December 15, 2025 • 34 mins
The segment explored the unique pressures faced by children of celebrities, with a particular focus on how sons often struggle under the weight of legacy, expectations, and public scrutiny. The conversation referenced Rob Reiner’s past openness about his son’s personal challenges, including a discussion with Sam Rubin in which Reiner spoke candidly about the difficulties his son faced growing up in the spotlight.
Attention then turned to reports and allegations surrounding a devastating family tragedy involving the Reiners, which sent shockwaves through Hollywood. According to accounts discussed on air, close friends—including Billy Crystal and his wife—were among those who encountered the aftermath, underscoring how deeply the event affected the entertainment community.
The program revisited prior public incidents that hinted at serious family strain, including a heated argument between Rob Reiner and his son at a Conan O’Brien holiday party that centered on concerns over substance abuse. The discussion noted that Nick Reiner had reportedly undergone numerous stints in rehabilitation, highlighting the long and painful battle many families face when addiction is involved.
Clips from a past appearance by Rob and his son on The Howard Stern Show were referenced, where they spoke about collaborating on the film Being Charlie, a project that mirrored real-life struggles with addiction and recovery. The irony of art reflecting life was not lost on the hosts.
As details continued to emerge through media reports, correspondents shared the latest developments, including accounts of who discovered the couple and where an arrest was said to have taken place. The segment closed with listener reactions, many expressing shock, grief, and empathy, while reflecting on the broader themes of mental illness, addiction, and the tragic consequences when those struggles go unchecked.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We are remembering Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner who last
night were brutally murdered. And the main suspect is their
son Nick, their middle son. I think he's the middle son.
Is the older son, Jake, I think the I can't.
I don't remember if the older son is Jake or
the middle son is Jake.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I think Jake's the oldest. Jake is the oldest.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Jake is a terrific reporter again, and I think he
was in Chicago and then he went to Arizona in Phoenix,
and then he worked for CBS for some time and
just a great kid. And now him and his daughter,
I mean, his sister, romy are the only two left
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in that family. And this happened I believe wasn't yesterday,
the first day of Hanukkah. Maybe wrong with them, but
I think we're very close to the first day of Honkah,
and it was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's a weird, horrible, awful time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's never a good time for this, but right before
the holidays, right before Hanukkah. I know his both of
his parents were, at least back then when we knew them,
when I knew them more on a regular basis, very
religious and very supportive, and love to decorate their house
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and celebrate. I think they celebrated both Hanka and Christmas
by just a beautiful home and a great life, and
all of it destroyed by allegedly by this kid. Look,
if you're in show business, you're an actor, actress, director, writer, performer.
If you have a daughter, lottery, you have won the lottery.
(01:56):
If you have a son, man some time, it's tough.
It is really tough on these sons. I don't know
what it is, but it's always always tougher on the
sons than it is on the daughters.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I don't know why that is.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Like I know, George Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin, beautiful, fond,
great memories, funny memories of her dad and just couldn't
be nicer and funnier and just a great sort of
tribute to how she was raised. And she wrote a
(02:38):
terrific funny book and just a really sweet person. And
most daughters of celebrities are exactly like that. You know
Carol Burnett's kids, Aaron, Jody, Carrie, who is no longer
with us. The sweetest girls in the world, just brilliant
(02:58):
and funny and you know, very supportive of their parents,
never show any signs of anxiety or craziness. But man,
you look at some of the sons of these celebrities,
some of them are really off their rockers. Really all right,
we're still editing the Howards. During an interview, we found
(03:20):
a couple of f words still in there, So we
are waiting because we don't want to get fined.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And that's unusual thrown off the air. Yeah, it is,
it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Rob Reiner's son talked to Sam Rubin about his struggles
and so we can listen to that audio while we're
editing the Howard Stern audio.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Your son has been very open with the demons that
he's faced, and you've talked about this, and you talked
about it very eloquently with Howard that drug abuse and
other things people like to keep family secret secrets. In
the course of this, did you make a determination, Hey,
you know what, Nick, We're gonna make this movie, but
we're going to talk about what.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You went through.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Well, that is the basis of the movie. I mean,
one of the biggest problems I have with AA is
the second A, which is the anonymous part. And to me,
people who are struggling with substance abuse, whether it's alcohol, drugs,
whether it's you know, sex or gambling, whatever it is,
they're in pain. They're using these you know, drugs or
(04:19):
alcohol as a way of self medicating. They have problems,
they have emotional problems, and so to me, you have
to destigmatize things you distigmatize by talking about it and
saying we're not alone. I mean, I guarantee you there's
somebody in everybody's either family or sphere, or best or
a good friend that is struggling with different issues.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I have eating issues.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Everybody has something, and so to be able to talk
about it openly I think is positive and I think
ultimately it turns about, you know, Republicans and Democrats, whis
the one issue we're all in agreement on that we
have to approach this thing not as punitive, not punishing people,
but help.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Very well said you know, a friend of mine said
to me. He said, if you take all your family problems,
you know, the craziness, and your brothers, sisters, aunt, uncles, mom, dad,
and you take all your family problems and you put
them out on the curb. You write them on a chalkboard,
and you put them on a curb so everyone in
the neighborhood can read them and experience them. And then
(05:23):
you walk around the neighborhood and all your neighbors do
the same thing. They write all their problems down on
a chalkboard. You go around your neighborhood and read.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
All of them.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You would run back to your house and run inside
and lock the door because you have no idea what's
lurking behind those doors of even your neighbors and even
some of your good friends. You know, you might have
a best friend for thirty years that have no idea
that their son or daughter is not well.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And it's really tough.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's really tough on people to talk about stuff like
that as well, especially if you come from an Irish
Catholic family like I do, where nobody ever talks about
anything ever.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
All right, let's talk about the details in the arrest
here of their son, Nick Reiner.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Following the brutal double murder of director and actor Rob
Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer happening right now. Confirmation
that the couple's son he is behind bars in an
LA County jail.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He is the suspect in this case.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Just in the last hour, officials in LA gave an
update on their investigation.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Here's what they had to say. Thank you, Kevian Bland.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
As he said, the information at this stage is still limited,
but I'll share what we can. First of all, our
hearts go out to the family and friends of the
Reiners tragic incident. Yesterday, at twelfth, December fourteenth, about three
point forty in the afternoon, LAPD responded to a residence
(06:51):
the residents of Rob and Michelle Reiner, located in West
Los Angeles Division. At that location, they found two deceased adults,
a male and a female. Through the night, working with
the Coroner's office, they were able to identify them definitively
as Rob and Michelle Reiner. We have our Robbery Homicide
Division handling the investigation. They work throughout the night on
(07:15):
this case and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner,
a suspect in this case. He was subsequently booked for
murder and is being held on four million dollar bail.
