Rob & Michele Reiner Murder: Listener Questions on Nick Reiner, Schizophrenia & Enabling
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
True Crime Today
3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Seventeen rehab stints. A movie about his addiction. A guest house so they could keep him close. Rob and Michele Reiner did everything parents are supposed to do — and now they're dead, allegedly at the hands of the son they never stopped trying to save. You've been flooding us with questions, and we're answering the hardest ones. When does love become enabling? Why did Alan Jackson walk away from this case two weeks before arraignment? What really happened at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party the night before? We dig into the schizophrenia diagnosis, the conservatorship that was reportedly in the works, the blood-covered hotel room, and what Jake and Romy Reiner are facing as they bury both parents while their brother awaits trial. Rob once said he had to "act" like a disciplinarian because tough love wasn't his nature. Michele said she regretted believing rehab counselors who called Nick a liar. The system failed this family at every turn — treatment programs, mental health intervention, the courts. And now we're left with questions that don't have satisfying answers. This episode is about sitting with the uncomfortable, working through the impossible, and trying to understand how a family with every advantage still ended up here.
#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #TrueCrime #Schizophrenia #AddictionAndMentalHealth #AlanJackson #BeingCharlie #CelebrityMurder #HiddenKillers
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.1 | Lots of cases that we have been covering here, and you guys have a lot of questions, |
| 0:14.4 | and we have a lot of answers because we're radio shack. |
| 0:18.4 | No, we have, you know, the same sort of answers, |
| 0:21.2 | you know, that we've been talking about. We have insight. We have, you know, opinions just like |
| 0:27.3 | you guys. We're going to discuss. We're going to discuss a lot of the cases that we've been covering |
| 0:30.5 | here over the last several weeks that we're continuing to cover. We're going to do three |
| 0:34.9 | different ones today, the Reiner Murders, the |
| 0:37.6 | Teppy case, and also the new civil suit that the families are bringing against WSU in regards to |
| 0:45.7 | the Brian Coburger situation. And you are welcome to weigh in in the comments section. As we go |
| 0:50.8 | through this today with your questions, we're going to really focus on getting to them, discussing them, and going through it. Today we're going to start out with the Reiner case. We're going to be doing something a little different here. Stacey, Todd, and me, we're going to be answering those questions. So throw them out there. Look, none of us are lawyers, none of us are psychiatrists or police or anything |
| 1:11.7 | like that. So we're going to do our best to, it's kind of give you our honest take on, on where we |
| 1:17.5 | individually think, you know, various aspects of these cases are going. It's a tragic case, |
| 1:25.0 | the Reiner case. It's hitting on addiction, mental illness, family dynamics, wealth, enabling, the limits of love, all of it. |
| 1:31.7 | So let's get to some of those questions that you guys have been posting out there on our videos. |
| 1:38.9 | And as we go through this today live, please do post yours as well. So let's start out here rob and michel spent years |
| 1:47.8 | at a fortune trying to save nick reiner 17 rehab stints some say maybe even more than that that's what we |
| 1:57.0 | know of that's what's on the record then's the movie, keeping him in the guest house. |
| 2:03.0 | The question here is, at what point does helping become enabling? |
| 2:08.4 | Because it sounds like they never cut him off and now they're dead. |
| 2:11.3 | I'm not saying it's their fault, but I wonder if parents in that situation can ever win. |
| 2:15.9 | That is the question that our first one here |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from True Crime Today, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of True Crime Today and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.