Nick Reiner’s Alleged Revenge Plot From Behind Bars
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Nick Reiner is being held without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Facility after allegedly stabbing both his parents — director Rob Reiner and photographer-producer Michele Singer Reiner — inside their Brentwood home. He’s pled not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances. His original defense attorney withdrew under circumstances he’s declined to explain. A public defender has taken over. And now, reports say Nick is allegedly planning a revenge tell-all from his cell — one designed to expose family secrets and target the siblings who’ve cut him off completely.
Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief, walks through the behavioral contradictions at the center of this case. Sources describe Nick as delusional and childlike behind bars, yet simultaneously driven by what insiders reportedly call a vendetta. Dreeke explains what that disconnect actually looks like from an analytical standpoint — and whether the tell-all is a sign of agency or manipulation.
We take your listener questions on everything from the medication changes a month before that night to what justice even looks like for a family that reportedly spent a fortune trying to save the person who allegedly destroyed them. This one cuts deep — because the evidence, the grief, and the family’s reported history of intervention all point to the same unbearable question: when does helping become enabling, and when does walking away become survival?
All individuals discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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| 1:02.4 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree. |
| 1:09.6 | Wake up, San Francisco. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Danny Tanner. |
| 1:12.2 | Welcome to the show today. |
| 1:14.7 | Happy new week, everybody. |
| 1:17.0 | Jake Reiner, we're going to be talking about the Reiner situation here. |
| 1:21.3 | First, your thoughts. |
| 1:22.1 | We'd love for you to weigh in out there on the comment section. |
| 1:25.8 | Jake Reiner wrote about waking up every morning |
| 1:28.4 | and having to convince himself it wasn't a dream. |
| 1:31.8 | He put out a new piece this week. |
| 1:34.5 | It's the first time he's spoken publicly on his substack. |
| 1:37.6 | The articles is called Mom and Dad. |
| 1:40.2 | He wrote about being robbed of his parents |
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