Pretty much that's what I can share at this point,
but again, a very very tragic incident. Yeah, you know,
(07:37):
we use search warrants to be able to further our investigation.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
As you know on all of these cases.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I wouldn't be in a position to talk specifically about
what the object of the search warrant was, but it's
a critical pie of our investigations to be able to
ensure down the road to prosecution.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know, it was odd last night I was listening
to Alan Hamilton, he is the chief of detectives at
l and they said they were waiting for a search
warrant to be signed so they can go in the
house and search it. And I thought that is so
odd that that. I thought in the past, if there's
a murder, that the cops can go in and look
(08:14):
at anything and talk to anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I thought that was strange.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Like if there was a murder, you know, at a
I don't know, at a fast food place, I don't
think they'd wait for a search warrant. They'd go in
and do the investigation. So there must be something. Must
have been something else. Maybe they wanted to let you
know through the press, maybe not let on that they
were looking for Nick Reiner and they didn't want him
(08:39):
to do something stupid or harm himself. That's the only
reason I could come up with why they didn't why
they were saying they were waiting for a search warrant.
All right, here's more of what the details on Nick
Reiner's arrest.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All right, that from LAPD.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Let's go deeper, bringing in CBS new Senior Coordinating Producer
for the Crime of Public Safety Unit, Anna Scheckter.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Anna, what a track here? What else do we know?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Okay, what else do we know? We come back, We'll
play this audio for you here. It is a very
very gloomy, sad day in show business. Thousands of people
have either worked or knew Rob Reiner, or lived near
him or related to him in this city, in this business,
and it's a very sad, deep dark time for show business.
(09:27):
If you have worked with the Hiners, or you knew
the Rhiners in any way, maybe you worked on a movie,
maybe they came to your restaurant, whatever, and you just
want to be able to talk about Rob Reiner or
Michelle Reiner and your alone in your house or in
your car, and you desperately want to tell somebody you
(09:49):
know how great the family was or something you knew
about the family. Call us here, we'll put you on
the air. One eight hundred and five to two oho
one five three four. This is a very powerful radio
station in the heart of show business, and there are
hundreds of people listening right now who either knew or
worked with the Reiners and maybe have an interesting story
(10:14):
to tell us. One eight hundred five two oh one
five three four. You can also do the talk back
on the website as well. Just go to KFI AM
six forty dot com and you'll see the little red
microphone there. You can hit that and speak into your
phone or your watch, whatever, and they'll play some of
those on the air. But if you knew the family
(10:36):
and or had any run in with the family, you know,
in a in the last twenty thirty forty fifty years,
I know there's a lot of people listening to KFI
who knew this family, and you may just want you
may want to share a story about the Hiners. One
eight hundred five two oh one five three four. It's
Convoys show. We're remembering the Rhiners, Rob and Michelle, tiful
(11:00):
people who have left us way too early, and the
son Nick is the main suspect, and it's.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
A horrible story, right before the holidays.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's one of the worst stories in show business, in
the history of show business.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
But we're remembering Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Reiner.
They were killed last night in their mansion, this beautiful, beautiful,
huge home that they lived in, I believe, with their
son as well. I believe Nick lived in the guest
house of that home. And they were stabbed to death.
And the main suspect is the son, Nick Reiner. It's
(11:43):
a horrible story. And this just coming in from TMZ.
Billy Crystal saw Rob and Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner's
slain bodies. Billy Crystal and his wife Janice saw the
slain bodies of Rob Reiner's wife Michelle, because TMZ has
learned that they arrived at the scene in a flash
after a family member called them about the horrific discovery.
(12:07):
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ. Rob and Michelle's daughter Rommy,
called Crystal and his wife not long after she called
police to report finding her parents brutally murdered inside the
Brentwood home yesterday. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ that
(12:29):
Billy and Billy Crystal and his wife raced over to
the house and were there so quickly. One source tells
us the couple actually saw the slain friends and wanted
to say their goodbyes. As you know, Rob and Michelle
were found Sunday afternoon. Their son, Nick was located and
arrested on suspicion of murder about six hours later. So
(12:51):
that is going to live with them forever. And that's
another horrible angle to that story. Here's another story coming
out of this was on Saturday, Rob Reiner's drug addicted son, Nick,
hacked the beloved director and mom Michelle to death, but
(13:13):
the trio was at a party. Was at Conan O'Brien's
Christmas party on Saturday night, where the two freaked out
everyone and left Ryner terrified of what would come next.
So the trio reportedly ended up in a really loud
argument at Conan O'Brien's party, possibly because Nick was back
(13:38):
on drugs and refusing yet another go at treatment after
at least seventeen stints in rehab since the age of fifteen.
Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy and kept asking
people if they were famous. So that's kind of an
odd move at a party, going around and asking everybody, Hey,
(14:01):
are you famous? And I imagine Rob and Michelle totally
embarrassed by that, probably blew up on him. The embarrassingly
bitter blow up or blowout occurred within the last twenty
four hours. Nick allegedly fatally slit the parents throats less
than twenty four hours later. Quote, they had an argument
(14:25):
at Conan's holiday party, and Rob had been telling people
that they're scared for Nick and scared that his mental
state was deteriorating.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's according to a lifelong friend.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Nick was supposedly off drugs, but then talk surface that
he was quote not so much off them close.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Quote according to a neighbor.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And so the argument happened at Conan O'Brien's house, and
that probably was the end for Rob and Michelle. They
were probably at their wits end seventeen stints in rehab.
Conan O'Brien kind enough to open up the invitation to
(15:12):
his party for his friends and their children. But at
thirty six, you're not the child anymore. And Rob and
Michelle probably in retrospect, should not have even had Nick
at the party. But he came to the party. They
(15:32):
were always trying to repair things, always trying to help him.
Evidently he got too high and was walking around the
party asking people at conain and says, hey are you famous?
Are you famous? In probably sort of a derogatory way,
and that embarrassed a lot of celebrities there, are you
famous too?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Are you famous?
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Are you famous?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And Rob and Michelle probably heard that, pulled him aside,
said hey, you got to cut the crap, and that's
probably what Nick blew up, and then less than twenty
four hours killed both of them.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Allegedly.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
All right, we'll come back. We're gonna take an earlier break.
Here we come back. We will play the Howard Stern
interview Rob Reiner and Nick Reiner.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's really good. It's really good. You're gonna want to
hear that.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We continue to remember Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle
Reiner brutally murdered last night in their beautiful decorated home.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Beautiful beautiful home.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Man, if you've seen some of the aerial shots of
that home during the day at now, you can't really
get a feel for how big it is and how
beautiful it is. But when the sun came up this
morning and there were helicopters over it and there are
aerial views, it.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Is a spectacular home. It is just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And according to a lot of stories, there was a
lot of turmoil in that house. Their thirty six year
old son, Nick, still living at home, still going to
Christmas parties with mom and dad, which is odd at
thirty six. You know, thirty six, you got your own life.
(17:17):
Mom and dad invites you to Christmas party and you
probably politely turned them down. But here's Rob Reiner with
Nick on The Stern Show, and this is pretty good too.
This is a real sort of inside look at the
relationship that the two of them had.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Was this difficult for you to see that your son
has written a script basically calling you out? No, it
was easy, right back to the psychiatry.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
You know, it's funny because you know, I helped develop
it with him and his writing partner, Mattelosophat, And the
first draft was like one hundred and ninety pages, and
the father was a complete I mean, it wasn't just
a minor and I at the time Nick, you know,
has told me since then he says, you know, that
(18:04):
wasn't all me.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Matt was also saying.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
His father told you exactly, and that you had to
have a real antagonist. And I even knowing certain feelings
that Nick had had for me at times, I as
a director saying, you know, it's not interesting and have
one dimensional character.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
But yeah, you want a guy you can also the
audience can love stand and it should be three dimensional.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And then as that's probably what why Rob got involved.
You know, it's one hundred and ninety pages of he's
a complete a hole and he probably said, oh, let me,
let me try to flatten this out and smooth it
out just a little, because this is grim. This is
a grim look at at what's going on in this house.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What's my bottle of white out? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
As Nick worked on it with Matt and we kept
you know, this is over a period of a year.
At one point Nick says to me, he comes up.
He says, the father's too much of it, right, we gotta,
you know, find other And then we didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We just kept him.
Speaker 12 (19:03):
But in the way, do you.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
Think you started to see the father not so much
as because in real life you were working with your
father and now all of a sudden you fell closer
to him.
Speaker 13 (19:11):
Well, I did think he was coul and then and
he probably thought I was one two and then we
started working on this probably think.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You're really one a much higher level a hole than
two days ago.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
And I think what was the biggest complaint about your
dad in terms of even the script?
Speaker 13 (19:29):
I was a little I just complained about everything everything.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
But was he not there enough for you in your opinion?
Speaker 12 (19:34):
Was there?
Speaker 13 (19:35):
I mean should.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Right, right, But but seriously, what was the breakthrough for
you that I assume you're off drugs now or right?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It has it?
Speaker 11 (19:47):
Do you still have the temptation or do you feel
like you got the thing licked.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
I don't got it licked by any means, But you know,
there was no like one day type of thing.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
It was a very and I'm still very young, so
who knows what.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Will happen in five years.
Speaker 13 (20:00):
But I mean after a really long time of just
you know, relapsing, going to a place, it just got
really old of kind of doing that and that revolving door.
And at a certain point I was just like, I can't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Live like this anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Man, is that eerie to hear, you know, I mean,
that's the guy allegedly who slaughtered his parents, and to
hear him being interviewed with his son is just so
creepy and odd in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's just it's horrible.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I mean, this kid went through seventeen rehabs, seventeen different facilities.
Maybe you know he doubled up on some, but seventeen
times leaving the house, going to rehab, trying to figure
out what's wrong, coming back sober for you know, two
three four months, two years, three years, whatever, and then
right back into it has got to just be the
(20:54):
most depressing thing in the world for Rob and Michelle Reiner.
Speaker 14 (20:58):
I think always heard that his first rehab was at
fifteen and he's thirty two, so it's literally one a
year on average.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I thought he was thirty six, thirty sixty. Yeah, but
that is a it's a lot. That's almost are yeah, yeah, yeah,
and probably doubled up in some years, you know, two
or three rehabs in a year and nothing seemed to work.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Rob, were you in a weird place when your son
brings you a script idea? Do you almost have to
do it because you know he's been through the mill,
Like do you could you have said no to him
and say this is not good.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
No, it's interesting you bring that up because I had
no idea that he was working on initially was a
half hour comedy with matt Elisoffen, and I didn't know
they were even working on it. And when they finished it,
he gave it to me just to look at, not
to do anything, and I read it and I said,
you know, it could be this could be deeper. I mean,
(21:51):
there's not a there's no emotional hook here. You went
through all these terrible things. It's not reflected in that.
