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Nick Reiner Held Without Bail in Parents’ Stabbing Deaths as Mental-Health Questions Mount

He remains jailed under suicide watch pending a January 7 court hearing.

Overview

  • Los Angeles officials say Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, died of multiple stab wounds, and their daughter Romy discovered the bodies at the Brentwood home.
  • Prosecutors have charged Nick Reiner, 32, with two counts of first-degree murder with a multiple-victim special circumstance, leaving him facing life without parole or the death penalty.
  • He is housed in isolation at the Twin Towers jail under continuous suicide watch, and the judge overseeing the case has signed a sealed medical order related to his care.
  • Multiple outlets, including NBC and TMZ, report he had a schizophrenia diagnosis and that his psychiatric medication was changed weeks before the killings, with sources describing increasingly erratic behavior and noting a long history of substance abuse and rehab stays.
  • Police arrested him near Exposition Park after surveillance sightings, and media report blood evidence in a Santa Monica hotel room; accounts of a heated argument at a party hosted by Conan O’Brien remain unverified.