December 15, 2025 • 16 mins
Just yesterday, the bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner were found inside of their Brentwood mansion.
What’s been released about the case and what’s being speculated? Did their son, Nick, really stab his parents to death? Does his past drug abuse have anything to do with it?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, guys, Welcome to a new episode of Legally Brunette.
I will be your host Emily Simpson with Shane Today
we're going to go, well, this is very breaking news.
So last night I was scrolling Instagram and I saw,
like a breaking news, Rob Reiner has been murdered along
with his wife, and I knew the name Rob Reiner immediately.
Did you you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Right? No? I didn't know really offhand.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, so I knew that I knew immediately that he
had been in Hollywood, that he was a big name
in Hollywood, but he was more of a behind the
scenes kind of guy in Hollywood. So on Sunday, December fourteenth,
the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a medical emergency
at three point thirty eight pm and found Rob Reiner
and his wife Michelle Reiner dead. A family member who
was allegedly their daughter, romy went to the house and
(00:47):
discovered them. Police said they were investigating the case as
an apparent homicide. Senior law enforcement sources told ABC News
the victims were stabbed to death in their Brentwood residence.
I actually just read recently because they just keep refreshing
and looking up articles because more information just keeps coming
out every few minutes. Honestly, that there's I read that
(01:10):
their throats were slashed. Okay, So the official cause of
death was will be determined by the LA Coroner's office,
which has not been provided yet. Rob Reiner is an
award winning director, producer, actor, and political activists whose career
includes some of Hollywood's most beloved films. From his nineteen
eighty four directorial debut, This is spinal Tap. I have
(01:33):
no idea what that is.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
If you have a final tap, you don't know what
that is.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
No, I have no idea what is that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's a big it's got a big cult falling. It's
about a band.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh, it's about a band.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, but it's it's kind of a style.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I thought it it was like a spinal tap.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That was a documentary on some medical procedures.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, I had no idea that the spinal tap is
the name of the band. Y Okay, I didn't know that.
He also did Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When
Harry met Sally, Misery, and a Few Good Men. So
those are all huge blockbuster movies. He and his wife, Michelle,
have been married since nineteen eighty nine and they share
three children together, Nick, Jake, and Romy and Nick is
(02:11):
thirty two years old, who is allegedly the killer. So
what do we know so far? Their son and let's
talk about the son and his involvement in this. According
to multiple sources who have spoken with family members, Rob
and Michelle were killed by their thirty two year old
son Nick. Okay, here's my question. This is what And
(02:32):
obviously there's not a lot of details at this point.
It just happened yesterday. I guess my question based upon
just all the true crime that we do and all
the stories that we talk about. Do you first of all,
this reminds me of Menendez because you're talking about a
wealthy Hollywood family. They live in Brentwood, the Menindez lived in. Yeah,
it's parasite. I'm so you're talking about a son that
(02:54):
killed their parents and his dead though, were sons that
killed their parents in Beverly Hills stops turning.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You just put all those pieces together. It's yeah, yes,
the son killed the parents, that's the story. But it's
steps there. We don't know that there was abuse, or
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Say there was. I'm saying that there is a parallel between.
It is parricide. That is the actual name of when
children kill their parents.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What's it called When the child kills the.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Father, patricide, and when they kill the mother, it's called matricide.
And the overall umbrella of killing your parents is called parricide.
And parriside makes up about one percent of all homicides
in the United States, just one percent, which, since we
have children, makes me feel slightly slightly better about the whole.
(03:45):
That is very true. So in a twenty sixteen interview
with People, Nick spoke about his years long struggle with
drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually
left him living on the streets. He said he cycled
in and out of rehab beginning around age fifteen, but
as his addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and
spent significant stretches homeless and multiple states. I'm going to
(04:08):
assume that he was homeless at multiple times, because I
would I would assume that his parents said, if you
don't get sober, you can't live here anymore, and so
he spent probably maybe he.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Didn't want to live there, Maybe he wanted to go
to friend's house where he could drink, where he was crashing,
where he was.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know if he was with friends. I mean,
it said he was homeless, and he claimed he was
homeless in lots of different states, Maine, in Arizona and
all these different places. So I think, I think. And
it said by eighteen he'd been.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
In read I read that at fifteen he went to
rehab for the first time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Right, and then I think by eighteen he'd been in
like nine different rehabs.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So that's I'm saying, go back to school, and like,
what do you do over the summer?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Was rehabit?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yea?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
So to me it looks as if maybe his parents
had gotten to the point where they were like you
just if you're not sober and you're not well, you
can't be here. And then these are these bouts of homelessness.