And he went back and wrote an hour comedy drama.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I was not sure you.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Didn't get angry with you for being critical. Let's say
you didn't see your father's critical is being helpful?
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (22:07):
Completely, I didn't. And I didn't go to him being
like will you direct this? Like I was just like,
what do you think of this? And and the first
thing I ever wrought, he was like, eh, you know what.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
Happens if you get on set, though, and your son
is not acting in the way that you think he
should be, not a good.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Well, well well he he was with me on the
set the whole time, and at times we got into fights.
At times it was it was tough, But what I.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Bring you closer together?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Yes, it brought us closer together. And I also learned
to listen to him, to listen to him more because
he understood this much better than I did. And I
told him many many times when were making the film,
You're the heart. I told him, you're the heart and
soul of this film, and I'm gonna you know, you're
going to be What's what's right about this? And I
(22:57):
also said to him, regardless of whatever happens, I mean,
we're lucky. It's going to be in a theater, you know, Friday,
May sixth, that you know. And I said, even if
this never gets released, even if there's nothing ever happens,
we've already won because what we've gone through and what
it has done for us has been great.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Bow show Man is that tough to listen to? And
then that whole thing blows up. At Conan O'Brien's party,
He's walking around evidently high asking everybody are you famous?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Are you famous?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
That irritates Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. They get
into a heated argument to the point where they are
so embarrassed by their son they leave. And I imagine
they probably drove together. You know, when you go to
a holiday party, you drive together as a family to
you know, save the host another valet charge, and there's
(23:51):
probably limited parking on Conan O'Brien's street, so you drive together.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
But how about that drive home.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You know, you're leaving con O'Brien's holiday party, embarrassed that
your thirty six year old son can't behave at a party,
and quiet ride home, quiet ride home, and then less
than twenty four hours later, allegedly slaughters his mom and
(24:18):
dad in the house, and the youngest daughter of Rob
and Michelle Reiner find the mom and dad after they
were brutally murdered. And when you slit somebody's throat, which
that has come out in the press, then there is
(24:38):
blood everywhere everywhere in this heated, horrible physical fight that
they got in. And when you slit the throat of somebody,
tremendous white heat of anger is just come over you.
And I can't imagine that those that the other two kids,
(25:02):
Jake and Ronnie, will ever want to step in that
house again. And then they got to sell that house,
and then that is confusing to people. It's a real
big turn off to buy a house that is that infamous.
And you know that a very popular writer, director and
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his wife were killed in that house. Oh, it's just
there are so many levels of just horrible awfulness that
is associated with this story.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
And he is thirty two, by the way, So he's
thirty two on average every year since fifteen.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And nothing worked, nothing worked, And when you die at
the hands of your son, it is the worst way
to go, the worst way to go.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh, it's just.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And I imagine he probably went to kill Rob and
Michelle Hurd it came in, tried to save Rob's life
and then she got killed as well. That's probably how
that happened. Oh my god. All right, we have got
some talkbacks here, We've got some more information with Rob Reiner.
A horrible, horrible day in Hollywood, and again right before
(26:13):
the holidays makes it even worse.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
We have the latest update here with the arrest of
Nick Reiner over the brutal murder of Rob and Michelle
Reiner and This is Alex Stone. This is less than
about nineteen minutes ago. So let's listen to this and
find out there's any more information from Alex Stone with
(26:45):
ABC News.
Speaker 15 (26:46):
Investigators are putting together their case tonight. We understand tomorrow
they are going to present that case to the DA
for decision on filing of charges. It will be up
to the DA on what charges are actually filed. That
will happen tomorrow they will be presenting Nick Reiner is
now being held on no bail of the Twin Towers
Jail tonight. He today was moved after his arrest overnight
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and his booking early this morning. Sources tell us he
was found last night allegedly took off after the murders.
He was founded around nine to forty five last night
in the area over by USC and that he was
not hard to find, and then he was arrested. I'm
told it was Robin Michelle Reiner's daughter who found her
mom and dad dead after arriving here to check on them. Today,
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LAPD Chief Jim McDonald addressing the arrest the night.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Working with the Coroner's office, they were able to identify
them definitively as Rob and Michelle Reiner. We have our
Robbery Homicide Division handling the investigation. They work throughout the
night on this case and were able to take into
custody Nick Nick Reiner, a suspect in this case. He
(27:53):
was subsequently booked for murder.
Speaker 15 (27:55):
Now tonight, investigators won't say where in the home the
bodies were found, or in the stabbings actually occurred in
how long before they were found. Investigators say that is
part of the case that they will present to the
DA tomorrow. They want to present it to the DA
before it is known publicly. Work is underway to understand
what led up to the killings and the family dynamics.
We're told there is more work they need to do,
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but LAPD investigators will be working late tonight getting their
case together and back here on scene. Nobody has been
going in and out of the home today. There was
one former security guard who came by. He left flowers
and some candles and then he moved on.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Guys, Alex and you've been there all day. What are
neighbors saying about the Rhiners.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Neighbors are in chock.
Speaker 15 (28:39):
They have been coming by all day, many walking their dogs,
just wanting to look and pay their respects.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Some have wanted to talk about what.
Speaker 15 (28:47):
Great neighbors the Rhiners were that they say that they
often held parties. This was a house clearly of love
and a joyous house in the sense that it is
decorated for the holidays.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Right now.
Speaker 15 (28:59):
There are ornaments up in the tree above the gate.
