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

[Really?]

it sounds like he went to these ultra expensive spa like rehabs and did some time. that was not what he needed. there seemed to be some idea if we throw lots of money at this drug problem it will go away along with the mental illness. It all just got worse and worse. Reports are out there from various sources that Rob seemed worn down and not looking great in the last months. I think things were really spiraling out of control.

I bet RR looked worn out.
Imagine…you’re stuck with a 32 yo “kid”. They should have been empty nesters by now. Reaping the rewards of hosting family gatherings with grandchildren bouncing all over the place.

Instead…there they were. Still raising a child. Worrying. Waiting.

ETA not against you turaj. Just bouncing

 

[BUF]

Please don't judge my ignorance but is it possible to pretend to be schizophrenic.

I don't mean any offence in my question I'm just curious

Do you mean like feigning a mental illness like that movie with Richard Gere and Ed Norton in “Primal Fear”?

 

[Arkay]

If NR has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and it is documented that he was largely unregulated in the months leading up to the murders, I do think the insanity plea is legitimate. That doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be held accountable, and should be in an appropriate facility away from society. This is a horrific tragedy for his family at so many levels, and I think all of our prayers are needed.

As a society, we still struggle with honoring an individual’s right to privacy, and their civil liberties. We have to rely on the judgment of physicians to determine whether an individual is an immediate risk and threat to society. The law is very precise on this point; we can’t just throw individuals in jail or institutions because they are acting unbalanced. There has to be a real and active threat to themselves or others.

Because of the financial resources that the Reiner family has, it is likely that NR will live out his life in a therapeutic, but likely very comfortable setting.

My prayers continue for the Reiner family, and may the memories of Rob and Michele be a blessing.

Amateur opinion and speculation only.

I vacillate between wanting him to be locked in prison forever or wanting him confined forever to a very secure psychiatric facility.

I don’t think he was out of his wits like some are, where he did not know he was slitting the throats of his parents. He went to their home from his guesthouse, he went to their bedroom, he made sure he got both of them, and he didn’t seem frenzied in the footage from the store.

IMO as a layperson, this doesn’t seem similar to those cases of psychosis when people think they are slicing a watermelon or something, when they genuinely do not know what they are doing, as is often claimed in sleepwalking murders.

I do think that his parents were at a loss and had tried literally everything, even something we cannot do like making a film to deal with this in the third person.

In my view here were two adoring parents with a very troubled son, and that son resented everything about them.

May their memories be a blessing.

 

[SaraSmile]

I don't think his parents were "naive." They'd had to deal with him and those who treated him for his whole life. Nick probably should have been institutionalized long ago, but Rob and Michelle likely didn't want to do that. They preferred to try to let him live in society, even though that really infringed on their lives and the lives of their other children.

Agreed, he needed to be institutionalized long ago.

 

[Sundog]

Mostly just a headline.


Nick Reiner, son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, faces murder charges for their deaths. Inheritance at stake due to California's Slayer Rule.

MSN

 

[su5ie]

Do you mean like feigning a mental illness like that movie with Richard Gere and Ed Norton in “Primal Fear”?

Never watched that movie but yes feigning schizophrenia

 

[Arkay]

Mostly just a headline.


Nick Reiner, son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, faces murder charges for their deaths. Inheritance at stake due to California's Slayer Rule.

MSN

YIKES!

IMO this isn’t even a question—NO, NICK SHOULD NOT INHERIT $200,000,000!

This isn’t exactly a case of parents who died in their time of natural causes, and he should not be rewarded with the money his parents earned through a lifetime of talent and work.

 

[JDG]

If NR gets life in prison, he will be in prison.

If he gets incarcerated in a mental institution, he could be released at some point.

This is no longer about what ‘the family wants’ it’s about the law and society.

He needs, IMO, to be locked up for the rest of his life without any chance of release.

 

[JDG]

YIKES!

IMO this isn’t even a question—NO, NICK SHOULD NOT INHERIT $200,000,000!

This isn’t exactly a case of parents who died in their time of natural causes, and he should not be rewarded with the money his parents earned through a lifetime of talent and work.

I would assume it’s the estate that is paying for his hot shot attorney.

ETA: if the slayers law applies, he should not be able to use the estate to pay, should he?

 

[Ghostwheel]

Photos of the hotel are available and yes there were window treatments. At some point NR hung a sheet over the window, reportedly. I offer no interpretations.

I offer the interpretation that all window treatments in hotels have gaps. In the center, around the edges, etc. A sheet offers no gap in the center and can be tucked or extended over the sides to minimize edge gaps. Another layer to keep light and possibly prying eyes out. JMO.

