Rob Reiner Son Nick — Family Abandons His Defense
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Nick Reiner murder case reached a new turning point when siblings Jake and Romy Reiner — children of the late Rob and Michele Singer Reiner — officially distanced themselves from Nick's defense following his not guilty plea on February 23rd, 2026.
Nick Reiner, 32, faces two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the December 14th, 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents at their Brentwood, California home. He is held without bail. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office has not ruled out the death penalty. His next hearing is April 29th, 2026.
Sources with direct knowledge told TMZ that Jake and Romy no longer plan to fund a private defense attorney — and that they will not attend the trial. The family had previously hired prominent defense attorney Alan Jackson, who withdrew in January citing circumstances he said were legally and ethically impossible to disclose. Public defender Kimberly Greene is now Nick's sole legal representation. In more than two months of incarceration, she is reportedly the only person who has visited him.
True Crime Today's Tony Brueski examines the legal and personal implications of the family's decision, and places it alongside three high-profile cases where families made the same impossible choice: Peter Lanza after Sandy Hook, the family of Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, and Kerri Rawson — daughter of BTK killer Dennis Rader — who processed her grief in a memoir that reframed what it means to love someone who turns out to be capable of something monstrous.
With the death penalty on the table and a preliminary hearing to be scheduled April 29th, the Reiner case is far from over. But for Jake and Romy, it may already be.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.4 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.7 | How many times do you forgive someone before forgiveness starts to look like something else? |
| 0:12.5 | It's not a rhetorical question. |
| 0:14.9 | It's the question that lives underneath every story I'm about to tell you. |
| 0:21.3 | And if you've ever loved someone who made that question necessary, you already know it does not have a clean answer. |
| 0:31.4 | Let me give you the picture for September 9th to 25, red carpet premiere of Spital Tap 2. The End continues at the Egyptian |
| 0:42.3 | Theater in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, 78, one of the most celebrated directors in American film history, |
| 0:48.0 | standing next to his wife, Michelle, their son Jake, their daughter, Romy, and Nick, all of them |
| 0:52.3 | together, a complete family in public, captured in photographs that are now almost unbearable to look at. |
| 0:59.7 | It's 96 days later, Rob and Michelle Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home. |
| 1:05.0 | Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested that same night, and Jake and Romy, the two people who had spent their entire lives as siblings |
| 1:12.7 | to someone whose chaos they had absorbed for decades, |
| 1:16.4 | delivered their verdict not in a courtroom, |
| 1:18.3 | but through a source speaking to TMZ in a single sentence. |
| 1:22.6 | Nick's defense is Nick's defense. |
| 1:25.2 | They're not involved. |
| 1:28.4 | Those words, not involved. |
| 1:32.9 | And that sentence didn't come from nowhere. |
| 1:37.2 | It came from a lifetime of something else entirely. |
| 1:42.4 | Nick Reiner's first rehab stint was at 14 years old by 2016. He had been through |
| 1:47.7 | 18 treatments days. 18. He was placed into a year-long mental health conservatorship in 2020. Police |
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