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

[LinasK]

Just an aside...this young man who had a very long-standing drug problem was brought along to a Hollywood party presumably by his parents? The very last place someone with his history should have been at. There's usually a lot of drinking at these parties and possibly drug use?
I'm not famous but have been at some of these parties in the past. Open bar, also marijuana and other drugs. I'm talking forty years ago (I'm old) but I don't think things have changed much.

I read that Rob brought him to keep an eye on him. Maybe worried that he'd have used drugs at home alone or with a friend.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Nick opened up even further about his ups and downs with drugs during a 2018 episode of the "Dopey" podcast, where he confessed to stealing $200 dollars from his parents at age 15 to lose his virginity to a sex worker. He also revealed he once "wrecked" his parents' guest house while high. "I got totally spun out on uppers - I think it was coke and something else - and I was up for days on end," he shared on the episode. "I started punching out different things in my guest house. I literally punched the TV." When asked if there was a thought process to destroying the property, Nick replied, "You're crazy. No logic."

Read more at: https://www.tri-cityherald.com/entertainment/us-weekly/article313738172.html#storylink=cpy

 

[LinasK]

from the jail site

Bail
Total Bail Amount NO BAIL
Total Hold Bail Amount 0.00
Grand Total NO BAIL

Court
Next Court Code M30
Next Court Date 12/16/2025
Next Court Time 0830
Next Court Case 9999999999
Court Name LOS ANGELES MUNI CT DIV 30
Court Address 210 W. TEMPLE STREET
Court City LOS ANGELESUPT


link: https://app5.lasd.org/iic/Details

I'm glad it was changed from $4million to NO Bail. Murder should be no bail. Wouldn't want a rich person with a grudge against Reiner to bail Nick out.

 

[wendybtn]

I suspect he never even tried to hold one. After all, he was from a "good" family

Not lost on me that he seemed to resent his father's success and yet also seemed to think that success should afford him a life of ease and a nonstop party.

I think he resented his grandfather, too.

 

[wendybtn]

Oh no, not AJ again with his third-party culprit defense strategy! With all due respect for his work, of course. But... three times in a year.?!

MOO JMO

I pray the parent's money isn't going toward his defense.

 

[JennieM]

Dramatic new footage shows moment cops arrest Nick Reiner

Video exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail shows police cars with flashing lights descend on a busy intersection in downtown Los Angeles about 15 miles from the Reiner family's home.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[JennieM]

Terrible music, maybe mute it before watching.

 

[osu]

One report on Showbiz 411 suggests Michele, 70, was still alive when she was found and died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital after she had told first responders her son was the one who attacked them.

The Los Angeles Police Department has not officially confirmed any details of where in the house the Reiners' bodies were found.


Rob Reiner and wife Michele had throats slit in their bed

 

[BUF]

Investigators are not sure yet if the murders occurred on Saturday night or Sunday, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said.

“We are waiting on the coroner to be able and to try and determine as best they can time of death,” he said.

https://www.cnn.com/entertainment/live-news/rob-michele-reiner-death-investigation-12-16-25-hnk

 

[wendybtn]

He projected the source of his problems onto his parents. Now that they're gone he's going have even worse problems, while slowly realizing that they were never the actual problem to begin with.

If he has some type of personality disorder, he will never get to that place.

 

[arielilane]

@Angenette5


BREAKING: LA DA Nathan Hochman announces his office is filing murder charges against Nick Reiner in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. No decision has been made about pursuing the death penalty but that is an option
@LawCrimeNetwork


4:13 PM · Dec 16, 2025

 

[Stunned]

This is going to be a hugely high profile case, I can see an already high profile attorney offering his services for even more exposure.

It's also entirely possible that people whose beliefs are at odds with the Reiner's have already started donating to a defence fund. I certainly wouldn't be surprised in the current climate unfortunately.

I can see this guy volunteering his services to get his name and face out there! He'll get on all the podcasts and talk shows. This trial will be a money maker for him.

 

[LinasK]

I doubt there was much coherent thought involved. He probably in his drug or psychosis fueled mind saw killing them as a means to remove their continued impeding him living the way he wanted. He may even have thought with them dead he would inherit their wealth and the party would never have to stop.

I am pretty confident their estate plan will end up containing a trust to hold and oversee any funds he might inherit from their estates so he basically killed them for nothing. IMO

I'm quite sure that his siblings will make sure that he doesn't inherit anything!

 

[steeltowngirl]

One report on Showbiz 411 suggests Michele, 70, was still alive when she was found and died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital after she had told first responders her son was the one who attacked them.

The Los Angeles Police Department has not officially confirmed any details of where in the house the Reiners' bodies were found.


Rob Reiner and wife Michele had throats slit in their bed

From the article:

Rob, they say, was dead. But Michele, they say, was alive enough to tell Romy that it was her brother, Nick, who’d tried to kill them.

“He left us here for dead,” the source says Michelle told Romy.

That would explain why almost instantly it was reported that the stabbings were the work of a family member.

 

[Stunned]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2001039590270869999

I wonder if his parents could track him on their phones?

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2000988868682596469

 

[LinasK]

I’m curious about what caused the argument.

The usual I'm guessing. Rob probably told him that he was embarassing them, and that he was getting kicked out/Conservatorship...

 

[BUF]

I can see this guy volunteering his services to get his name and face out there! He'll get on all the podcasts and talk shows. This trial will be a money maker for him.

Alan Jackson’s name and face is already out there….he doesn’t need the pro bono pr

 

[Born2BWild]

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

Respectfully disagree on one point. It was Nick who wrote the screenplay and brought it to his dad. RR helped get a suitable co-writer and used his directorial skills to bring the film to fruition.

 

[LinasK]

He projected the source of his problems onto his parents. Now that they're gone he's going have even worse problems, while slowly realizing that they were never the actual problem to begin with.

Well, he won't have to worry about ever being homeless again and sleeping on the streets. He now gets "3 hots and a cot" as the expression goes.