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

[BUF]

Has it been confirmed if cameras/tv coverage will be allowed in court tomorrow?

Hadn’t heard anything, maybe someone else has.
First time he was in court video was released very shortly after.

 

[Cool Cats]

yes, but that means it is dependent upon the person who needs hospitalization being honest and stating they want to self harm or harm others and IME that doesn't happen. People in active psychosis often lack the requisite insight and the capacity to accurately describe their symptoms to LE or medical professionals.

Can't kill people while your at least being evaluated - it could take all night - but it is just a moot point now. No one took him in for an evaluation and in light of what he did I wish someone had but Rob and Michele seem to have felt safe enough to take him to their house/guest house and go to their bedroom that night. Unfortunately, heated arguments were common and this one just happened to have happened in front of party guests.

2 Cents

 

[Sadi]

Hadn’t heard anything, maybe someone else has.
First time he was in court video was released very shortly after.

The judge is the one who makes the decision, correct? Can the family, both attorneys make a request to allow them or not?

 

[Seattle1]

Very interesting stats presented here about long term use of cannabis, which seem applicable to NR.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008588349259297278

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008661491961262194

 

[SaraSmile]

I have a heck of a lot of experience dealing with this situation with a loved one. I live right next to Chicago, so an area with lots of big hospital and mental health inpatient floors, etc.

There are SO few inpatient beds available and so many people who need them.

With my son, the ONLY time he got a bed directly was when he started with a new psychiatrist and that psych worked and taught at a major hospital (in addition to his private practice), so he had direct admit privileges and had all the connections/right people to call to make it happen. And we were lucky that the nurses there knew they had a patient discharging that day and were ordered by this doctor to hold the bed for our son (and that they actually did).

Every other time, it was sitting in the ER for days, once or twice getting admitted somewhere else, and several times just being let go.

If at any point while you are sitting in a hospital ER waiting for a bed you change your mind and are able to act normal enough to convince them that you are no longer in immediate danger, you will often be discharged with strong referrals to their outpatient psych PHP programs/clinics (but which you are NOT required to follow through on and it's rare that you get a follow up call). And when you've been sitting there for 12+ hours, and the hospital is busy and full, there's no available bed in 30 mile radius, and you have been given something to help you calm down in the meantime, that's not hard to achieve.

I wish it was "all you have to do." But the reality is, that it is not in most places/many circumstances because of the huge strain on mental health care services and the amount of ppl who need them. Factor in insurance companies and their restrictions, and you have a whole other tangle of limitations.

There aren't enough beds for the people who want/and or need them.

And that's just the situation for adults....don't even get me started on services for teenagers.

Thank you for sharing. Very interesting.
I’m so glad your son got the help he needed. I hope he is on the road to recovery.

 

[Niner]

