The Reiner Murders | The Trial Of Nick Reiner

Jake Reiner said he'd trade every Dodger game and every Broadway show for one more hour with his parents. That's the grief Jake, Romy, and Tracy are living inside — and now, according to tabloid reports, the brother accused of taking everything from them may be planning to make it worse. This look back sits with two hard threads. The first is the wait. Months after Rob and Michele were found in th...

Jake and Romy Reiner lost both parents in a single day — and the person accused of taking them was their own brother. This look back sits with the moment they finally stepped away, and the long, exhausting road that led there. For years, the family absorbed everything: repeated treatment programs, a conservatorship, crisis after crisis. Then their parents were gone, and the two surviving siblings...

 "If you really loved me, you wouldn't give up on me." For seventeen years, that was the gravity the Reiner family lived inside. This look back sits with the hardest, most human part of their story: two parents who never stopped trying, and what it cost them to stay. They did everything. Repeated treatment programs. Facilities reportedly costing tens of thousands a month. A place for their son to...

For the first time in his life, Nick Reiner may be facing the justice system without the safety net that surrounded him for thirty-two years. His high-profile attorney, Alan Jackson — the lawyer who won an acquittal for Karen Read — walked into court, said his team had no choice but to withdraw, and left. Nick was handed a public defender he'd met seconds earlier. This look back sits with what tha...

The night before they died, Rob and Michele Reiner did something quietly heartbreaking: they brought their grown son to a Christmas party and asked the host if it was alright, because they felt they had to keep an eye on him. The next day, they were gone — found in a home still decorated for the holidays by their own daughter. This look back at the Reiner case sits with the part that's hardest to...

Romy Reiner went to check on her parents because they weren't answering the door. She found her father. She called 911. And then she learned the suspect was her own brother. This look back at the Reiner case is about the three people the headlines keep skipping past. Jake, Romy, and Tracy woke up with parents and went to bed orphans — and inherited something almost no family ever has to hold: they...

Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home. Within hours, their 32-year-old son Nick was in custody. He has pleaded not guilty. The case has split listeners between two explanations that both sound right and both fall apart under pressure. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through the audience’s questions about Nick Reiner. The schizophrenia diagnosis and the medic...

Rob and Michele Reiner created a trust for their son when he was born. They funded it. They structured it so half would come to Nick on his thirtieth birthday. The trust reportedly calls the distribution “mandatory and unconditional.” Nick turned thirty on September 14, 2023. The money never came. Twenty-seven months later, his parents were dead. Nick’s lawyers filed a 136-page probate petition de...

Nick Reiner birthday dinner trust fund — September 14th, 2024. A photograph of the entire Reiner family together at a Las Vegas steakhouse for Nick’s 31st birthday. Everyone smiling. One year and one day after a trust distribution reportedly worth more than $750,000 was due to Nick and never paid. Fifteen months before Rob and Michele were found dead. That photograph sits at the center of this epi...

Rob and Michele Reiner created a trust for their son when he was a baby. They funded it. They structured it so half would come to Nick on his thirtieth birthday, with the rest due at thirty-five. The trust reportedly calls the age-thirty distribution “mandatory and unconditional.” Nick turned thirty on September 14th, 2023. The money never came. Twenty-seven months later, his parents were dead. An...

Rob and Michele Reiner set up a trust for their son Nick when he was born. They chose terms that were supposed to protect him for life — half the money at thirty, the rest at thirty-five, with language their own attorneys described as leaving no room for interpretation. Now Nick sits in a Los Angeles jail, charged with both their deaths, and his lawyers have filed a 136-page petition demanding eve...

Nick Reiner $1.5 million petition — one trust clause would have made this filing legally impossible. The Reiner trust reportedly didn't have it. Neither do most family trusts in America. According to the probate petition, Nick Reiner's individual trust required half the funds to be distributed when he turned thirty. No conditions. No discretion. No mechanism for the trustee to withhold based on be...

