{"id":455532,"date":"2025-12-18T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455532\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:44:12","slug":"rob-and-michele-reiner-slayings-a-clearer-narrative-emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455532\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob and Michele Reiner slayings: A clearer narrative emerging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Five days after <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/live\/live-updates-rob-reiners-son-arrested-in-fatal-stabbings-of-the-hollywood-legend-and-his-wife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead<\/a> in their Brentwood home, a basic timeline is emerging about the killings and the arrest, hours later, of their son Nick.<\/p>\n<p>Reiner, 32, was charged with two counts of murder on Tuesday. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-12-17\/nick-reiner-murder-charges-court-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He appeared in court Wednesday,<\/a> when a judge postponed his arraignment until January. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities have revealed few details about the killings and why they focused on Nick Reiner as a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\">\n<li>\n<p><b>Time of the slayings: <\/b>Prosecutors allege Nick Reiner fatally stabbed his 78-year-old father and 70-year-old mother sometime in the early-morning hours of Sunday. No precise time has been released. The killings occurred several hours after Rob and Nick got into some kind of argument at a Hollywood Christmas party, several family friends told The Times. The details of the argument are unclear \u2014 and some friends said too much emphasis had been placed on the incident. The bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner were found in the master bedroom of their home around 3:40 p.m. Sunday, authorities have said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Discovery: <\/b>A massage therapist arrived at the couple\u2019s home Sunday afternoon for a weekly appointment with the couple. When no one responded to her at the gate of the Brentwood home, the therapist called the Reiners\u2019 daughter, 27-year-old Romy, who lives nearby. She discovered the gruesome scene and had a friend call 911, according to a source who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. Romy and her brother Jake<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-12-17\/rob-reiner-death-children-speak-of-horrific-devastating-loss-of-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> issued a statement Wednesday<\/a> saying the \u201chorrific and devastating loss of our parents &#8230; is something that no one should ever experience. They weren\u2019t just our parents; they were our best friends.\u201d They asked \u201cfor speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Cause of death:<\/b> The Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office confirmed the Reiners\u2019 deaths were the result of homicide, listing the cause as \u201cmultiple sharp force injuries\u201d in its public database on Wednesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What we don\u2019t know<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\">\n<li><b>Why Nick Reiner?<\/b> Authorities have not said what made them focus on him as a suspect. Reiner, who lived in his parents\u2019 guesthouse, checked into the Pierside Santa Monica hotel on Sunday after the killings, according to a law enforcement source who spoke about the case on the condition of anonymity. He was arrested Sunday night near USC. It\u2019s unclear how police tracked him to the hotel or to the South Los Angeles location where he was arrested.<\/li>\n<li><b>Motive<\/b>: Authorities have not theorized about a motive, but that is not unusual this early in a case. Nick Reiner <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-12-16\/why-nick-reiner-struggled-drugs-mental-health-before-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had struggled with drug addiction<\/a> but was also described as being close to his family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\">\n<li>Nick Reiner will continue to be held in Los Angeles County jail without bail.<\/li>\n<li>He is expected to be arraigned on Jan. 7. His attorney, Alan Jackson, said Wednesday: \u201cThere are very, very complex, serious issues associated with this case.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five days after Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Brentwood home, a basic timeline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":455533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[13257,208716,1582,276,29495,208718,4446,161039,21183,2961,224,5337,146880,208717,6976,206600,207451,46370,1404,6620],"class_list":{"0":"post-455532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-authority","9":"tag-brentwood-home","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-cause","13":"tag-court-wednesday","14":"tag-death","15":"tag-few-detail","16":"tag-killing","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-massage-therapist","21":"tag-michele-reiner-slaying","22":"tag-parent","23":"tag-reiner","24":"tag-reiners","25":"tag-rob","26":"tag-sunday","27":"tag-time"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115740637005146437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}