I just like to speculate on things. Also, I keep thinking,
was he at the home and there was something that
(05:15):
broke out, like there was some kind of fight that
ensued and he reached for a knife and he stabbed them,
or was this calculated, premeditated murder where he drove to
their house and he you know, liked the Menindas.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How did they like zero in on the sun.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I did read that someone said that they saw a
man outside of the house. They didn't identify him as
a son, but he had a white tesla and they
said that he wouldn't talk to press, and he got
in the car and he left. I don't know if
that was him. I don't know. But and the daughter
found the bodies and called nine to one one. So
I don't know if he was in the house near
the house Brentwood.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Have you driven in Brentwood. Everyone's got video cameras in
their house. Yeah, it could have been. They quickly looked
at that and found that, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Maybe or maybe the sister said, if you know, when
she found the parents dead, she said, it was my
brother Nick, go find maybe. So I don't know, that's
to be determined. In a twenty sixteen interview with People,
(06:22):
Nick spoke about his year's long struggle with drug addiction,
which began in his early teens and eventually left him
living on the streets. He said he cycled in and
out of rehab beginning around age fifteen, but as his
addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and spent significant
stretches of time homeless in multiple states. Nick told people
(06:43):
that the chaotic period of addiction, including nights and sometimes
weeks sleeping outside, later became the basis for a semi
autobiographical film called Being Charlie that he co wrote and
his dad, Rob Reiner, was the producer. You know, when
kids are addicted to drugs and then they have long
periods of homelessness. I think sometimes people are parents or
(07:05):
other parents are judgmental of the parents, saying maybe you
shouldn't kick them out. But I don't know what it's
like to have a child that's a drug addict, And
like we've talked about and all the interventions I've watched,
it is so harmful and tragic for everybody in the family,
the parents and the siblings and everyone. And I think
sometimes parents are left to say you have to leave,
(07:27):
you can't be here anymore because it has.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Such or or or we're not gonna allow alcohol in
our house, and then they end up leaving.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And that's the reason, right, Like, if you're going to
live here, you can't do drugs, and I'm not going
to support your drug habit and I'm not going to
give you money for drugs. So then they end up
becoming homeless. But I think I just think we have to.
I don't know. I just think it's unfair to judge
parents when they're.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Doing I shouldn't judge anyone or the child that's addicted.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
No what I'm saying. A lot of times when there's
a child who is an addict and then they end
up homeless because the parents drew a hard line and
said you're no longer welcome here. That's a very difficult
place as a parent to be in, and that's a hard,
hard decision to make. So Rob Reiner was the producer
on this film of his son's semi autobiographical film, which
(08:14):
was a drama based on his family struggles while son
Nick was addicted to hard drugs and rotating in and
out of rehabs and homelessness. It was very, very hard
going through at the first time with these painful and
difficult highs and lows, Reiner told The Times back in
twenty fifteen, and then making the movie dredged it all
up again. Speaking at the Tiff premiere of Being Charlie
(08:36):
in twenty fifteen, Rob said that the character Charlie resents
his parents for their harsh treatment amid his addictions as
they send him away from mandatory stints and rehab, which
closely follows how he and his wife treated Nick per
the Los Angeles times. When Nick would tell us that
it wasn't working for him, we woul and listen. We
were desperate, and because the people had diplomas on their wall,
(08:57):
we listened to them when we should have been listening
to our son. Michelle added, this is the mother. We
were so influenced by these people. They would tell us
he's a liar and he was trying to manipulate us,
and we believe them. Well, you know, they're probably right.
He probably was a liar, and he was probably trying
to manipulate that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh yeah, drugs. Yeah, you're not going to be.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A stand up, you know, ethical drugs exactly, all right.
So the response from Hollywood has been astounding. So a
neighbor told ABC News that actors Billy Crystal and Larry
David were seen at the house after police had arrived.
Billy looked like he was about to cry. This is
what the neighborhood said. There are two houses that the
(09:35):
Reiner family owns across the street from each other. So
Rob and his wife Michelle live in one and then
their daughter, Romy and her kids live across the street
in the other. This is according to the neighbor. An
extensive list of celebrities and politicians have spoken out about
the loss of Rob and Michelle include Barack and Michelle Obama,
California governor Gavin Newsom, actor Ben Stiller, actress Kathy Bates
(09:59):
who was in and actor John Cusack, to name just
a few. Reiner was an outspoken supporter of the Democratic Party,
championing same sex marriage, early childhood education, and the careers
of various presidential candidates. He helped overturn Proposition eight, which
was California's short lived ban on gay marriage, and took
(10:19):
on the tobacco industry in the state, where he was
mentioned at times as a potential candidate for governor. However,
he never officially ran for office, all right, and I
think this was his very last interview that he did.