There are reefs on the gate here. There are Christmas
lights that are not on tonight, and the house is
dark tonight. As the LAPD continues, it's investigation.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
That's gonna be some decision on what to do with
that house, because everyone will always remember that house for
decades where Rob and Michelle Reiner lost their lives. Oh
that's got to be the worst, absolute worst. All right,
we do some talkbacks here. Let me go ahead and
play them for you. Here's one from my sounds like
(29:35):
a truck driver here, you know Tim, or a guy
who's very close to an air conditioner here, you know Tim.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Sometimes with people are going drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
And stuff like that, they'll have so much inside they
about it, they'll blak out. When they break out, I
think evil entities take.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Over and make them do things. I'm pretty sure to
get happenings.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, that sound like a truck.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
When I was a kid, man, all I did was
listen to your dad. I love your dad's shows as
one of the funniest man in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
To me, very sweet man.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
The sun seems to have taken after him a little.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Dig pretty funny yourself, Jill, Hey man, you want to
think about it, like, heyy.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Once in a while doing a stand up or something. Man,
all right, get some pointers out from jeling there and
just do it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Di do digt along with you.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Hey, Belly, I'll see if you can tackle that. Write
me up twenty minutes of stand up. I'll take care,
I'll do it, but you gotta write it.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Oh, then it's not going to be funny. That's not true.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You call yourself the Carol burn Out of radio. I don't, yeah,
shut up?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Closure all right? Is Wagner Lyle Wagner of Star Wagons.
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Here's another talkback from a guy I think went to
school with Carl Reiner.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
My mother went to high school with Carl Reiner.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Robs Jesus three D HOUTSI of capital pauses. You could
almost sell commercial time during the pause.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
My mother went to high school.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Sweet James eight hundred nine million with advanced hairpla.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Carl Reiner, Rob's father at Evander Child's eight for four
three three three hair High School in the Bronx in
New York.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Brongo good time.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
This would have been in about nineteen thirty five. Co
Birmingham Braves Prize picks.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
It's good to be right, Jim three d OUTSI of
Radical pauses with this guy.
Speaker 12 (32:00):
Probably about twelve years ago. I worked for a plumbing
company and did some work for the Rhiners. I met
Rob one time. It was a Super Bowl Sunday when
the Falcons are playing somebody an't remember who.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
It was, but well they were playing the New England Patriots.
Speaker 12 (32:16):
I think word thing the Falcons are playing somebody alnor
remember who it was. But he's a really nice guy.
First thing, he said, hey, I'm wrong, but like all right.
He was a good guy sort two days gone.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, A very very sweet man, Rob Ryan.
Speaker 16 (32:32):
If I had to pick one thing that I love
what you do is when you tell those heartfelt stories
of when you grew up and the families that you
knew and the connections that you had, and you just
did such a beautiful job talking about your family and
the Rhiner family.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I really loved it.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Thank you so much for sharing it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well, she's a very sweet woman. She's right too. Appreciate
it was.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It's very, very difficult. My family was when we were kids,
very close to that family, and my dad had very
limited show biz friends. My dad always found it more
interesting to be friends with, you know, the lighting guy
or this set guy, the associate producer. My dad didn't
(33:19):
really have any showbiz friends. You know, in the first
twenty or thirty years, very rarely would my dad go
to a holiday or a Hollywood party because he couldn't.
He didn't know how to get out of conversations with people.
If my dad showed it up at a party and
he was, there was a valet parking there, and the
valet parker said, hey, I really like McHale's navy and
(33:42):
my dad would talk to that guy for an hour
and then split. He didn't know how to get out
of conversations with people, so we had to learn, and
I think I taught him. And the way you get
out of a conversation at a party compliment and move,
compliment and move. It's it'll sound like this man, you
(34:05):
got some funny stuff there.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Man, you're the best you're the king man. Gone, compliment
and move. Ah, Man, that shirt looks great on you.
We're had a shirt like that. Man, that's really a
beautiful shit. Gone. Oh that car man, what a classic
is that?
Speaker 10 (34:20):
In nineteen fifty seven?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You got there?
Speaker 12 (34:22):
Man, that's just.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Compliment. Hit tap him on the back and move. Compliment
and move. That's how you get out of conversations. We're
live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
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It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We are remembering Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner who last
night were brutally murdered. And the main suspect is their
son Nick, their middle son. I think he's the middle son.
Is the older son, Jake, I think the I can't.
I don't remember if the older son is Jake or
the middle son is Jake.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I think Jake's the oldest. Jake is the oldest.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Jake is a terrific reporter again, and I think he
was in Chicago and then he went to Arizona in Phoenix,
and then he worked for CBS for some time and
just a great kid. And now him and his daughter,
I mean, his sister, romy are the only two left
(00:52):
in that family. And this happened I believe wasn't yesterday,
the first day of Hanukkah. Maybe wrong with them, but
I think we're very close to the first day of Honkah,
and it was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's a weird, horrible, awful time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's never a good time for this, but right before
the holidays, right before Hanukkah. I know his both of
his parents were, at least back then when we knew them,
when I knew them more on a regular basis, very
religious and very supportive, and love to decorate their house
(01:34):
and celebrate. I think they celebrated both Hanka and Christmas
by just a beautiful home and a great life, and
all of it destroyed by allegedly by this kid. Look,
if you're in show business, you're an actor, actress, director, writer, performer.
If you have a daughter, lottery, you have won the lottery.
(01:56):
If you have a son, man some time, it's tough.
