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

[Gemmie]

Daily Mail has video of when he was arrested. If you blow it up, it looks like he has a red backpack over his left shoulder.

VIDEO: Exclusive Daily Mail footage shows Nick Reiner arrest | Daily Mail Online

I couldn't see a red backpack in the video you posted. I found one that's clearer.

 

[ttjo]

Same.

Of course we don’t know this family personally, but IMO these parents tried extensively and in every way to help Nick. He’s 32, didn’t have children where maybe then his parents would’ve taken them in; but otherwise at his age, making his choices, I think they seem to have tried everything.

Man, it’s not easy to lay down the law when it’s your kid. They tried tough love, 18+ times and it didnt work. so They probably thought they may as well try something else, What do they have to lose, what’s the alternative ? Does that mean that unless you abandon your child you’re considered a co dep. Rob Reiner is also a public figure I cant imagine what people would have said if he did abandon his kid. “ Super rich director doesn’t care about….” He couldn’t win.

As for Rob not letting Nick talk too much in interviews, I see some of that but Rob Reiner was a BIG personality, an actor but also a director, accustomed to directing.

I kind of saw it as a bit of saving face ( nicks face) I dont want to say rescuing because it has a bad connotation, but Nick was flat and disconnected, He struggled to give answers that a host could build on, he was occasionally rude. Half the time he couldn’t remember the question or would take digs at his dad. Rob was trying to make him look better. IMO before Nick put his foot in his own mouth. At one point Rob had to clarify a question for Nick b/c he must been daydreaming or something. he was very awkward. ( that being Charlie interview is very telling iIMO)

That was his style and it’s what gave Nick a luxurious life. And also in an interview, Rob is “on.” In their private life at home, I believe Nick got an enormous amount of attention, as he was the problem child.

And aged 32, if he didn’t want to be around his father, or around either parent, he could have packed his bags and stayed away permanently, and try to make it on his own.

JMO

 

[Luna20]

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

It is in my opinion, it screams of revenge. Knowing that the people were famous and peers of his parents, it was to embarrass them. ‘I’m going to make my father angry and take it one step further by asking his friends if they are famous’. That is so condescending and disrespectful. He has deep rooted anger. Maybe jealous that his father was an upstanding person and contributed positively to society. .

 

[Herat]

It is in my opinion, it screams of revenge. Knowing that the people were famous and peers of his parents, it was to embarrass them. ‘I’m going to make my father angry and take it one step further by asking his friends if they are famous’. That is so condescending and disrespectful. He has deep rooted anger. Maybe jealous that his father was an upstanding person and contributed positively to society. .

I agree @Luna2

Whatever had been going on at home was continued into the party where he sabotaged his parents by getting high and acting out to embarass them, knowing a fight would ensue.

How that accelerated into double murder is something we might never understand.

 

[ttjo]

I agree @Luna2

Whatever had been going on at home was continued into the party where he sabotaged his parents by getting high and acting out to embarass them, knowing a fight would ensue.

How that accelerated into double murder is something we might never understand.

I keep thinking about How when compared to the actor in the doc” being Charlie and the host said you seem more mild mannered. Nick said “ oh I go crazy” almost like he was bragging a little. Rob said he could get heated too sometimes. I bet it often resulted in a power struggle. I bet some of it was about control for Nick. He couldn’t beat his dad at anything else, so he wore him down instead.

 

[MassGuy]

Ok, so this changes the timeline a bit. I figured he murdered them right after they left the party, but it now appears he wandered around for a few hours, returned, murdered them, and then checked into a hotel.

Nick Reiner appeared to be totally calm as he walked near his parent’s Brentwood home just hours before they were butchered, sending shockwaves through Hollywood.

The 32-year-old — dressed in blue jeans, a long-sleeve shirt, baseball cap and carrying a backpack — strolled by a local gas station just before midnight Saturday, as seen in footage obtained by The Post.

Rob and Michele were killed early Sunday morning, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney. The new surveillance footage places Nick close to the family home hours before his parents’ slayings.

Eerie video shows Nick Reiner calmly strolling near parents’ home hours before gruesome murders

The footage shows Nick Reiner just hours after he had a blow up fight with his parents at Conan O’Brien’s party.

nypost.com

 

[Luna20]

That's addiction talking: It's so.simple - just give me endless money, a nice place to live, and leave me alone to be high.

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

“kind of taking some pills”

That’s a true statement of an addict. It’s either Yes or No to pills, “kinda” is a term of denial. Lack of accountability by default when “kinda” is in the conversation.

 

[Luna20]

I agree @Luna2

Whatever had been going on at home was continued into the party where he sabotaged his parents by getting high and acting out to embarass them, knowing a fight would ensue.

How that accelerated into double murder is something we might never understand.

It makes me wonder if his brain is so fried from the drugs that it led him to do this, or was he of sound mind, literally acting out of anger and revenge. I suppose it could be both, it’s just unreal.

 

[MassGuy]

It makes me wonder if his brain is so fried from the drugs that it led him to do this, or was he of sound mind, literally acting out of anger and revenge. I suppose it could be both, it’s just unreal.

Accounts from those who knew him paint a picture of guy who was out of control, even as a child.

Drugs can’t help though.