{"id":996952,"date":"2026-08-12T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996952\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:05:16","slug":"nick-reiner-indicted-on-murder-charges-in-deaths-of-rob-and-michele-singer-reiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996952\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Reiner indicted on murder charges in deaths of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner<\/a> on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner<\/a> and Michele Singer Reiner<\/a>, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.<\/p>\n

The grand jury, which had been meeting in secret, returned the indictment on July 20, and it was unsealed Wednesday, when 32-year-old Nick Reiner entered a not guilty plea. <\/p>\n

Rob Reiner<\/a>, a director, actor and Hollywood luminary, and his wife<\/a>, a photographer and producer, were stabbed to death in their home in the upscale Brentwood section of Los Angeles on Dec. 14. Nick Reiner was arrested within hours and charged two days later.<\/p>\n

The grand jury indictment is a major step toward trial and allows prosecutors to skip California\u2019s preliminary hearing process, where evidence is publicly aired.<\/p>\n

Lying in wait means a suspect waited for or hid from victims in order to ambush them, and as an allegation it\u2019s meant to show premeditation. A finding that he was lying in wait along with a murder conviction would make Reiner eligible for the death penalty, but prosecutors said they haven\u2019t decided whether to seek it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a profound betrayal by someone who was loved and trusted by the very people he is accused of killing,\u201d Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement. \u201cWe hope that by having a grand jury return an indictment in this case it will bring us one step closer to a trial and achieving justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsealed indictment gives few new details in secrecy-shrouded case<\/p>\n

The unsealed indictment reveals few new details in a case that has been shrouded in secrecy. It does not explain how or why Reiner was lying in wait. It also includes an allegation that he used a knife in the killing, but authorities have said previously that the couple was stabbed.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have said nothing about possible motives, and leaks in the case have been virtually nonexistent on both sides.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County chief medical examiner<\/a> told The Associated Press he would like to make their autopsy reports public, but a court order has prevented him from doing so.<\/p>\n

Indictment released as Nick Reiner seeks trust funds<\/p>\n

The indictment comes as Reiner is seeking unpaid money<\/a> from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defense.<\/p>\n

Reiner said in a court petition that the trustees who oversee the funds have denied them to him without legal justification. The money was to have gone to Nick Reiner even if his parents were alive, legal filings say. The petition says the trust has at least $1.5 million in assets, but trustees would not share the exact amount.<\/p>\n

\u201cNick loved his parents, and he is devastated by their deaths. But the facts about what did and did not happen to them are not at issue,\u201d the petition says.<\/p>\n

He is seeking to hire back high-profile criminal defense attorney Alan Jackson, who initially represented him before Reiner\u2019s siblings would no longer agree to fund his defense and a public defender took over.<\/p>\n

A hearing on the petition is set for next week.<\/p>\n

The LA County Public Defender\u2019s Office, which is representing Reiner, declined to comment on the indictment.<\/p>\n

Grand jury process happens in secret<\/p>\n

California prosecutors can charge a defendant and take the case through a preliminary hearing \u2014 a sort of trial in miniature where evidence is publicly aired and a judge decides whether it should be sent to trial \u2014 as recently happened with singer D4vd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or they can use a grand jury to go through the process in secret. They can also publicly file charges and later seek a secret grand jury indictment, essentially creating a new version of the case, as happened here and in the Los Angeles prosecution of Harvey Weinstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rob Reiner had prolific career as actor and director<\/p>\n

Rob Reiner began as an actor, starring in the TV sitcom, \u201cAll in the Family,\u201d as Michael \u201cMeathead\u201d Stivic, the liberal son-in-law to a much more conservative and bigoted Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O\u2019Connor. Reiner won two Emmy Awards for the role, and last month got a posthumous Emmy nomination<\/a> for his work as a guest star on \u201cThe Bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

He became a prolific director whose work included some of the most memorable and endlessly watchable movies<\/a> of the 1980s and \u201990s. His credits included \u201cThis is Spinal Tap,\u201d \u201cStand By Me,\u201d \u201cA Few Good Men,\u201d and \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u2026\u201d during the production of which he met photographer Michele Singer. They wed soon after and were married for 36 years.<\/p>\n

Nick Reiner was the second of the three children they had together. He and his father co-wrote<\/a> the script for the 2015 film \u201cBeing Charlie,\u201d<\/a> which was partly based on the son\u2019s teenage struggles with addiction and homelessness.<\/p>\n

His older brother Jake Reiner<\/a> wrote in April that the experience of losing his parents and having his brother at the center of it was \u201ca living nightmare\u201d that is \u201ctoo devastating to comprehend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":996953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[148228,3881,206466,276,4219,171,57,7494,4221,4228,212588,12588,362,224,206943,206147,27173,206148,118515,61,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-996952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alan-jackson","tag-ap-top-news","tag-archie-bunker","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-homicide","tag-indictments","tag-jake-reiner","tag-juries","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-los-angeles","tag-michele-reiner","tag-michele-singer-reiner","tag-nathan-hochman","tag-nick-reiner","tag-rob-reiner","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117085046778866620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996952","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=996952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}