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A stoic Nick Reiner appeared successful Los Angeles Superior Court connected Wednesday for a preliminary proceeding mounting successful relationship to nan December 2025 murders of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
Nick, 32, wore a yellowish situation jumpsuit and bluish pants, sporting a shaved caput and afloat beard. He did not grin arsenic he sat emotionless beside Los Angeles County Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene, who took complete nan lawsuit successful January aft high-profile lawyer Alan Jackson withdrew.
Nick maintained an icy look arsenic he mumbled his little responses to Judge Samuel Ohta.
Greene explained that she and her squad were still waiting connected Rob and Michele’s autopsy reports, truthful Ohta extended nan preliminary proceeding mounting to Sept. 15.
Nick was arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers connected Dec. 14, 2025, soon aft his dada and mom — who were 78 and 70, respectively — were recovered stabbed to decease wrong their Brentwood home.
Nick was charged pinch 2 counts of first-degree murder pinch typical circumstances of aggregate murders and individual usage of a knife.
According to Rob and Michele’s decease certificates, they died wrong “minutes” of receiving “multiple crisp unit injuries” pinch a “knife, by another.”
If convicted, Nick — who has remained down bars astatine Twin Towers Correctional Facility since his apprehension — faces a imaginable decease condemnation aliases life successful situation without nan anticipation of parole.
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Nick — who had gotten into an statement pinch his parents astatine Conan O’Brien’s Dec. 13 Christmas party — was diagnosed pinch schizophrenia before nan killings and has a agelong history of supplier addiction.
He pleaded not guilty successful February.
Rob and Michele, who had been joined since 1989, were besides parents to boy Jake Reiner, 34 and girl Romy Reiner, 28. Prior to marrying Michele, nan actor-director was joined to Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981. During their relationship, Rob adopted her daughter, Tracy Reiner, 61.
Jake broke his silence connected his parents’ deaths last week successful a Substack essay that elaborate nan nonstop infinitesimal he recovered retired they had died.
“I was successful Union Station astatine a ceremony of life for 1 of my champion friends, Christian Anderson, who died successful October,” Jake wrote. “It was astatine that infinitesimal I received a telephone from my sister Romy telling maine our begetter was dead. Minutes later, she called backmost telling maine our mother was besides dead.”
Jake continued, “The 45-minute Lyft thrust from downtown to nan westbound broadside was unendurable. My world, arsenic I knew it, had collapsed. I was successful a trance. The only point I could attraction connected was that I needed to get to my puerility home. I needed to get to my sister. I needed to fig retired what nan hellhole conscionable happened.”
Jake lamented that he feels “robbed of truthful galore things” aft losing his dada and mom, noting that nan calamity “simultaneously breaks my bosom and enrages me.”
“Nothing tin hole you for what it feels for illustration to suffer some parents instantly astatine nan aforesaid time,” he added. “It’s excessively devastating to comprehend. I still aftermath up each greeting having to person myself that, no, it’s not a dream. This genuinely is my surviving nightmare.”