Wednesday, January 7th:
*Arraignment/Plea Hearing (@ 8:30am PT) - CA – Rob [Robert Norman] Reiner (78) & Michele Singer Reiner (68) found dead 2025 [multiple stab wounds & slit throats] in their L.A. home in the master bedroom on Sunday, Dec. 14,. *Nick Reiner (32) arrested (12/14/25) & charged (12/16/25) with 2 counts of murder with special circumstances (deadly weapon & multiple victims). Bond set at $4M. Bond reset (12/16/25) to NO bond. Being held in Twin Towers Correctional Facility. L.A. County
Timeline: “We don’t have that kind of specificity yet,” McDonnell said of the timeline of the couple’s deaths. “We’re waiting on the coroner to be able to try and determine as best they can at this point.”
[map Reiner's house to the Pierside & on to USC on post #935, page 47]
The Sinclair Gas station is about two miles from the hotel. And the hotel is five minutes from the metro train stop, which goes directly to the Exposition Blvd. stop where Nick was apprehended by cops.
Prosecutors have alleged N Reiner stabbed his parents in "approximately the early morning hours" on Sunday, according to a news release. But a specific time has not been disclosed.
12/13/25 Saturday night: One source told the Daily Mail that Rob & Michele ate at the Amici restaurant Friday [could be Saturday], the night before they attended a holiday party at Conan O'Brien's house with their son.
12/13/25 Saturday, early evening: Rob & Michele & Nick attend Conan O'Brien's holiday party. No time on when they left.
12/13/25 Saturday: Just before midnight – Security cameras show Nick leaving Reiner’s house.
12/13/25 Saturday @ 12:16am: Nick [carrying black backpack] walking across a Sinclair gas station forecourt. John Fawcett, the owner of the nearby Sinclair gas station, has described seeing Nick walking across the forecourt late on Saturday night -CCTV footage from late Saturday night Fawcett described how Nick walked westbound along San Vicente Avenue before cutting through his station. He then crossed the street before pausing outside a consignment store called The RealReal & then heading up the sidewalk.
12/14/25 Sunday @ 4am: Reportedly, NR checked into room 207 at The Pierside Hotel in Santa Monica around 4am on Sunday, 12/14/25.
12/14/25 Sunday @ 2pm: Masseuse arrives-no one answers door.
12/14/25 Sunday @ 3pm: Romy finds her parents dead.
12/14/25 Sunday @ 3:30pm: Emergency services called to home.
12/14/25 Sunday @ 3:40pm: The couple was found dead around 3:40pm on Sunday, 12/14/25.
12/14/25 Sunday @ 8:20pm: Nick buys a drink [Gatorade] at Arco gas station. Early Sunday morning captured on CCTV Reiner has a red backpack slung over his shoulder & is wearing a black & green jacket with white stripes & a dark baseball cap, calmly strolled by the service station just half a mile from his parents' home.
12/14/25 Sunday @ 9:15pm: Reiner was taken into custody [at the *Expo/Vermont Metro station in Exposition Park] around 9:15pm, Sunday, 12/14/25.
12/15/25 Monday @ ~1am: An LAPD detective showed up at the Pierside Santa Monica hotel. the detective told the front desk clerk he was looking for a guest named Nick Reiner. The detective told the clerk he was there for a "welfare check." But he also told the clerk he was concerned Reiner "disposed of a weapon & used the room to clean & dispose of evidence in a violent crime." The clerk accompanied the detective to room 207, but it had been cleaned hours before by a hotel housekeeper, who, we're told, found blood in the shower & on the bed sheets.
12/15/25 Monday @ 5:04am: booked on suspicion of 2 counts of murder at 5:04am, Monday, 12/15/25
L.A. Superior Court Judge Deirdre Hill presiding. Prosecutors Asst. Head Deputy DA Habib Balian, Jonathan Chung & Deputy DA Sarah Elizabeth Bailog. Defense attorney Alan Jackson.
Case & court info from 12/14/15 reference post #390 here:
https://websleuths.com/threads/ca-m...nd-wife-michele-la-dec-14-2025.757705/page-20
12/16/25 Updates: Bond has been changed to NO bond. Initial hearing on 12/16/25 @ 8:30am. Also Nick has hired Alan Jackson [of Karen Read fame]. Nick Reiner will not appear in court on accusations he murdered his parents until he is medically cleared. New detail. [see post 448, page 23 for article] Rob Reiner & his wife Michele were found in bed with their throats cut & may have been asleep when they were murdered, a source close to the investigation. Also Nick has hired Alan Jackson [of Karen Read fame]. Nick Reiner will not appear in court on accusations he murdered his parents until he is medically cleared. {People Mag says he is being held in the Men's Central Jail.
12/16/25 Update: Initial hearing changed on jail site to 12/17/25 @ 8:30am. Reiner made a brief appearance in court but did not enter a plea. Waived his right to a speedy arraignment. His arraignment was continued until 1/7/26.
12/21/25 Update: Nick remains on suicide watch & is currently being held in solitary confinement, where he is required to wear a blue suicide-prevention smock at all times. Nick is not permitted to communicate with anyone other than his legal counsel & authorized jail personnel, according to the police source. He is only allowed to leave his cell for court appearances or medical reasons, and must be escorted by a sergeant at all times. He is monitored with a video camera that is attached to his escorting officer.
12/29/25 Update: L.A. Superior Court Judge Deirdre Hill has agreed to bar the release of Rob Reiner & Michele Singer Reiner’s autopsy reports at the request of law enforcement investigating the death. The L.A. County medical examiner’s office said that it received a court order last week initiated by the Los Angeles Police Dept. to place a security hold on the cases. The medical examiner’s office had previously confirmed their deaths were the result of homicide, listing the cause as “multiple sharp force injuries” in its public database. “Due to the court order, the information is no longer available,” the medical examiner’s office wrote. “No other case information or records, including the Medical Examiner report, can be released or posted on the website until further notice.”

 

[Hexe]

A druggy spoiled brat still has positive life experiences and can function within their spoiled realm.

People that are sane yet so nasty nobody likes them do exist too. And unfortunately are not so rare.

I can easily imagine a kid, who learned early that it is enough to throw violent tantrum to get others do what he wants, and loves aggravating others for fun, not making any friends.

I do not think Nick had no normal life because of some overwhelming mental illness. I think it's because his early behavioural issues were not properly addressed, boundaries were not put in place and so he grew into a man with personality disorder. Drugs, obviously, did not help.

