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FBI Expert Robin Dreeke Breaks Down Two Cases of Family Destruction — Nick Reiner and Pastor JP Miller

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, News Commentary, True Crime

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke, who ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, joins us to analyze two cases that expose how predatory and crisis behavior escalates inside families while the people closest to it feel powerless to intervene.

First, the Nick Reiner case. The son of legendary director Rob Reiner now faces two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of both his parents at their Brentwood home. Dreeke examines the disturbing timeline that emerged in the hours before the killings: erratic behavior at Conan O'Brien's holiday party, repetitive questioning of celebrities like Bill Hader and Jane Fonda, an explosive public argument between father and son, and Nick's reported four a.m. check-in to a Santa Monica hotel where staff later discovered blood-soaked sheets and a shower full of blood. We discuss what these behavioral patterns reveal about escalation and crisis states, and what this tragedy exposes about the limits of intervention even when families see catastrophe coming.

Then we turn to the JP Miller indictment. A federal grand jury just charged the Myrtle Beach pastor with cyberstalking and making false statements to investigators in connection with his wife Mica Miller, who died in April 2024. According to the indictment, Miller posted intimate photos of her online without consent, placed tracking devices on her vehicle, contacted her over fifty times in a single day, and lied to federal investigators about sabotaging her car. Sworn affidavits describe years of coercive control, isolation, and surveillance. Two civil lawsuits now accuse Miller of sexually assaulting minors in the late 1990s. And another death looms over the case: Chris Skinner, a quadriplegic veteran who drowned in 2021 after allegedly confronting Miller about an affair.

Dreeke breaks down the manipulation tactics, the warning signs, and what it takes to stop predators who hide behind family and faith.


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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

0:09.8

We now are several days out from the discovery of Rava Michelle Reiner's bodies in their Brentwood home.

0:16.6

Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son, appeared in court on Wednesday wearing a suicide prevention smock.

0:24.0

No shirt, sat quietly behind the glass and waved his right to his speedy arraignment.

0:28.5

His attorney, Alan Jackson, yes, that one, called the case very, very complex and asked the public not to jump to conclusions.

0:37.0

Meanwhile, a disturbing timeline continues to emerge.

0:40.5

The argument at Conan O'Brien's party on Saturday night,

0:43.2

the antisocial behavior that unsettled guests,

0:46.7

the 4-Am hotel check-in to the piercide in Santa Monica,

0:50.6

and the alleged blood-soaked room. Staff found hours later.

0:56.0

And now we're learning new information as we are doing this.

1:00.6

TMZ reporting that Nick had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had been going

1:05.1

through a medication adjustment.

1:07.7

And that was not working out so well, according to TMZ and according to doctors.

1:15.5

But somehow the solution was, well, let's get 24-hour care with the 77-year-old parents and hope for the best.

1:25.5

Yeah, so many questions here.

1:32.0

Joining me to discuss Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent, former chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program.

1:34.4

That right there, let's start with that.

1:36.2

The new information that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, makes sense.

1:41.3

Going through medication changes, which happened.

1:45.5

That's, you know, that's part of the journey.

1:48.4

Oftentimes you can be on medications for so long, and then you kind of got to adjust

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