Robin Dreeke Analyzes Nick Reiner & Mickey Stines: Two Warnings, Two Killings, No One Listened
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Two families saw it coming. Both had direct warnings. Both had the person who would kill them in their lives every single day. Neither survived.
Rob and Michele Reiner knew their son Nick was deteriorating. Sources say his schizophrenia medication was changed weeks before the killings and he went off the rails. They watched him unravel at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party — the staring, the interruptions, the argument that sent them home early. Michele told friends they were at their wits' end. By December 14th, both parents were dead from multiple stab wounds in their Brentwood bedroom.
Judge Kevin Mullins got a direct warning about Sheriff Mickey Stines from a lawyer who worked with both men. Said Stines was losing it. Said he needed a mental health evaluation. Mullins and Stines had worked together for years — Stines was his bailiff before becoming sheriff. They had lunch together the day of the shooting. Hours later, Mullins was dead in his own chambers.
Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke has built his career on understanding exactly this — how trust becomes vulnerability, why people dismiss threats from familiar faces, what makes someone invisible as a danger until they aren't. Today he examines both cases side by side. The behavioral red flags that were visible to everyone. The medication changes that may have destabilized Nick Reiner. The pressure that may have broken Mickey Stines. And the institutional failures that keep letting obvious warning signs go unanswered.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.9 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, TMZ just dropped a significant development of the Nick Reiner case. |
| 0:11.5 | Sources with direct knowledge say Nick now admits to killing his parents, allegedly, according to TMZ source, Robin Michelle Reiner. |
| 0:20.9 | But here's the caveat. |
| 0:23.0 | This is where we get to that insanity defense. |
| 0:26.6 | Genuinely believes his incarceration is part of a conspiracy against him. |
| 0:32.8 | Apparently, he doesn't understand why he's in jail. |
| 0:35.3 | His medications for schizoaffective disorder were reportedly changed about a month before the murders |
| 0:39.8 | and still aren't apparently working properly. |
| 0:42.8 | Robin Drake is here with us to help break a lot of this down and some of these new developments. |
| 0:50.4 | This is such a confusing case, one where, yes, there is a place for some empathy in it, but at the same point, it is insanely difficult to have empathy for a person who has abused others, goodwill, patience, and everything else that comes along with everyone that's dealt with |
| 1:13.6 | Nick Reiner for his existence and put up with all of his addictions and all of his actions |
| 1:19.2 | and all of his everything. Now suddenly to say, okay, he knows he kills his parents, but he |
| 1:25.4 | thinks it's a conspiracy, which, you know, |
| 1:35.2 | does line up to schizophrenic type thinking, but at the same point, it also lines up right in step with manipulative behavior, which he's also very good at, which he's talked about doing |
| 1:40.2 | every single time he comes down from one of his drug binges. |
| 1:46.0 | Robin, you've recruited spies, people whose survival depends on making others believe things that |
| 1:53.3 | aren't true. |
| 1:54.3 | When you look at Nick Reiner's documented history of cycling through 18 rehabs and allegedly |
| 1:59.0 | manipulating every system he touched. |
| 2:01.5 | What kind of profile emerges here? |
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