Nick Reiner Pleads Not Guilty to Parents Murders, After High Profile Lawyer Walks Away
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Nick Reiner, 32 pleads not guilty to the December 2025 murders of his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. His preliminary hearing has been postponed to Sept. 15, 2026, as the defense is still waiting for evidence. There is roughly 2 terabytes of discovery and autopsy results. Reiner is now represented by a public defender after his previous high-profile attorney Alan Jackson withdrew.
Reports suggest Reiner is in a high-observation mental health unit in jail. Reiner has faced severe, long-term mental health challenges, including diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, and was under a mental health conservatorship between 2020 and 2021.
The murderders happened after Michele and Rob Reiner leave Conan’s party without their son after his off-putting behavior, like wearing a hoodie to a formal event and interrupting Bill Hader’s private conversation, leads to an embarrassing public row.
Reiner, however, doesn’t make his own way to Brentwood. Instead, he pops up in Santa Monica at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, checking into The Pierside hotel. Desk staff don’t notice anything off about Reiner’s appearance, but the next morning, housekeepers find sheets covering the windows, and blood all over Reiner’s bedding and shower.
The Reiners’ troubles with their middle child have been bubbling to a head for months. Every photo of the family from the September premiere of Rob’s latest film, "Spinal Tap: The End Continues," picture the 32-year-old sporting a deep scowl.
By November, Nick Reiner moves back into his parents’ guest house, which he’s trashed on multiple occasions, leading up to a blowout fight the day after Thanksgiving that left Michele “at her wits’ end.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.0 | Nick Reiner |
| 0:13.6 | pleads not guilty in the murders of his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner. |
| 0:20.8 | What does it mean? |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:24.6 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:26.0 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:29.5 | An eerie-looking Nick Reiner in court pleading not guilty to the brutal murder of his parents, Rob and Michelle. |
| 0:42.0 | The disgraced Hollywood son Nick Reiner, looking visibly disturbed when he pled not guilty |
| 0:47.9 | to charge a stemming from the murders of his film director, Dad, and Rob Reiner's wife, Michelle Singer-Riner. |
| 0:56.1 | In court, Reiner sat in an odd silence behind a glass wall while his lawyer entered the not-guilty plea on his behalf. |
| 1:06.8 | What do we know about the morning? |
| 1:10.1 | His parents, Rob Reiner, and Michelle Singer-Riner, were found dead. Their throats slashed in their own L.A. home. |
| 1:20.6 | Breaking details in the shocking Brentwood double homicide involving Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer-Riner. |
| 1:29.0 | According to TMZ, their son, Nick Reiner, who's now charged with their murders, |
| 1:34.7 | had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in the weeks leading up to the killings. |
| 1:39.6 | His behavior reportedly became erratic and dangerous after a change in medication. |
| 1:45.1 | Two sources with direct knowledge say Nick was under psychiatric care and had recently |
| 1:50.8 | been treated at a Los Angeles high-end rehab facility specializing in mental illness and substance |
| 1:56.6 | abuse. |
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