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

[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.

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2001130508038676709

Rob Reiner’s Close Friends Billy Crystal, Larry David and More Release Statement After Director’s Death: ‘He Was Always At the Top of His Game’

Rob Reiner was honored by Billy Crystal, Larry David and more in a joint statement on Tuesday.

variety.com

A group of Rob Reiner’s closest friends and collaborators, including Billy Crystal, Larry David, Martin Short and Albert Brooks, released a joint statement on Tuesday in remembrance of the prolific filmmaker and his wife, Michele Singer.

[…]

Along with Crystal, David, Short and Brooks, signatures from Barry Levinson, film writer Alan Zweibel, U.S Ambassador to Spain James Costos and composer Marc Shaiman also appeared on the statement.

[…]

 

[Luna20]

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.

True. Drugs multiplied his many demons.

What would be the answer to harnessing someone like that at an early age?

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2001136853374644368

 

[Zinn]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2001136853374644368

Looks like 26th and San Vicente, less than half a mile from the home.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

Respectfully, Showbiz-411 (cited and/or attributed by DM), first suggested MR was found alive, and died not in the house but on her way to the hospital, by its publication on December 15, 2025 8:39 pm, By Roger Friedman.

However, following today's press conference at 4 pm ET by LA County DA -- announcing the formal charges against NR, I believe we can safely debunk the earlier published suggestion!

To be clear, during the conference, Chief Jim McDonnell read a brief statement confirming that LAPD officers from the West LA division responded to a death investigation in Brentwood. Upon entering the residence of Rob & Michelle Reiner, they discovered their bodies. Detectives from the Robbery-Homicide Division (Homicide Special), immediately initiated a comprehensive investigation, and the evidence gathered led to the arrest of their son, NR.

Presser is linked numerous times in this thread.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned in the thread, but tonight on the news, I heard them say that rigor mortis had set in, so they surmised the couple had been dead for as many as 12 hours by the time they were discovered.