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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Episoder(130)

What Nick Reiner Faces Now That Death Is Off the Table

The death penalty is gone from Nick Reiner's case. DA Nathan Hochman announced the decision after conversations with Jake and Romy Reiner and a review of the case. Sources say Rob and Michele Reiner's...

18 Sep 20min

Nick Reiner’s Record Next to Lindsay Clancy’s Changes the Whole Debate

Concealment of purpose. Watching and waiting. A surprise attack from a position of advantage. Specific intent to kill. Those are the four elements prosecutors must prove to make the lying-in-wait spec...

10 Sep 16min

Nick Reiner's Grand Jury Indictment Changes the Death Penalty Math

The death penalty math in the Nick Reiner case just changed. A grand jury indictment unsealed August 12 adds lying in wait as a second special circumstance to the murder charges. The original filing c...

14 Aug 17min

Nick Reiner Kept Walking Out. Lindsay Clancy Kept Asking.

Nick Reiner spent seventeen years with help arriving at his door, and by his own account in interviews given long before any of this, he kept leaving it standing there.His own account of it is on the ...

7 Aug 16min

Nick Reiner Turned Down The Help Lindsay Clancy Chased

Nick Reiner had help brought to him for seventeen years and kept walking out of it. Lindsay Clancy went looking for help and couldn't get anybody to keep her more than a day. Same three words on both ...

7 Aug 16min

Nick Reiner: The Fight Nobody Stopped In Time

Nine months after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home, this episode goes deeper into the detail that's stuck with Hidden Killers listeners more than any other: t...

14 Jul 20min

How Do The Reiner Siblings Live With An Ending That Never Comes?

Romy Reiner walked into her parents' home because they weren't answering the door, found her father, and called for help — only to learn the suspect was her own brother. This look back stays with her,...

11 Jul 36min

Is Nick Reiner Really Writing A Book To Hurt His Own Siblings?

Jake Reiner said he'd trade every Dodger game and every Broadway show for one more hour with his parents. That's the grief Jake, Romy, and Tracy are living inside — and now, according to tabloid repor...

7 Jul 36min