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On Tuesday, prosecutors investigating the death of Rob and Michelle Reiner said they planned to charge the couple's son, Nick, with first-degree murder.

Today, Julia Jacobs on what we're learning about the death of a Hollywood legend,

and Wesley Morris on why so many of Reiner's films are among the most beloved movies ever made.

It's Wednesday, December 17th.

Julie, I appreciate you coming in today.

Thanks for having me.

I just want to say at the outset, perhaps this is obvious,

but the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle,

is a very gruesome and tragic situation, And we do not want to linger on it

for a long time in this conversation. In fact, I hope we don't have to linger on it much

at all. But I do think we should briefly talk about what we know at this point about what actually

happened. You're right. It's an absolute tragedy and there are a lot of questions right now. But what

we do know is that on Sunday, the authorities were called to Rob Reiner's home in Brentwood,

a neighborhood in Los Angeles. And the first information that came out was that there were two deceased individuals inside.

And they listed the ages, but not initially the identities, but the ages matched up roughly with those of Rob Reiner, the Hollywood director, and his wife, Michelle Singer-Riner, who is a photographer and a producer.

And later that night, on Sunday night, their son, Nick, was arrested.

And eventually, police said they were investigating his role in their deaths.

Right, which was a shocking piece of information.

Yes. And then on Tuesday, prosecutors announced that they intended to charge Nick Reiner with two counts of first-degree murder.

Right.

Making very official this genuinely horrible scenario in which a child had killed both of his parents.

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