This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. Here's what makes this case cut so deep.

Rob Reiner didn't hide from his son's problems. He made a movie about them. In 2015, he directed Being Charlie, a film Nick co-wrote about a young man battling addiction and a complicated relationship with his father.

Rob talked openly about the guilt he carried, said he regretted listening to the therapists and

counselors instead of his own son. These weren't parents who abandoned their kid or looked the other

way. By every account they were trying, still trying right up until the end and that raises a darker

set of questions about what happens inside a family when love turns into fear when helping become

surviving and when the person you're trying to save becomes a person you need protection from robin

drake retired FBI special agent,

Chief of the Counterintelligence.

Behavioral analysis program is here with us

to help break this part of the conversation down.

What do you make about this part?

Because when I heard this, I kind of,

I gringed a little bit. And in no way, am I faulting Rob or his wife for

going down the path that they thought was going to be best for their son. But the statement

goes on and it talks about the professionals saying you know he's lying to you

he is taking advantage he is deceiving you and they're saying well we should have listened to him more

probably not yeah you know i was looking at a lot of different angles of this.

There's so much parental guilt going on in situations like this.

Sure.

That there's Monday morning quarterbacking left and right on this stuff.

Yeah.

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