He did an interview with Piers Morgan and the topic
was Charlie Kirk's death. He claimed that he found the
assassination horrific and said there was no justification for it,
(10:42):
no matter what your political beliefs are. He also talked
about the power of forgiveness after the assassination, calling Erica
Kirk's words admirable.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So sayah, despite his his position yeah on life and
people's rights, he still found it to be horrific. And
then here now he is having been killed by you son.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So the LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said, investigators need
to get a search warrant to conduct a full crime
scene investigation at Rob Reiner's home. We're waiting for the
legal process to move forward. We have to obtain a
search warrant for the residents. Once that is complied with,
we will be conducting a full crime scene investigation on
the interior and exterior of the residence and the surrounding neighborhood.
(11:30):
A source who has knowledge of the investigation but was
not authorized to speak publicly, confirm that there was no
sign of forced entry into the home.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Did he say that publicly.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He said publicly, but not confirmed. So well, because he's
commenting on something that the police will confirm or deny
later at some point after they conduct a thorough investigation.
I do have questions. My question is, again, like we
talked about, do you think that he was just at
the home visiting and then something happened, and it was
(12:05):
a heated the moment type of like, I don't know
how that happens, but you're mad, maybe screaming at each other,
you reach over, you grab a knife. But my other
question is is he's one person. He's thirty two years old.
His parents are I believe Rob Eriner seventy and his
mother's sixty eight. They look like they're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I woe.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, I've seen lots of photos, because there's
lots of family photos that have been popping up in
recent photos. They look healthy, they look like they're in shape.
I don't. I can't picture how you go for one
person with a knife and the other person is subdued somehow,
unless they're in separate rooms. Everything I know because I
need to visualize it, and I can't when there's two people, I.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Don't know because we don't know if they're in the
same room or separate rooms. Right one was asleep, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But so there'll be lots lots more details that come out,
so we will update you on those as information comes out,
and we will keep you updated. So that's all we
know right now with the Roberre in your case.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
All we know is they're dead and the sun is
in custody.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes on form. First of all, his bail says a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I think you're gonna do more speculating. You say you
like speculating, So what do you think happened?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I did well, I said. My speculating is guessing motive.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Motive?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh well, I don't. I don't know if I feel
like the motive is okay. When you think about Menandez,
A lot of people thought the motive was was wealth based.
That you know, they wanted to get rid of their parents,
so they inherit money. Obviously, Rob Reiner is.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well way spend it in jail. What are these people thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I don't know, but I'm saying that's people kill for
money all the time. We just did the the case
of the Carmen. They're thinking they're going to get away
with it. But I don't think. My gut reaction is
not that this case is financially motivated. Because he's had
such a history of mental illness and he's been in
(13:59):
a out of rehab not just mental illness, but drug
drug abuse, severe drug abuse, hardcore drug abuse, and homelessness.
This to me feels more like a like a mental
illness or he was high on drugs type of situation,
not a I'm going to get rid of my parents
so I can inherit their estate.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Right and direct the next movie and take over right, right.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So I so I don't think that is the motive.
But again my question is was it a heat of
the moment type of situation or was it premeditated and
he drove to their home and had a plan of attack.
But you know, when you murder with a knife, that
is very personal.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's it's very violent. It's you just pushed a button
and they died, right, You had to.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Literally you and and to cut their throats, like you
are as close to the person as the next one
as you can physically get.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And then go to the next one exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Also, I think TMZ first reported on it that the
night before the murder that they had all been at
a Christmas party at Conan O'Brien's house.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
With children too.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, I believe Nick was there and the parents were there,
and allegedly there was a fight like a screaming match
that broke out between the parents and Nick Conan's house. Yeah,
this was TMZ reporting, So I don't know I'm just saying,
it's not The New York Times, it's tmzest journalists. So
(15:25):
allegedly they got in a fight the night before. I
don't know, maybe that has something to do with what
happened the next day.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It's on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's not right until until it makes into my reels.
Then it is official. So anyway, that's what we know
so far on the Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle case.
