Schizophrenia, Addiction, and a $70K Rehab: The Reiner Murders Explained
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
For years, Rob Reiner publicly criticized the treatment industry. He said the experts were wrong. He said he should have listened to Nick instead of the people with diplomas on the wall. But here's the hard truth: the professionals were right. Nick was the one lying. Nick was the one refusing to comply. Nick was the one whose choices made treatment impossible — not because the system failed, but because he wouldn't let it work.
Sources say his medication was changed weeks before the killings. But medication only works if you take it. Sobriety only works if you stay sober. Nick didn't. According to sources, his drug use was worsening his schizophrenia. He was "out of his head" — not because doctors failed him, but because he kept making the choices that put him there.
Michele Reiner told friends, "We've tried everything." She had. They both had. But you can't save someone who won't stop sabotaging their own recovery. And you can't protect yourself from someone who's been manipulating you for seventeen years.
Nick Reiner is facing two counts of first-degree murder. Sources say an insanity defense is coming. But insanity doesn't erase the years of choices that led to that bedroom in Brentwood.
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| 0:34.5 | Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
| 0:39.0 | The night will be wild and untamed. |
| 0:41.1 | Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
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| 0:47.1 | slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
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| 1:00.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
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| 1:06.9 | On Friday, a judge in Los Angeles signed a sealed medical order in the Nick Reiner murder case. |
| 1:11.9 | Three sources with direct knowledge confirmed to NBC4 that Nick Reiner was being treated for schizophrenia. |
| 1:19.6 | Had been for years in that his medication was changed. |
| 1:22.8 | Weeks before, he allegedly stabbed both of his parents to death. |
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