Schizophrenia, Addiction, and a $70K Rehab: The Reiner Murders Explained
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 17 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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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:07.2 | On Friday, a judge in Los Angeles signed a sealed medical order in the Nick Reiner murder case. |
| 0:12.2 | Three sources with direct knowledge confirmed to NBC4 that Nick Reiner was being treated for schizophrenia. |
| 0:19.9 | Had been for years in that his medication was changed. |
| 0:23.0 | Weeks before, he allegedly stabbed both of his parents to death. |
| 0:28.0 | And already I can see where this is going. |
| 0:30.2 | Already, the groundwork is being laid. |
| 0:32.3 | The defense will say Nick was sick. |
| 0:34.0 | The defense will say the medication made him unstable. |
| 0:36.4 | The defense will say he wasn't in his |
| 0:38.0 | right mind. And the system failed him. And this was a tragedy nobody could have prevented. |
| 0:44.6 | Here's what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to let that narrative go unchallenged. |
| 0:51.6 | Because Nick Reiner had every resource a human being could possibly |
| 0:54.9 | had. He had parents with money, real money. He had access to the best psychiatric care in the |
| 1:01.6 | country. He was recently in a facility that reportedly charged $70,000 a month, a place |
| 1:07.7 | that specializes in exactly his combination of problems, schizophrenia and |
| 1:12.0 | addiction treated together. He had doctors actively managing his case, adjusting his medications, |
| 1:18.0 | trying to find the combination that would stabilize him allegedly. And according to sources, |
| 1:24.8 | he was still using, still making the choice. |
| 1:27.9 | And it is a choice. |
| 1:29.3 | But to put substances into his body that he knew would destabilize him further, |
| 1:36.2 | yeah, that's choice. |
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