We will keep you updated on that. Information keeps coming
out just rapidly or rapidly, so I we'll most definitely
(15:52):
be talking about this on our next episode. So they
more and we will speculate more. Absolutely so, thanks for listening.
We appreciate you guys. MHM
Hi, guys, Welcome to a new episode of Legally Brunette.
I will be your host Emily Simpson with Shane Today
we're going to go, well, this is very breaking news.
So last night I was scrolling Instagram and I saw,
like a breaking news, Rob Reiner has been murdered along
with his wife, and I knew the name Rob Reiner immediately.
Did you you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Right? No? I didn't know really offhand.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, so I knew that I knew immediately that he
had been in Hollywood, that he was a big name
in Hollywood, but he was more of a behind the
scenes kind of guy in Hollywood. So on Sunday, December fourteenth,
the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a medical emergency
at three point thirty eight pm and found Rob Reiner
and his wife Michelle Reiner dead. A family member who
was allegedly their daughter, romy went to the house and
(00:47):
discovered them. Police said they were investigating the case as
an apparent homicide. Senior law enforcement sources told ABC News
the victims were stabbed to death in their Brentwood residence.
I actually just read recently because they just keep refreshing
and looking up articles because more information just keeps coming
out every few minutes. Honestly, that there's I read that
(01:10):
their throats were slashed. Okay, So the official cause of
death was will be determined by the LA Coroner's office,
which has not been provided yet. Rob Reiner is an
award winning director, producer, actor, and political activists whose career
includes some of Hollywood's most beloved films. From his nineteen
eighty four directorial debut, This is spinal Tap. I have
(01:33):
no idea what that is.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
If you have a final tap, you don't know what
that is.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
No, I have no idea what is that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's a big it's got a big cult falling. It's
about a band.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh, it's about a band.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, but it's it's kind of a style.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I thought it it was like a spinal tap.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That was a documentary on some medical procedures.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, I had no idea that the spinal tap is
the name of the band. Y Okay, I didn't know that.
He also did Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When
Harry met Sally, Misery, and a Few Good Men. So
those are all huge blockbuster movies. He and his wife, Michelle,
have been married since nineteen eighty nine and they share
three children together, Nick, Jake, and Romy and Nick is
(02:11):
thirty two years old, who is allegedly the killer. So
what do we know so far? Their son and let's
talk about the son and his involvement in this. According
to multiple sources who have spoken with family members, Rob
and Michelle were killed by their thirty two year old
son Nick. Okay, here's my question. This is what And
(02:32):
obviously there's not a lot of details at this point.
It just happened yesterday. I guess my question based upon
just all the true crime that we do and all
the stories that we talk about. Do you first of all,
this reminds me of Menendez because you're talking about a
wealthy Hollywood family. They live in Brentwood, the Menindez lived in. Yeah,
it's parasite. I'm so you're talking about a son that
(02:54):
killed their parents and his dead though, were sons that
killed their parents in Beverly Hills stops turning.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You just put all those pieces together. It's yeah, yes,
the son killed the parents, that's the story. But it's
steps there. We don't know that there was abuse, or
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Say there was. I'm saying that there is a parallel between.
It is parricide. That is the actual name of when
children kill their parents.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What's it called When the child kills the.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Father, patricide, and when they kill the mother, it's called matricide.
And the overall umbrella of killing your parents is called parricide.
And parriside makes up about one percent of all homicides
in the United States, just one percent, which, since we
have children, makes me feel slightly slightly better about the whole.
(03:45):
That is very true. So in a twenty sixteen interview
with People, Nick spoke about his years long struggle with
drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually
left him living on the streets. He said he cycled
in and out of rehab beginning around age fifteen, but
as his addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and
spent significant stretches homeless and multiple states. I'm going to
(04:08):
assume that he was homeless at multiple times, because I
would I would assume that his parents said, if you
don't get sober, you can't live here anymore, and so
he spent probably maybe he.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Didn't want to live there, Maybe he wanted to go
to friend's house where he could drink, where he was crashing,
where he was.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know if he was with friends. I mean,
it said he was homeless, and he claimed he was
homeless in lots of different states, Maine, in Arizona and
all these different places. So I think, I think. And
it said by eighteen he'd been.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
In read I read that at fifteen he went to
rehab for the first time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Right, and then I think by eighteen he'd been in
like nine different rehabs.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So that's I'm saying, go back to school, and like,
what do you do over the summer?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Was rehabit?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yea?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
So to me it looks as if maybe his parents
had gotten to the point where they were like you
just if you're not sober and you're not well, you
can't be here. And then these are these bouts of homelessness.
