatever I wanted,” he said.

Rob Reiner’s son arrested in fatal stabbings of the Hollywood legend and his wife

Rob Reiner’s son Nick was booked into the Los Angeles County jail Sunday on suspicion of murder, records show, hours after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home.

www.latimes.com

 

[Bekind89]

Hotel room Nick Reiner fled to after allegedly murdering parents was covered in blood: report

I am praying for Romy, I can't imagine discovering my parents in such a state, and to know your own brother is responsible. Just so traumatic.

I pray when Nick realizes what he has done, the finality and horror of his actions, that God forgive his soul. I struggle with praying for him, but I will, because addiction and mental illness are both awful demons and when coupled and intertwined they are their own version of hell, even if partially self created.

Nick will go through hell just detoxing in jail. That will be brutal, but not as brutal as how he killed his parents.

 

[Seattle1]

I saw the reference to conservatorship too. (Where?)

This passage was referenced by LA Times authors on 12/15/25, but the statement has been removed from updated LA Times link initially quoted.

However, other MSM, sourcing from the LA Times, are repeating the same passage, including Tribune News Service (TNS) AL.com below:

12/15/25

One family friend said they were horrified over the deaths of Rob and Michele.

“They did everything for Nick. Every treatment program, therapy sessions and put aside their lives to save Nick’s repeatedly. I have never known a family so dedicated to a child.” the friend said. “To have it end this way is awful,” the friend said.

One law enforcement source said that conservatorship arrangements were in the works for Nick at the time of the deaths.

In interviews, Nick praised his parents for helping him find sobriety but also said he was trying to forge his own life.

NPR asked them whether they’d want to work together again after “Being Charlie.”

“I think for now, it’s best for me at least to be sort of independent. But that’s not to say I didn’t have an amazing experience,” Nick said. (Based on IMDb, he did not have any other movie roles.)

Rob added: “He was the heart and soul of the film and any time I would get an opportunity to work with him I would do it, but I do understand him wanting to forge his own way. I do know what that’s about, I went through it, and he’s brilliant and talented and he’s going to figure out his path.”

Rob Reiner, son fought at Hollywood Christmas party hours before parents’ murders

Many people noticed the son acting strangely at the party.

www.al.com

 

[ttjo]

This is PURE SPECULATION, but perhaps he didn't want to go to the party with a bunch of famous people and his parents told him not everyone would be famous. So he was asking people at the party if they were famous as an f.u. to his parents. JUST A GUESS.

jmopinion

This is also possible, I never considered that he might not want to hob knob with the rich and famous, that actually might fit better.

 

[Wishbone]

This is also possible, I never considered that he might not want to hob knob with the rich and famous, that actually might fit better.

This sums up what NR wanted to do......

“I come from a nice family,” he said. “I’m not supposed to be out there on the streets and in homeless shelters doing all these… things.” “just wanted to get back to my old life of like smoking weed, kind of taking some pills, like doing whatever I wanted.” “Just everybody use or don’t use… whatever.”

Who is Nick Reiner? Son of Rob, Michele Reiner booked for murder in parents' deaths

The younger Reiner has long struggled with mental illness and addiction, and collaborated with his father on the semi-autobiographical movie "Being Charlie."

www.yahoo.com

 

[Justice101]

My opinion is Nick was high on something and maybe got paranoid from people giving him awkward looks at the party due to his behavior. He probably over-thought it and concluded it was some kind of conspiracy from his father and may have confronted his parents who probably re-emphasized how uncomfortable he was making the guests. He may have snapped and taken their lives then.

60 years ago before Reagan, he would have been institutionalized and this couldn't have happened.

 

[Cedars]

What I take away most is that no matter the resources, time, and patience one throws at addiction, it’s an extremely difficult thing to overcome and curing it needs more resources devoted to it.

I think many people are eternal material optimists, believing there's no problem that can't be fixed if we throw enough money and science at it. Or enough love.

For myself, I believe there is a tragic side to life, and human nature. And no one ever is or ever will be, guaranteed a happily ever after.

What I think about is, who were the monsters who introduced young Nick to drugs, and sold them to him over and over again, profiting from this misery.