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

[Betty P]

Yes, and very likely they still found some evidence, even after cleaning.
Overall, Police have been amazing, tracing Nick, arresting so fast!

LE probably ran the family credit cards for recent activity, once they had a SW for them.

 

[MistyWaters]

Where is it posted that he confessed? And the location of the weapon involved? Please provide the source, thank you.

Where did I state it as a fact that NR confessed?? The phrase “for all we know” means the same as “maybe” or “possibly” where I come from.

However the LAPD did state early on that NR was ‘responsible’ for the murders of his parents and considering LE cannot assume the role of pretrial judge and jury, in my opinion he may have confessed to the murders to the arresting officers. Unless he told them, how else could LE flat out say he was responsible? That an ongoing investigation is seeking other parties who murdered the Reiners doesn’t appear to be taking place.
JMO

 

[ttjo]

I wonder where Nick went all day, He didn’t officially check out, but obviously was gone when they cleaned the room,
They probably already checked the 3rd street promenade, there is an Adidas store there, maybe thats where he got his red knapsack. ( at least it looks like Adidas to me)
And his striped jacket looks like adidas too ( but he may have worn that into the hotel)

Modnote: edited to add link to jacket
https://www.nextdirect.com/ca/en/style/su592315/ar9032

 

[sunspun]

I think the consensus is that NR traveled to the Expo Park/USC area to score drugs.

Sounds likely.

Have they said how much money he had on him when he was arrested?

 

[steeltowngirl]

Did he use a credit card in his own name? Does that mean anything, it’’s so traceable like he wasn’t even trying to hide?

According to Page Six, yes.
The outlet reported that Nick checked into the hotel about five minutes later, using his own credit card.

Rob Reiner’s son Nick walks to hotel within hours of parents’ murders in new surveillance footage

Video from a local business on the Santa Monica Pier shows Nick making his way toward the Pierside Santa Monica on Sunday around 4:10 a.m.

pagesix.com

 

[steeltowngirl]

December 29, 2025 – On December 24 at 10:30 a.m., the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner (Department) received a court order, initiated by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), to place a security hold on Medical Examiner case numbers 2025-19480 and 2025-19481, Robert and Michele Reiner. While the cause and manner of death were previously released on these cases, due to the court order, the information is no longer available. No other case information or records, including the Medical Examiner report, can be released or posted on the website until further notice.

Statement on Medical Examiner Case Numbers 2025-19480 and 2025-19481 – County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner

 

[Sadi]

Where did I state it as a fact that NR confessed?? The phrase “for all we know” means the same as “maybe” or “possibly” where I come from.

However the LAPD did state early on that NR was ‘responsible’ for the murders of his parents and considering LE cannot assume the role of pretrial judge and jury, in my opinion he may have confessed to the murders to the arresting officers. Unless he told them, how else could LE flat out say he was responsible? That an ongoing investigation is seeking other parties who murdered the Reiners doesn’t appear to be taking place.
JMO

My apologies, I didn’t mean to offend you. I understand your point “for all we know “.

 

[femto]

Being mentally ill, he doesn’t think or act like a ‘regular’ person.

You cannot expect the same or similar benchmarks.

Nick has not been ‘a kid’ for a very long time.

That was half a lifetime ago for him.

We're talking about how he got to that point where he felt the need to kill his parents, we're not talking about what he became in the end. He wasn't always mentally ill and to imply that would be naive. Furthermore I would say that most mentally ill people and drug addicts don't kill their parents. This is an extremely rare occurance

There's so much in your opinions of the parents' choices I don't know where to start, except here. "For all his wealth he never had any stability in his life."

I really don't know where to start. Maybe to those of us who didn't spend our entire lives in the same mansion, with a guest house to spread out in, with the same wealthy parents from birth, with no particular impetus to get the jobs we had to get at 16, working our way thru higher education...stability means something different.

This is not what we're talking about at all though. He spent most of his teenage years homeless or on rehab. How many kids you know that are homeless in their teenage years and why you don't think that will have some severe mental impact on a kid still growing up? This is not a good upbringing, I don't care if his parents had quadrlillion dollars.

First and foremost he would have to have family and friends able to keep him grounded and stable. His family was enabling him and appeasing way before he got addicted. As for friends, considering his explosive temper I doubt he had any. Anyway, even if there was someone he could call a friend that person would be most probably a teenager, just like Nick. Teenagers struggle to keep themselves grounded, let alone other teens with severe mental issues and addiction to boot. Last but not least, addicts drive their friends away, leaving only enablers.

This is simply not the truth at all given what we know. He was sent to rehab at age 14 and spent the vast majority of his teenage years in rehabs and other therapy boot camps. How is that enabling him? He also by his own words wasn't sent for anything serious but for using antidepressants and smoking pot. He himself only started cocaine and heroin on the advise of other drug addicts he met in rehab. Now you might not choose to believe him, and that is fine, but I myself choose to because he was pretty forthcoming about himself in the Dopey podcast. And as of right now it's the only version we have to go on.