The newest name in the Rob Reiner murder case isn’t a detective, a prosecutor, or a defense attorney. It’s Jodi Pais Montgomery — the professional fiduciary best known as Britney Spears’ former conservator — and she is taking control of Nick Reiner’s money in the middle of the most contentious filing this case has produced. This deep-dive unpacks the trustee shake-up buried inside the probate peti...

Jake and Romy Reiner buried their parents. Then they hired a defense attorney for the brother accused of killing them. And then they stopped. That decision — and what came after it — is the center of the most revealing chapter in this case yet. After Alan Jackson withdrew from Nick Reiner’s defense, sources say the family was “disgusted” and described Nick’s behavior behind bars as “erratic” and “...

For everyone following the Reiner case who has asked the question out loud — how is this even possible? — this episode is the answer. Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son Nick when he was a baby. It was an act of love, made decades before anyone could imagine how it would be invoked. Now Nick, who has pleaded not guilty to killing them, is asking a court to release more than $1.5 mil...

Before anyone asks what happens to Rob and Michele Reiner's money, there's a harder question hiding inside this Nick Reiner case update: why didn't he ever get it while they were alive? The trust they created for Nick as a baby promised — in writing his own petition calls "mandatory and unconditional" — that half of more than $1.5 million was his at thirty. He turned thirty more than two years bef...

Jake Reiner said he'd trade every Dodger game and every Broadway show for one more hour with his parents. He wrote it in a Substack essay that reads like a son saying goodbye in the only way left available to him — publicly, permanently, with nothing held back about who Rob and Michele were and what they meant. From inside Twin Towers, his brother Nick is reportedly doing the opposite. According t...

They call him "Satan incarnate." They've cut all contact. They've severed financial support. And the Reiner siblings — Jake, Romy, and Tracy — are telling prosecutors not to seek the death penalty against their brother Nick for the alleged stabbing murders of their parents Rob and Michele. Not because they've forgiven him. Because their father was opposed to capital punishment his entire life, and...

Rob Reiner spent decades in the public eye standing for something. He was vocal about justice, about human rights, about the belief that the state should not execute its citizens. He was unapologetic about those positions. And now, months after his alleged murder, those values are being tested in the most personal way imaginable — by his own children, in a case involving his own accused killer. So...

Rob and Michele Reiner spent years trying to save their son. Rehab. Financial support. Patience. Second chances. They co-wrote a film together about a father and son working through addiction. They showed up at every stage of his struggle. They kept the door open when most families would have locked it. And according to prosecutors, on the night of December 14, 2025, they were allegedly stabbed to...

Rob and Michele Reiner are gone. Their daughter found them. Their son was arrested hours later. And over four months after the most violent night imaginable, the system hasn't even finished documenting what was done to them. The autopsy reports are still pending.  The preliminary hearing got pushed to September. Nick Reiner sat in a Los Angeles courtroom in a yellow jail smock, consulted with his...

They grew up in the same Brentwood home. They shared the same parents — Rob and Michele Reiner. They stood inside the same Hollywood world, shaped by the same privileges and pressures. And now, four months after their parents were found stabbed to death, Jake and Nick Reiner are reportedly processing that tragedy in ways that couldn’t be more opposite. Jake recently broke his silence in a Substack...

Jake Reiner wrote that he’d give up everything just to talk to his parents one more time. Romy found them. And now, the brother who allegedly took Rob and Michele Reiner from this family is reportedly plotting something from behind bars that could wound Jake and Romy all over again — a revenge tell-all reportedly designed to expose secrets and settle scores with the people who spent their lives tr...

Nick Reiner entered a Los Angeles courtroom with a shaved head, brown jumpsuit, and shackles. He sat behind glass and let his public defender speak two words: not guilty. To two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances for allegedly stabbing Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner to death in their Brentwood bedroom. This Hidden Killers Week In Review breaks down what that plea actual...

In the latest development in the Nick Reiner murder case, siblings Jake Reiner and Romy Reiner have reportedly ended all financial support for Nick's defense — and sources say neither will attend his trial. Nick Reiner, 32, pleaded not guilty on February 23rd, 2026 to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the stabbing deaths of his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Re...