I just like to speculate on things. Also, I keep thinking,
was he at the home and there was something that
(05:15):
broke out, like there was some kind of fight that
ensued and he reached for a knife and he stabbed them,
or was this calculated, premeditated murder where he drove to
their house and he you know, liked the Menindas.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How did they like zero in on the sun.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I did read that someone said that they saw a
man outside of the house. They didn't identify him as
a son, but he had a white tesla and they
said that he wouldn't talk to press, and he got
in the car and he left. I don't know if
that was him. I don't know. But and the daughter
found the bodies and called nine to one one. So
I don't know if he was in the house near
the house Brentwood.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Have you driven in Brentwood. Everyone's got video cameras in
their house. Yeah, it could have been. They quickly looked
at that and found that, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Maybe or maybe the sister said, if you know, when
she found the parents dead, she said, it was my
brother Nick, go find maybe. So I don't know, that's
to be determined. In a twenty sixteen interview with People,
(06:22):
Nick spoke about his year's long struggle with drug addiction,
which began in his early teens and eventually left him
living on the streets. He said he cycled in and
out of rehab beginning around age fifteen, but as his
addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and spent significant
stretches of time homeless in multiple states. Nick told people
(06:43):
that the chaotic period of addiction, including nights and sometimes
weeks sleeping outside, later became the basis for a semi
autobiographical film called Being Charlie that he co wrote and
his dad, Rob Reiner, was the producer. You know, when
kids are addicted to drugs and then they have long
periods of homelessness. I think sometimes people are parents or
(07:05):
other parents are judgmental of the parents, saying maybe you
shouldn't kick them out. But I don't know what it's
like to have a child that's a drug addict, And
like we've talked about and all the interventions I've watched,
it is so harmful and tragic for everybody in the family,
the parents and the siblings and everyone. And I think
sometimes parents are left to say you have to leave,
(07:27):
you can't be here anymore because it has.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Such or or or we're not gonna allow alcohol in
our house, and then they end up leaving.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And that's the reason, right, Like, if you're going to
live here, you can't do drugs, and I'm not going
to support your drug habit and I'm not going to
give you money for drugs. So then they end up
becoming homeless. But I think I just think we have to.
I don't know. I just think it's unfair to judge
parents when they're.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Doing I shouldn't judge anyone or the child that's addicted.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
No what I'm saying. A lot of times when there's
a child who is an addict and then they end
up homeless because the parents drew a hard line and
said you're no longer welcome here. That's a very difficult
place as a parent to be in, and that's a hard,
hard decision to make. So Rob Reiner was the producer
on this film of his son's semi autobiographical film, which
(08:14):
was a drama based on his family struggles while son
Nick was addicted to hard drugs and rotating in and
out of rehabs and homelessness. It was very, very hard
going through at the first time with these painful and
difficult highs and lows, Reiner told The Times back in
twenty fifteen, and then making the movie dredged it all
up again. Speaking at the Tiff premiere of Being Charlie
(08:36):
in twenty fifteen, Rob said that the character Charlie resents
his parents for their harsh treatment amid his addictions as
they send him away from mandatory stints and rehab, which
closely follows how he and his wife treated Nick per
the Los Angeles times. When Nick would tell us that
it wasn't working for him, we woul and listen. We
were desperate, and because the people had diplomas on their wall,
(08:57):
we listened to them when we should have been listening
to our son. Michelle added, this is the mother. We
were so influenced by these people. They would tell us
he's a liar and he was trying to manipulate us,
and we believe them. Well, you know, they're probably right.
He probably was a liar, and he was probably trying
to manipulate that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh yeah, drugs. Yeah, you're not going to be.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A stand up, you know, ethical drugs exactly, all right.
So the response from Hollywood has been astounding. So a
neighbor told ABC News that actors Billy Crystal and Larry
David were seen at the house after police had arrived.
Billy looked like he was about to cry. This is
what the neighborhood said. There are two houses that the
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Reiner family owns across the street from each other. So
Rob and his wife Michelle live in one and then
their daughter, Romy and her kids live across the street
in the other. This is according to the neighbor. An
extensive list of celebrities and politicians have spoken out about
the loss of Rob and Michelle include Barack and Michelle Obama,
California governor Gavin Newsom, actor Ben Stiller, actress Kathy Bates
(09:59):
who was in and actor John Cusack, to name just
a few. Reiner was an outspoken supporter of the Democratic Party,
championing same sex marriage, early childhood education, and the careers
of various presidential candidates. He helped overturn Proposition eight, which
was California's short lived ban on gay marriage, and took
(10:19):
on the tobacco industry in the state, where he was
mentioned at times as a potential candidate for governor. However,
he never officially ran for office, all right, and I
think this was his very last interview that he did.
