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Legally Brunette

Updates on the Reiner Murders

Legally Brunette

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Nick Reiner has officially been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. 
Emily and Shane are diving into new details about his strange behavior the night before the murders, the bloodied hotel room he left behind and the surveillance video showing his arrest. 

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0:00.0

Hi, guys. Welcome to an episode of Legally Brunette. I will be your host, Emily Simpson, with

0:06.5

Shane. With Shane. Okay, so today we're going to do an update on the Rob and Michelle

0:11.7

Reiner case. We have done a previous episode when there was just breaking news. So obviously,

0:17.9

because this is huge, everybody's talking about it, there's new information that's

0:22.8

coming out quickly, rapidly each day. So we're going to do an update. And obviously this case

0:28.4

will be ongoing. So there'll probably be lots of updates in regards to this.

0:32.7

All the way through the sentencing. So the New York Times reported on some of the latest updates.

0:37.4

It was a good article

0:38.0

because they broke down. You know, I take information from a lot of places, but this was a really

0:42.1

good article. So Nick Reiner made a brief initial court appearance Wednesday morning, but did not

0:46.2

enter a plea one day after prosecutors charged him with murder and the stabbing deaths of his parents.

0:52.0

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has confirmed that Rob and Michelle Reiner

0:57.3

died Sunday from multiple sharp force injuries.

1:02.0

Now, we talked about earlier, I believe, that it was reported or speculated maybe.

1:07.6

I don't know if it's been confirmed that it was, that they were slit, like their

1:12.7

throats were slit, yeah.

1:15.3

The LAPD assistant chief Dominic Choi told police commissioners on Tuesday that investigators

1:20.9

quickly focused on the couple's younger son, Nick Reiner, within hours of the discovery.

1:26.5

He was taken into custody Sunday night without

1:28.7

incident. You know, that was also a question I had. We still don't know the exact time frame of when

1:33.9

they believe the murders took place, but we talked about in this previous episode, because again,

1:39.3

I always question how someone overcomes to people. So we do know that the bodies were found in the master bedroom,

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