It is really tough on these sons. I don't know
what it is, but it's always always tougher on the
sons than it is on the daughters.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I don't know why that is.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Like I know, George Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin, beautiful, fond,
great memories, funny memories of her dad and just couldn't
be nicer and funnier and just a great sort of
tribute to how she was raised. And she wrote a
(02:38):
terrific funny book and just a really sweet person. And
most daughters of celebrities are exactly like that. You know
Carol Burnett's kids, Aaron, Jody, Carrie, who is no longer
with us. The sweetest girls in the world, just brilliant
(02:58):
and funny and you know, very supportive of their parents,
never show any signs of anxiety or craziness. But man,
you look at some of the sons of these celebrities,
some of them are really off their rockers. Really all right,
we're still editing the Howards. During an interview, we found
(03:20):
a couple of f words still in there, So we
are waiting because we don't want to get fined.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And that's unusual thrown off the air. Yeah, it is,
it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Rob Reiner's son talked to Sam Rubin about his struggles
and so we can listen to that audio while we're
editing the Howard Stern audio.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Your son has been very open with the demons that
he's faced, and you've talked about this, and you talked
about it very eloquently with Howard that drug abuse and
other things people like to keep family secret secrets. In
the course of this, did you make a determination, Hey,
you know what, Nick, We're gonna make this movie, but
we're going to talk about what.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You went through.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Well, that is the basis of the movie. I mean,
one of the biggest problems I have with AA is
the second A, which is the anonymous part. And to me,
people who are struggling with substance abuse, whether it's alcohol, drugs,
whether it's you know, sex or gambling, whatever it is,
they're in pain. They're using these you know, drugs or
(04:19):
alcohol as a way of self medicating. They have problems,
they have emotional problems, and so to me, you have
to destigmatize things you distigmatize by talking about it and
saying we're not alone. I mean, I guarantee you there's
somebody in everybody's either family or sphere, or best or
a good friend that is struggling with different issues.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I have eating issues.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Everybody has something, and so to be able to talk
about it openly I think is positive and I think
ultimately it turns about, you know, Republicans and Democrats, whis
the one issue we're all in agreement on that we
have to approach this thing not as punitive, not punishing people,
but help.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Very well said you know, a friend of mine said
to me. He said, if you take all your family problems,
you know, the craziness, and your brothers, sisters, aunt, uncles, mom, dad,
and you take all your family problems and you put
them out on the curb. You write them on a chalkboard,
and you put them on a curb so everyone in
the neighborhood can read them and experience them. And then
(05:23):
you walk around the neighborhood and all your neighbors do
the same thing. They write all their problems down on
a chalkboard. You go around your neighborhood and read.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
All of them.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You would run back to your house and run inside
and lock the door because you have no idea what's
lurking behind those doors of even your neighbors and even
some of your good friends. You know, you might have
a best friend for thirty years that have no idea
that their son or daughter is not well.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And it's really tough.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's really tough on people to talk about stuff like
that as well, especially if you come from an Irish
Catholic family like I do, where nobody ever talks about
anything ever.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
All right, let's talk about the details in the arrest
here of their son, Nick Reiner.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Following the brutal double murder of director and actor Rob
Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer happening right now. Confirmation
that the couple's son he is behind bars in an
LA County jail.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He is the suspect in this case.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Just in the last hour, officials in LA gave an
update on their investigation.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Here's what they had to say. Thank you, Kevian Bland.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
As he said, the information at this stage is still limited,
but I'll share what we can. First of all, our
hearts go out to the family and friends of the
Reiners tragic incident. Yesterday, at twelfth, December fourteenth, about three
point forty in the afternoon, LAPD responded to a residence
(06:51):
the residents of Rob and Michelle Reiner, located in West
Los Angeles Division. At that location, they found two deceased adults,
a male and a female. Through the night, working with
the Coroner's office, they were able to identify them definitively
as Rob and Michelle Reiner. We have our Robbery Homicide
Division handling the investigation. They work throughout the night on
(07:15):
this case and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner,
a suspect in this case. He was subsequently booked for
murder and is being held on four million dollar bail.
Pretty much that's what I can share at this point,
but again, a very very tragic incident. Yeah, you know,
(07:37):
we use search warrants to be able to further our investigation.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
As you know on all of these cases.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I wouldn't be in a position to talk specifically about
what the object of the search warrant was, but it's
a critical pie of our investigations to be able to
ensure down the road to prosecution.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know, it was odd last night I was listening
to Alan Hamilton, he is the chief of detectives at
l and they said they were waiting for a search
warrant to be signed so they can go in the
house and search it. And I thought that is so
odd that that. I thought in the past, if there's
a murder, that the cops can go in and look
(08:14):
at anything and talk to anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I thought that was strange.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Like if there was a murder, you know, at a
I don't know, at a fast food place, I don't
think they'd wait for a search warrant. They'd go in
and do the investigation. So there must be something. Must
have been something else. Maybe they wanted to let you
know through the press, maybe not let on that they
were looking for Nick Reiner and they didn't want him
(08:39):
to do something stupid or harm himself. That's the only
reason I could come up with why they didn't why
they were saying they were waiting for a search warrant.
All right, here's more of what the details on Nick
Reiner's arrest.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All right, that from LAPD.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Let's go deeper, bringing in CBS new Senior Coordinating Producer
for the Crime of Public Safety Unit, Anna Scheckter.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Anna, what a track here? What else do we know?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Okay, what else do we know? We come back, We'll
play this audio for you here. It is a very
very gloomy, sad day in show business. Thousands of people
have either worked or knew Rob Reiner, or lived near
him or related to him in this city, in this business,
and it's a very sad, deep dark time for show business.
(09:27):
If you have worked with the Hiners, or you knew
the Rhiners in any way, maybe you worked on a movie,
maybe they came to your restaurant, whatever, and you just
want to be able to talk about Rob Reiner or
Michelle Reiner and your alone in your house or in
your car, and you desperately want to tell somebody you
(09:49):
know how great the family was or something you knew
about the family. Call us here, we'll put you on
the air. One eight hundred and five to two oho
one five three four. This is a very powerful radio
station in the heart of show business, and there are
hundreds of people listening right now who either knew or
worked with the Reiners and maybe have an interesting story
(10:14):
to tell us. One eight hundred five two oh one
five three four. You can also do the talk back
on the website as well. Just go to KFI AM
six forty dot com and you'll see the little red
microphone there. You can hit that and speak into your
phone or your watch, whatever, and they'll play some of
those on the air. But if you knew the family
(10:36):
and or had any run in with the family, you know,
in a in the last twenty thirty forty fifty years,
I know there's a lot of people listening to KFI
who knew this family, and you may just want you
may want to share a story about the Hiners. One
eight hundred five two oh one five three four. It's
Convoys show. We're remembering the Rhiners, Rob and Michelle, tiful
(11:00):
people who have left us way too early, and the
son Nick is the main suspect, and it's.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
A horrible story, right before the holidays.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's one of the worst stories in show business, in
the history of show business.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
But we're remembering Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Reiner.