He did an interview with Piers Morgan and the topic
was Charlie Kirk's death. He claimed that he found the
assassination horrific and said there was no justification for it,
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no matter what your political beliefs are. He also talked
about the power of forgiveness after the assassination, calling Erica
Kirk's words admirable.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So sayah, despite his his position yeah on life and
people's rights, he still found it to be horrific. And
then here now he is having been killed by you son.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So the LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said, investigators need
to get a search warrant to conduct a full crime
scene investigation at Rob Reiner's home. We're waiting for the
legal process to move forward. We have to obtain a
search warrant for the residents. Once that is complied with,
we will be conducting a full crime scene investigation on
the interior and exterior of the residence and the surrounding neighborhood.
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A source who has knowledge of the investigation but was
not authorized to speak publicly, confirm that there was no
sign of forced entry into the home.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Did he say that publicly.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He said publicly, but not confirmed. So well, because he's
commenting on something that the police will confirm or deny
later at some point after they conduct a thorough investigation.
I do have questions. My question is, again, like we
talked about, do you think that he was just at
the home visiting and then something happened, and it was
(12:05):
a heated the moment type of like, I don't know
how that happens, but you're mad, maybe screaming at each other,
you reach over, you grab a knife. But my other
question is is he's one person. He's thirty two years old.
His parents are I believe Rob Eriner seventy and his
mother's sixty eight. They look like they're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I woe.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, I've seen lots of photos, because there's
lots of family photos that have been popping up in
recent photos. They look healthy, they look like they're in shape.
I don't. I can't picture how you go for one
person with a knife and the other person is subdued somehow,
unless they're in separate rooms. Everything I know because I
need to visualize it, and I can't when there's two people, I.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Don't know because we don't know if they're in the
same room or separate rooms. Right one was asleep, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But so there'll be lots lots more details that come out,
so we will update you on those as information comes out,
and we will keep you updated. So that's all we
know right now with the Roberre in your case.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
All we know is they're dead and the sun is
in custody.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes on form. First of all, his bail says a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I think you're gonna do more speculating. You say you
like speculating, So what do you think happened?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I did well, I said. My speculating is guessing motive.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Motive?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh well, I don't. I don't know if I feel
like the motive is okay. When you think about Menandez,
A lot of people thought the motive was was wealth based.
That you know, they wanted to get rid of their parents,
so they inherit money. Obviously, Rob Reiner is.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well way spend it in jail. What are these people thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I don't know, but I'm saying that's people kill for
money all the time. We just did the the case
of the Carmen. They're thinking they're going to get away
with it. But I don't think. My gut reaction is
not that this case is financially motivated. Because he's had
such a history of mental illness and he's been in
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a out of rehab not just mental illness, but drug
drug abuse, severe drug abuse, hardcore drug abuse, and homelessness.
This to me feels more like a like a mental
illness or he was high on drugs type of situation,
not a I'm going to get rid of my parents
so I can inherit their estate.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Right and direct the next movie and take over right, right.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So I so I don't think that is the motive.
But again my question is was it a heat of
the moment type of situation or was it premeditated and
he drove to their home and had a plan of attack.
But you know, when you murder with a knife, that
is very personal.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's it's very violent. It's you just pushed a button
and they died, right, You had to.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Literally you and and to cut their throats, like you
are as close to the person as the next one
as you can physically get.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And then go to the next one exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Also, I think TMZ first reported on it that the
night before the murder that they had all been at
a Christmas party at Conan O'Brien's house.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
With children too.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, I believe Nick was there and the parents were there,
and allegedly there was a fight like a screaming match
that broke out between the parents and Nick Conan's house. Yeah,
this was TMZ reporting, So I don't know I'm just saying,
it's not The New York Times, it's tmzest journalists. So
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allegedly they got in a fight the night before. I
don't know, maybe that has something to do with what
happened the next day.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It's on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's not right until until it makes into my reels.
Then it is official. So anyway, that's what we know
so far on the Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle case.
We will keep you updated on that. Information keeps coming
out just rapidly or rapidly, so I we'll most definitely
(15:52):
be talking about this on our next episode. So they
more and we will speculate more. Absolutely so, thanks for listening.
We appreciate you guys. MHM
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