The Reiner Murders | The Trial Of Nick Reiner

Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved films in American history. On December 14, 2024, he and his wife Michele were stabbed to death in their Brentwood home. Their daughter found the bodies. Their son Nick was arrested that night.

This podcast covers the case from arrest through trial — but the real story starts seventeen years earlier.

Nick Reiner went to rehab at fifteen. By nineteen, he'd been through seventeen programs. Homeless in three states. Heroin. Meth. His parents had every resource imaginable — money, connections, access to the best treatment in the country. They followed the protocols. They trusted the experts. They did everything right by the system's standards.

And the system gave them nothing.

Because here's what nobody wants to say out loud: in America, if your adult child is addicted, mentally ill, or dangerous, your legal options are essentially zero. You can beg. You can pay. But you cannot force treatment. Their autonomy is protected. Your safety is not.

The Reiners lived that nightmare for almost two decades. It ended the way these stories sometimes do — with two people dead and a family destroyed.

This isn't true crime as entertainment. No breathless narration. No shock-jock nonsense. Just rigorous, fact-based coverage with legal experts, former prosecutors, defense attorneys, and behavioral analysts breaking down the evidence, the strategy, and the questions that actually matter.

We're following this case because it exposes something broken in how we handle mental illness, addiction, and families in crisis. The Reiners had every advantage. It didn't save them.

New episodes as the case develops.

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Nick Reiner’s Parents Built Him a Trust as a Baby — He’s Cashing It From a Jail Cell

Rob and Michele Reiner created a trust for their son when he was a baby. They funded it. They structured it so half would come to Nick on his thirtieth birthday, with the rest due at thirty-five. The ...

21 Kesä 1h 15min

What Nick Reiner’s Lawyers Filed About Rob and Michele’s Trust

Rob and Michele Reiner set up a trust for their son Nick when he was born. They chose terms that were supposed to protect him for life — half the money at thirty, the rest at thirty-five, with languag...

20 Kesä 34min

Nick Reiner's $1.5 Million Petition Dies If His Parents Had Added One Clause

Nick Reiner $1.5 million petition — one trust clause would have made this filing legally impossible. The Reiner trust reportedly didn't have it. Neither do most family trusts in America.According to t...

19 Kesä 18min

Why Is Nick Reiner’s Money Now With Britney Spears’ Old Conservator?

The newest name in the Rob Reiner murder case isn’t a detective, a prosecutor, or a defense attorney. It’s Jodi Pais Montgomery — the professional fiduciary best known as Britney Spears’ former conser...

17 Kesä 27min

Why Did Nick Reiner’s Own Siblings Stop Paying for His Defense?

Jake and Romy Reiner buried their parents. Then they hired a defense attorney for the brother accused of killing them. And then they stopped. That decision — and what came after it — is the center of ...

12 Kesä 23min

Rob And Michele Reiner's Money Could Pay Their Accused Killer's Lawyer

For everyone following the Reiner case who has asked the question out loud — how is this even possible? — this episode is the answer.Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son Nick when he was...

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Why Didn't Nick Reiner Ever Get The Money His Parents Promised?

Before anyone asks what happens to Rob and Michele Reiner's money, there's a harder question hiding inside this Nick Reiner case update: why didn't he ever get it while they were alive?The trust they ...

12 Kesä 16min

Why Is One Reiner Brother Grieving While The Other Reportedly Retaliates?

Jake Reiner said he'd trade every Dodger game and every Broadway show for one more hour with his parents. He wrote it in a Substack essay that reads like a son saying goodbye in the only way left avai...

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