If he suffers from any psychosis I am ready to bet it is acquired by vigorous abuse of multiple drugs. But I am also ready to bet he will be deemed legally sane.

 

[BUF]

Will Nick Reiner's arraignment be televised?

It's up to the judge to decide whether Reiner's arraignment will be televised, according to the communications office for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, where Reiner's case was filed. The court told USA TODAY the judge may make a ruling on that at the arraignment itself.

At Reiner's first court appearance Dec. 17, Judge Theresa McGonigle allowed cameras to stream the proceedings, but prohibited media from taking photos or videos of Reiner himself.

Nick Reiner due back in court. Will it be televised? What to expect

Accused murderer Nick Reiner is due back in court for his arraignment, a legal proceeding that is typically short but could be revealing.

www.usatoday.com

Law & Crime and STS does have a YouTube link up to go live at 11:00 EST

 

[JDG]

What is STS?

Do you have a link to the YouTube please? Thanks

 

[BUF]

Do you have a link to the YouTube please? Thanks

 

[Jade]

People that are sane yet so nasty nobody likes them do exist too. And unfortunately are not so rare.

I can easily imagine a kid, who learned early that it is enough to throw violent tantrum to get others do what he wants, and loves aggravating others for fun, not making any friends.

I do not think Nick had no normal life because of some overwhelming mental illness. I think it's because his early behavioural issues were not properly addressed, boundaries were not put in place and so he grew into a man with personality disorder. Drugs, obviously, did not help.

If he suffers from any psychosis I am ready to bet it is acquired by vigorous abuse of multiple drugs. But I am also ready to bet he will be deemed legally sane.

Respectfully NR has more than an unlikable personality.

Do you have a link to back up the accusation that the Reiner's were not good, decent, present parents, had no boundaries, didn't properly address his issues and brought this extreme act on themselves?

The Reiner's second guessing themselves is typical of caregivers with a difficult increasingly declining situation.

I'm curious because it seems there is a gotcha for perceived liberal, Hollywood elite when there are many parricide by all incomes in the pages of WS.

For example the Porco's. No one is presumptive enough there to blame the parents:

NY - Christopher Porco - Another Menandez situation? - sentenced

A debilitating personality disorder such as Schizotypal I'm guessing from reports that NR did not seem to be suffering from psychosis at the party nor did he display that at the motel and store, imo.

With no psychoses I believe that would be sane too but we don't know his diagnoses.

For the Reiner's, seemingly extremely empathic, writing their child off or skimping on self pay services would be out of the question morally, imo.


all imo

 

[tlcya]

OMG the anti trump guy screaming in the street can STFU any time now. NSFW

 

[tlcya]

sound has now been muted thank goodness, I couldn't handle listening to him anymore. So far just cameras outside the court house on the Law and Crime feed.

 

[Hexe]

Do you have a link to back up the accusation that the Reiner's were not good, decent, present parents, had no boundaries, didn't properly address his issues and brought this extreme act on themselves?

That's not what I wrote.
Let me state it loud and clear: whatever parental mistakes Reiners might have done, they are not to blame for their demise. Nick is.

 

[BUF]

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[BUF]

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TMZ had a Breaking Update video saying that Alan Jackson was resigning from the case and Nick Reiner would have a public defender appointed, so he wouldn’t enter a plea today and the family would speak later. After I poster the video link, it now says video is private.

 

[tricia]

TMZ had a Breaking Update video saying that Alan Jackson was resigning from the case and Nick Reiner would have a public defender appointed, so he wouldn’t enter a plea today and the family would speak later. After I poster the video link, it now says video is private.

Whoops Never mind. Thank you Buff

 

[Sundog]

That's not what I wrote.
Let me state it loud and clear: whatever parental mistakes Reiners might have done, they are not to blame for their demise. Nick is.

I don't know what "parental mistakes" the Reiners may have made, other than some here who say they would have done things differently than the Reiners and think that NR would have turned out differently. All that is just a matter of opinion.

 

[Eli9]

TMZ had a Breaking Update video saying that Alan Jackson was resigning from the case and Nick Reiner would have a public defender appointed, so he wouldn’t enter a plea today and the family would speak later. After I poster the video link, it now says video is private.

I hadn't anticipated a public defender.

 

[tricia]

TMZ had a Breaking Update video saying that Alan Jackson was resigning from the case and Nick Reiner would have a public defender appointed, so he wouldn’t enter a plea today and the family would speak later. After I poster the video link, it now says video is private.

THANK YOU, Buff. This explains why the hearing is late getting started. It shows it was supposed to start at 10 am Central on my YouTube.