They were killed last night in their mansion, this beautiful, beautiful,
huge home that they lived in, I believe, with their
son as well. I believe Nick lived in the guest
house of that home. And they were stabbed to death.
And the main suspect is the son, Nick Reiner. It's
(11:43):
a horrible story. And this just coming in from TMZ.
Billy Crystal saw Rob and Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner's
slain bodies. Billy Crystal and his wife Janice saw the
slain bodies of Rob Reiner's wife Michelle, because TMZ has
learned that they arrived at the scene in a flash
after a family member called them about the horrific discovery.
(12:07):
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ. Rob and Michelle's daughter Rommy,
called Crystal and his wife not long after she called
police to report finding her parents brutally murdered inside the
Brentwood home yesterday. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ that
(12:29):
Billy and Billy Crystal and his wife raced over to
the house and were there so quickly. One source tells
us the couple actually saw the slain friends and wanted
to say their goodbyes. As you know, Rob and Michelle
were found Sunday afternoon. Their son, Nick was located and
arrested on suspicion of murder about six hours later. So
(12:51):
that is going to live with them forever. And that's
another horrible angle to that story. Here's another story coming
out of this was on Saturday, Rob Reiner's drug addicted son, Nick,
hacked the beloved director and mom Michelle to death, but
(13:13):
the trio was at a party. Was at Conan O'Brien's
Christmas party on Saturday night, where the two freaked out
everyone and left Ryner terrified of what would come next.
So the trio reportedly ended up in a really loud
argument at Conan O'Brien's party, possibly because Nick was back
(13:38):
on drugs and refusing yet another go at treatment after
at least seventeen stints in rehab since the age of fifteen.
Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy and kept asking
people if they were famous. So that's kind of an
odd move at a party, going around and asking everybody, Hey,
(14:01):
are you famous? And I imagine Rob and Michelle totally
embarrassed by that, probably blew up on him. The embarrassingly
bitter blow up or blowout occurred within the last twenty
four hours. Nick allegedly fatally slit the parents throats less
than twenty four hours later. Quote, they had an argument
(14:25):
at Conan's holiday party, and Rob had been telling people
that they're scared for Nick and scared that his mental
state was deteriorating.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's according to a lifelong friend.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Nick was supposedly off drugs, but then talk surface that
he was quote not so much off them close.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Quote according to a neighbor.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And so the argument happened at Conan O'Brien's house, and
that probably was the end for Rob and Michelle. They
were probably at their wits end seventeen stints in rehab.
Conan O'Brien kind enough to open up the invitation to
(15:12):
his party for his friends and their children. But at
thirty six, you're not the child anymore. And Rob and
Michelle probably in retrospect, should not have even had Nick
at the party. But he came to the party. They
(15:32):
were always trying to repair things, always trying to help him.
Evidently he got too high and was walking around the
party asking people at conain and says, hey are you famous?
Are you famous? In probably sort of a derogatory way,
and that embarrassed a lot of celebrities there, are you
famous too?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Are you famous?
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Are you famous?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And Rob and Michelle probably heard that, pulled him aside,
said hey, you got to cut the crap, and that's
probably what Nick blew up, and then less than twenty
four hours killed both of them.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Allegedly.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
All right, we'll come back. We're gonna take an earlier break.
Here we come back. We will play the Howard Stern
interview Rob Reiner and Nick Reiner.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's really good. It's really good. You're gonna want to
hear that.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We continue to remember Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle
Reiner brutally murdered last night in their beautiful decorated home.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Beautiful beautiful home.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Man, if you've seen some of the aerial shots of
that home during the day at now, you can't really
get a feel for how big it is and how
beautiful it is. But when the sun came up this
morning and there were helicopters over it and there are
aerial views, it.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Is a spectacular home. It is just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And according to a lot of stories, there was a
lot of turmoil in that house. Their thirty six year
old son, Nick, still living at home, still going to
Christmas parties with mom and dad, which is odd at
thirty six. You know, thirty six, you got your own life.
(17:17):
Mom and dad invites you to Christmas party and you
probably politely turned them down. But here's Rob Reiner with
Nick on The Stern Show, and this is pretty good too.
This is a real sort of inside look at the
relationship that the two of them had.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Was this difficult for you to see that your son
has written a script basically calling you out? No, it
was easy, right back to the psychiatry.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
You know, it's funny because you know, I helped develop
it with him and his writing partner, Mattelosophat, And the
first draft was like one hundred and ninety pages, and
the father was a complete I mean, it wasn't just
a minor and I at the time Nick, you know,
has told me since then he says, you know, that
(18:04):
wasn't all me.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Matt was also saying.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
His father told you exactly, and that you had to
have a real antagonist. And I even knowing certain feelings
that Nick had had for me at times, I as
a director saying, you know, it's not interesting and have
one dimensional character.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
But yeah, you want a guy you can also the
audience can love stand and it should be three dimensional.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And then as that's probably what why Rob got involved.
You know, it's one hundred and ninety pages of he's
a complete a hole and he probably said, oh, let me,
let me try to flatten this out and smooth it
out just a little, because this is grim. This is
a grim look at at what's going on in this house.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What's my bottle of white out? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
As Nick worked on it with Matt and we kept
you know, this is over a period of a year.
At one point Nick says to me, he comes up.
He says, the father's too much of it, right, we gotta,
you know, find other And then we didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We just kept him.
Speaker 12 (19:03):
But in the way, do you.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
Think you started to see the father not so much
as because in real life you were working with your
father and now all of a sudden you fell closer
to him.