He was off and on homeless or living in hotels and only came back living at home because he agreed to his parents demands that he go through another rehab, therapies, medicine, etc. They never 'appeased' him unless your idea of appeasement was that they completely cut him off everything and let him rot on the streets which I think very few parents would ever do that to their child. And depending on whether he had an inheritance from his grandfather, I don't think they were ever capable of cutting him off. I doubt he brought drugs and other stuff by using their money after all.

 

[Hexe]

This is simply not the truth at all given what we know. He was sent to rehab at age 14 and spent the vast majority of his teenage years in rehabs and other therapy boot camps. How is that enabling him?

He was taken out of these camps at his wish. That's enabling and appeasing (and by the way, he was homeles at his own choice, running away from the rehabs if he was not taken by the psrents soon enough). Whole family was tiptoeing around him, to not set him off. That's enabling.

He also by his own words wasn't sent for anything serious but for using antidepressants and smoking pot. He himself only started cocaine and heroin on the advise of other drug addicts he met in rehab.

He decided to take the heroin on his own, just called a kid he met in rehab to ask where to buy it. By his own words.

 

[Hexe]

He also by his own words wasn't sent for anything serious but for using antidepressants and smoking pot.

By the way, I would not call wellbutrin addiction "not serious".

 

[femto]

He was taken out of these camps at his wish. That's enabling and appeasing (and by the way, he was homeles at his own choice, running away from the rehabs if he was not taken by the psrents soon enough). Whole family was tiptoeing around him, to not set him off. That's enabling.

He was not taken out of the camps, he ran away. And he was allowed to go back home on the condition he goes to another camp, vice versa until he was 20 or something when he said he was exhausted and gave up. And evidently their approach didn't change at all given what we know from his own statements in Dopey and later the information coming through with the therapy and medacine stuff. When you say he was homeless by his own choice, isn't that the case for 99% of the cases when it comes to homelessness?

He decided to take the heroin on his own, just called a kid he met from rehab to ask where to buy it. By his own words.

This is not what he said. He said that he met a guy in rehab that was telling him how good shooting heroin was. They kept contact after their stint was over and went to shoot heroin together afterwards. He said that the first time heroin even crossed his mind was in rehab.

By the way, I would not call wellbutrin addiction "not serious".

I mean... every drug is 'serious'. But compared to what he started using after his rehab stints, I would argue it was pretty mild teenage stuff that most Hollywood nepobabies and actors are on.

 

[JDG]

We're talking about how he got to that point where he felt the need to kill his parents, we're not talking about what he became in the end. He wasn't always mentally ill and to imply that would be naive. Furthermore I would say that most mentally ill people and drug addicts don't kill their parents. This is an extremely rare occurance


This is not what we're talking about at all though. He spent most of his teenage years homeless or on rehab. How many kids you know that are homeless in their teenage years and why you don't think that will have some severe mental impact on a kid still growing up? This is not a good upbringing, I don't care if his parents had quadrlillion dollars.


This is simply not the truth at all given what we know. He was sent to rehab at age 14 and spent the vast majority of his teenage years in rehabs and other therapy boot camps. How is that enabling him? He also by his own words wasn't sent for anything serious but for using antidepressants and smoking pot. He himself only started cocaine and heroin on the advise of other drug addicts he met in rehab. Now you might not choose to believe him, and that is fine, but I myself choose to because he was pretty forthcoming about himself in the Dopey podcast. And as of right now it's the only version we have to go on.

He was off and on homeless or living in hotels and only came back living at home because he agreed to his parents demands that he go through another rehab, therapies, medicine, etc. They never 'appeased' him unless your idea of appeasement was that they completely cut him off everything and let him rot on the streets which I think very few parents would ever do that to their child. And depending on whether he had an inheritance from his grandfather, I don't think they were ever capable of cutting him off. I doubt he brought drugs and other stuff by using their money after all.

NR did not start at the end, he started at the beginning. If you view his childhood pictures it’s obvious that all is not well with him.

People are hardwired from birth, many with mental illness that does not ‘show up’ until later but it’s still there in the hardwiring. I’m not naive at all.

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[femto]

NR did not start at the end, he started at the beginning. If you view his childhood pictures it’s obvious that all is not well with him.

People are hardwired from birth, many with mental illness that does not ‘show up’ until later but it’s still there in the hardwiring. I’m not naive at all.

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Huh? He looks like a completely normal kid. I'm curious how did you come to the conclusion he looks mentally ill in his childhood pictures.

No, people aren't hardwired at birth, that's your opinion.

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[NuttMegg]

We're talking about how he got to that point where he felt the need to kill his parents, we're not talking about what he became in the end. He wasn't always mentally ill and to imply that would be naive. Furthermore I would say that most mentally ill people and drug addicts don't kill their parents. This is an extremely rare occurance


This is not what we're talking about at all though. He spent most of his teenage years homeless or on rehab. How many kids you know that are homeless in their teenage years and why you don't think that will have some severe mental impact on a kid still growing up? This is not a good upbringing, I don't care if his parents had quadrlillion dollars.