 

[Seattle1]

12/21/25

Psychiatrist Listens to Nick Reiner's Schizophrenia Defense​

 

[Elley Mae]

My opinion only, Nick was not treated affectively( not victim blaming, parents couldn’t fathom, didn’t understand). Press keeps saying parents did everything they could, not true! They mainly enabled Nick, by letting him come home on drugs, or stay when he was using. Sending a young man to so many 30 day treatments, only to come home, use again, was so foolish on the parents part, they didn’t know better. 30 day programs just give a very short window of sobriety, but usually not enough “tools” to stay sober, live a fulfilling life without drugs. That takes time, and a sober support community ongoing.
For chronic relapsers, there are 9 month, 12 month, even 1.5 year programs( see Teen Challenge, not just for teens, all ages now, plus many other long programs), with more durable results. The patient is given more and more freedom as they progress. It’s not about control, the patient does have to want it and mainly commit( counselors, peers help them to ward off urges).
it sounds like Nick needed to be around people where he felt he had some agency( not famous, super accomplished people who he compared himself with, made him feel small, insignificant). Many of these longer programs have people eventually write a resume get a job, go to job successfully, open bank account, all before leaving the halfway house.
Also, the movie, Being Charlie, was all Rob’s idea to try to get Nick to commit to sobriety, LOCK IN his sobriety date, when he publicly committed to Sobriety onscreen! Rob probably thought, for sure, Nick would not relapse after making a film and publicly committing to sobriety, press tour for film. Alas, Rob did not understand addiction, or even his own son enough to know that this would not work.

Jmo
Schizophrenia was the bigger issue with Nick, not drugs. How his family dealt with the Schizophrenia and the meds he was prescribed for that on top of the “drugs” he was taking could have had an effect on him at the party. Iirc his parent called asking for him to come, then the argument that was talked about and Nick asking people if they were famous.

Idk
Jmo

 

[LifeIsAMystery]

Agreed, he needed to be institutionalized long ago.

Unlikely to be able to do it involuntarily even if they wanted to prior to this. Not just in CA. Laws make it very difficult and in addition, there are few treatment slots available. If a hold is ordered it tends to be fairly short. And having him become homeless again would continue to pose a threat to public. Sidewalks and prisons function as mental institutions nowadays.

 

[Elley Mae]

I have to wonder if it was easier for the Reiner’s to say Nick had a drug problem, (in and out of rehab) then to say that their son was schizophrenic?

Jmo

So sad for all around.

 

[BUF]

reports were that he was standing at that intersection for quite some time. Was he used to scoring drugs there? Or what was going on?

Don’t know, but the gang and narcotics detectives were also involved in him being picked up.

Rob Reiner's Son Charged With Murder As New Details Emerge

The LAPD’s robbery homicide unit, gang and narcotics detectives, and a U.S. Marshals Service task force contributed to discovering Nick Reiner, amounting to “good, solid police work,” McDonnell said.

 

[LinasK]

ITA, I think the other train of thought is it's his defense lawyers (team?) leaking this to the media to already plant the idea to maybe even potential jurors to blame meds for this crime and not him MOO JMO

That's exactly what they are doing, and therefore by extension blaming the doctors who prescribed him the medication/didn't insist he be kept inpatient in some facility for observation.

 

[nao]

Moo..having mental health issues, brings no pleasures. You realize you are 'different' but your mind and thought process are the only one you know. Street drugs are a great equalizer.. everyone is a mess when high. If you come from a wealthy family.. people are going to be wanting a piece of that. Drug suppliers hang around money. The thing about street drugs is this misconception that you get clean and suddenly a productive normal person...nope that is a unrealistic dream. Schizophrenia is not something I would wish on anyone. Most random extreme violence aka stabbing on public transit is done by schizo people. The are just an accident waiting to happen. Maybe this situation will cause a public conversation. Many parents have adult children with mental health issues...and the parents or family members do end up dead.....moo

 

[doublestop]

I wonder if the reason he was asking people if they were famous is that he already had in mind making his name by murdering someone famous. Then his parents hustled him out of there and became the vicitms.

 

[Little Jack]

My mom always told me, "as a parent, you are only ever as happy as your least happy child."
Just a thought that keep echoing in my mind, how unhappy and worried they must have always been for him.

 

[Walela]

I would assume it’s the estate that is paying for his hot shot attorney.

ETA: if the slayers law applies, he should not be able to use the estate to pay, should he?

For the slayer law to apply he has to be convicted. Prior to any conviction, the estate can pay for his attorney if it wants to. My question : is there is someone that has a power of attorney that can access those millions. and if so, who would that be? A will takes time to probate; so will a trial...which one comes first remains to be seen. I would speculate that AJ has been hired with a down payment knowing full well his bill will be paid when the estate is settled.
moo