The Reiner Murders: 17 Rehab Programs, Years of Police Calls, and a Father Who Said He Was "Petrified"
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This is the fifth alleged patricide case in Southern California in recent weeks. Five sons accused of killing their fathers — or both parents — in a matter of months. The Reiners. The Cordes family. Jubilant Sykes' son. Juan Gonzalez in Perris. Joshua Bonilla in Lake Balboa.
Something is happening. And the Reiner case exposes exactly why the system keeps failing.
Nick Reiner didn't snap out of nowhere. Police had been to his parents' Brentwood home multiple times over the years. A neighbor described prior violent behavior. He'd cycled through seventeen rehab programs by age 22 — and admitted on podcasts to gaming every one of them. The night before the killings, his own father reportedly told friends he was "petrified" of him.
Rob and Michele Reiner saw it coming. So did the people around them. But California's mental health laws made intervention nearly impossible. You can't commit an adult unless they're an imminent threat. A 72-hour hold ends with the patient walking out the door. Families are left to manage severe mental illness in their own homes — untrained, unsupported, and terrified.
Defense attorney Bob Motta joins True Crime Today to examine the pattern before the crime. What does law enforcement typically see in the years leading up to a family tragedy? When police respond to a home repeatedly, what options do they actually have? And for the millions of families living this nightmare right now — what can be done before it's too late?
The warning signs were everywhere. The system still couldn't stop it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.2 | The murder trial of Sarah Grace Patrick scheduled to begin now. |
| 0:13.8 | Well, it's not happening. |
| 0:15.3 | The case has now been pushed to August 3rd, a seven-month delay after prosecutors told Judge Dustin Hightower, they would need |
| 0:23.0 | time to review a defense neuropsychologist evaluation and potentially hire their own expert to rebut it. |
| 0:30.3 | Sarah Grace Patrick is 17 years old. She's charged as an adult with two counts of murder. |
| 0:37.1 | And the shooting deaths of her mother, |
| 0:38.9 | Christine Brock and stepfather James Brock, the couple was found shot in their bed in Carroll County, |
| 0:44.2 | Georgia in February 20th of 2025. Their young daughter discovered the bodies. She was five. |
| 0:50.7 | Sarah, the older sister, is now being charged with the murders, called 911. |
| 0:56.1 | Five months later, she was arrested. |
| 1:02.2 | After the sheriff's office announced they had mountains of evidence, as they like to say, against her. |
| 1:04.2 | But no murder weapon has been produced. |
| 1:06.2 | No forensic evidence has been publicly disclosed. |
| 1:07.8 | No firearm was found at the scene. And the defense's earlier motion for continuance, citing incomplete discovery was denied. |
| 1:13.2 | Yet, when the state needed more time, they got seven months. |
| 1:16.6 | Joining me now to break it all down and what this delay means and what questions remain |
| 1:20.3 | unanswered is defense attorney Bob Mata. |
| 1:23.7 | Bob, yeah, this is a crazy case. |
| 1:26.7 | You and me were both with Vinny on court TV, |
| 1:30.8 | and Vinny Politan investigates last night talking about this. |
| 1:35.0 | Let's get into this on the delay itself. |
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