This is simply not the truth at all given what we know. He was sent to rehab at age 14 and spent the vast majority of his teenage years in rehabs and other therapy boot camps. How is that enabling him? He also by his own words wasn't sent for anything serious but for using antidepressants and smoking pot. He himself only started cocaine and heroin on the advise of other drug addicts he met in rehab. Now you might not choose to believe him, and that is fine, but I myself choose to because he was pretty forthcoming about himself in the Dopey podcast. And as of right now it's the only version we have to go on.

He was off and on homeless or living in hotels and only came back living at home because he agreed to his parents demands that he go through another rehab, therapies, medicine, etc. They never 'appeased' him unless your idea of appeasement was that they completely cut him off everything and let him rot on the streets which I think very few parents would ever do that to their child. And depending on whether he had an inheritance from his grandfather, I don't think they were ever capable of cutting him off. I doubt he brought drugs and other stuff by using their money after all.

You don't know that he spent the "vast majority of his teenage years" in rehab and boot camps rather than in his parents' home. Given that he didn't bother to finish high school and ended up later on getting a GED, it seems he had a lot of time on his hands. Unless you're a knowledgable registered insider your guess is no more valid than anyone else's yet you state that as a fact.

And contrary to your last sentence, I wholeheartedly believe that he did indeed use " their money" to buy his "drugs and stuff". Just like he used their money to live in their guest house while his siblings could have entertained their own friends there, for instance. This guy (1/4 century plus 7 yrs old) went straight from sponging on his parents for his living quarters, across the patio, to slitting their throats & stabbing them multiple times. Come to think of it he's Kohberger redux, isn't he.

 

[JDG]

Huh? He looks like a completely normal kid. I'm curious how did you come to the conclusion he looks mentally ill in his childhood pictures.

No, people aren't hardwired at birth, that's your opinion.

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Where did I say he ‘looked’ mentally ill in his childhood pictures?

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[femto]

You don't know that he spent the "vast majority of his teenage years" in rehab and boot camps rather than in his parents' home. Given that he didn't bother to finish high school and ended up later on getting a GED, it seems he had a lot of time on his hands. Unless you're a knowledgable registered insider your guess is no more valid than anyone else's yet you state that as a fact.

These rehabs stints are months on end. He by his own admission spent most of his time from 14 years old to 19-20 years old in rehabs. I think he said he went through 18 rehabs in that timeframe in different states (Maine, Texas, Utah were some of the mentioned). How much time do you think he had staying at home? Especially given that he was only ever allowed to go home on the condition he takes another stint. These are his own words, I'm not making anything up. Whether you choose to believe him or not is your choice.

And contrary to your last sentence, I wholeheartedly believe that he did indeed use " their money" to buy his "drugs and stuff". Just like he used their money to live in their guest house while his siblings could have entertained their own friends there, for instance. This guy (1/4 century plus 7 yrs old) went straight from sponging on his parents for his living quarters, across the patio, to slitting their throats & stabbing them multiple times. Come to think of it he's Kohberger redux, isn't he.

Kohberger didn't kill his parents. On the contrary, he's pretty close to his parents, especially his mom.

Where did I say he ‘looked’ mentally ill in his childhood pictures?

People are hardwired at birth, ask any medical people esp neurologists.

You’re making this up as you go along.

I read that wrong but it was what you were suggesting nevertheless. What do you mean that he looks that 'all is not well with him'? He looks like a smiley, happy to go kid, a very far cry from his 'Being Charlie' apperance.

 

[NuttMegg]

You don't know how long each "stint" was. Your statement of fact that he could only come home if he promised them to "take another stint". Makes no sense. You can take the "admission" of a guy you describe as spending more time in rehab than at home, and what drugs he took, I don't.

On the other hand I doubt he remembers much of those years.

Yes, this murderer shares with Kohberger the concept of overkill, although there is a technical word for it.

Anyway, I'm outta this back and forth, no way do I feel sympathy for this guy.

 

[10ofRods]

Schizophrenia is genetic.

It does not express itself 100% of the time. There's more than one such gene and having more than one of the genes is associated with more severe episodes.

So yes, people are either born with the predisposition or they are not.

IMO.

 

[Bekind89]

You don't know how long each "stint" was. Your statement of fact that he could only come home if he promised them to "take another stint". Makes no sense. You can take the "admission" of a guy you describe as spending more time in rehab than at home, and what drugs he took, I don't.

On the other hand I doubt he remembers much of those years.

Yes, this murderer shares with Kohberger the concept of overkill, although there is a technical word for it.

Anyway, I'm outta this back and forth, no way do I feel sympathy for this guy.

I also have not one drop of sympathy for spoiled, lazy, abusive, entitled killer.
Not one drop.

 

[Sadi]

I also have not one drop of sympathy for spoiled, lazy, abusive, entitled killer.
Not one drop.

Neither do I.