The Reiner Murders | The Trial Of Nick Reiner

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 Conan O'Brien Party Behavior: What Witnesses Saw Hours Before the Murders

Nick Reiner's Conan O'Brien Party Behavior: What Witnesses Saw Hours Before the Murders

What happened at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party on December 13th may become key testimony in the case against Nick Reiner. Multiple witnesses have described Nick's behavior that night in detail: he a...

27 Jan 13min

Reiner & Kohberger Cases: FBI Expert Compares Family Blind Spots to Institutional Negligence

Reiner & Kohberger Cases: FBI Expert Compares Family Blind Spots to Institutional Negligence

Nick Reiner's family had access to the best treatment money could buy. Washington State University had formal complaint systems, Title IX protocols, and supervisory authority over Bryan Kohberger. In ...

27 Jan 47min

Nick Reiner Q&A Plus: Kohberger WSU Lawsuit & Tepe Murder — When Systems Fail Families

Nick Reiner Q&A Plus: Kohberger WSU Lawsuit & Tepe Murder — When Systems Fail Families

We're answering your questions on the Nick Reiner case — and putting it in context alongside two other cases that expose the same brutal truth: the systems meant to protect people don't always work. N...

27 Jan 1h 9min

Everything and Nothing: The Full Story of Nick Reiner's Entitled Life Before He Allegedly Killed Rob and Michele Reiner

Everything and Nothing: The Full Story of Nick Reiner's Entitled Life Before He Allegedly Killed Rob and Michele Reiner

This is the definitive breakdown of who Nick Reiner was before December 14, 2025—the day his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, were found stabbed to death ...

27 Jan 41min

Nick Reiner Q&A: Enabling, Schizophrenia, Alan Jackson & the Conan O'Brien Party

Nick Reiner Q&A: Enabling, Schizophrenia, Alan Jackson & the Conan O'Brien Party

You asked, we're answering. The Nick Reiner case has generated more questions than almost any story we've covered — and we're dedicating this episode to working through them. Why did Alan Jackson quit...

26 Jan 30min

Why Couldn't the Reiners See It? FBI Behavioral Analysis & Comprehensive Psychology Breakdown

Why Couldn't the Reiners See It? FBI Behavioral Analysis & Comprehensive Psychology Breakdown

They called police in 2019. They obtained conservatorship in 2020. By December 2025, Rob was publicly saying they should have listened to Nick instead of the professionals—and they went to sleep in a ...

26 Jan 1h 15min

Why Couldn't the Reiners See the Threat? FBI Behavioral Analysis & The Conservatorship That Protected No One

Why Couldn't the Reiners See the Threat? FBI Behavioral Analysis & The Conservatorship That Protected No One

They called police in 2019. They obtained conservatorship in 2020. By December 2025, Rob was publicly saying they should have listened to Nick instead of the professionals—and they went to sleep in a ...

25 Jan 49min

Nick Reiner's 2020 Conservatorship: Why California Law May Have Doomed His Parents

Nick Reiner's 2020 Conservatorship: Why California Law May Have Doomed His Parents

A judge found Nick Reiner "gravely disabled" in 2020 and placed him under LPS conservatorship—the most powerful mental health intervention California law allows. Licensed fiduciary Steven Baer control...

25 Jan 51min

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