Speaker 13 (19:11):
Well, I did think he was coul and then and
he probably thought I was one two and then we
started working on this probably think.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You're really one a much higher level a hole than
two days ago.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
And I think what was the biggest complaint about your
dad in terms of even the script?
Speaker 13 (19:29):
I was a little I just complained about everything everything.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
But was he not there enough for you in your opinion?
Speaker 12 (19:34):
Was there?
Speaker 13 (19:35):
I mean should.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Right, right, But but seriously, what was the breakthrough for
you that I assume you're off drugs now or right?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It has it?
Speaker 11 (19:47):
Do you still have the temptation or do you feel
like you got the thing licked.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
I don't got it licked by any means, But you know,
there was no like one day type of thing.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
It was a very and I'm still very young, so
who knows what.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Will happen in five years.
Speaker 13 (20:00):
But I mean after a really long time of just
you know, relapsing, going to a place, it just got
really old of kind of doing that and that revolving door.
And at a certain point I was just like, I can't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Live like this anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Man, is that eerie to hear, you know, I mean,
that's the guy allegedly who slaughtered his parents, and to
hear him being interviewed with his son is just so
creepy and odd in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's just it's horrible.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I mean, this kid went through seventeen rehabs, seventeen different facilities.
Maybe you know he doubled up on some, but seventeen
times leaving the house, going to rehab, trying to figure
out what's wrong, coming back sober for you know, two
three four months, two years, three years, whatever, and then
right back into it has got to just be the
(20:54):
most depressing thing in the world for Rob and Michelle Reiner.
Speaker 14 (20:58):
I think always heard that his first rehab was at
fifteen and he's thirty two, so it's literally one a
year on average.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I thought he was thirty six, thirty sixty. Yeah, but
that is a it's a lot. That's almost are yeah, yeah, yeah,
and probably doubled up in some years, you know, two
or three rehabs in a year and nothing seemed to work.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Rob, were you in a weird place when your son
brings you a script idea? Do you almost have to
do it because you know he's been through the mill,
Like do you could you have said no to him
and say this is not good.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
No, it's interesting you bring that up because I had
no idea that he was working on initially was a
half hour comedy with matt Elisoffen, and I didn't know
they were even working on it. And when they finished it,
he gave it to me just to look at, not
to do anything, and I read it and I said,
you know, it could be this could be deeper. I mean,
(21:51):
there's not a there's no emotional hook here. You went
through all these terrible things. It's not reflected in that.
And he went back and wrote an hour comedy drama.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I was not sure you.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Didn't get angry with you for being critical. Let's say
you didn't see your father's critical is being helpful?
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (22:07):
Completely, I didn't. And I didn't go to him being
like will you direct this? Like I was just like,
what do you think of this? And and the first
thing I ever wrought, he was like, eh, you know what.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
Happens if you get on set, though, and your son
is not acting in the way that you think he
should be, not a good.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Well, well well he he was with me on the
set the whole time, and at times we got into fights.
At times it was it was tough, But what I.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Bring you closer together?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Yes, it brought us closer together. And I also learned
to listen to him, to listen to him more because
he understood this much better than I did. And I
told him many many times when were making the film,
You're the heart. I told him, you're the heart and
soul of this film, and I'm gonna you know, you're
going to be What's what's right about this? And I
(22:57):
also said to him, regardless of whatever happens, I mean,
we're lucky. It's going to be in a theater, you know, Friday,
May sixth, that you know. And I said, even if
this never gets released, even if there's nothing ever happens,
we've already won because what we've gone through and what
it has done for us has been great.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Bow show Man is that tough to listen to? And
then that whole thing blows up. At Conan O'Brien's party,
He's walking around evidently high asking everybody are you famous?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Are you famous?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
That irritates Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. They get
into a heated argument to the point where they are
so embarrassed by their son they leave. And I imagine
they probably drove together. You know, when you go to
a holiday party, you drive together as a family to
you know, save the host another valet charge, and there's
(23:51):
probably limited parking on Conan O'Brien's street, so you drive together.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
But how about that drive home.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You know, you're leaving con O'Brien's holiday party, embarrassed that
your thirty six year old son can't behave at a party,
and quiet ride home, quiet ride home, and then less
than twenty four hours later, allegedly slaughters his mom and
(24:18):
dad in the house, and the youngest daughter of Rob
and Michelle Reiner find the mom and dad after they
were brutally murdered. And when you slit somebody's throat, which
that has come out in the press, then there is
(24:38):
blood everywhere everywhere in this heated, horrible physical fight that
they got in. And when you slit the throat of somebody,
tremendous white heat of anger is just come over you.
And I can't imagine that those that the other two kids,
(25:02):
Jake and Ronnie, will ever want to step in that
house again. And then they got to sell that house,
and then that is confusing to people. It's a real
big turn off to buy a house that is that infamous.
And you know that a very popular writer, director and
(25:22):
his wife were killed in that house. Oh, it's just
there are so many levels of just horrible awfulness that
is associated with this story.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
And he is thirty two, by the way, So he's
thirty two on average every year since fifteen.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And nothing worked, nothing worked, And when you die at
the hands of your son, it is the worst way
to go, the worst way to go.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh, it's just.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And I imagine he probably went to kill Rob and
Michelle Hurd it came in, tried to save Rob's life
and then she got killed as well. That's probably how
that happened. Oh my god. All right, we have got
some talkbacks here, We've got some more information with Rob Reiner.
A horrible, horrible day in Hollywood, and again right before
(26:13):
the holidays makes it even worse.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
We have the latest update here with the arrest of
Nick Reiner over the brutal murder of Rob and Michelle
Reiner and This is Alex Stone. This is less than
about nineteen minutes ago. So let's listen to this and
find out there's any more information from Alex Stone with
(26:45):
ABC News.
Speaker 15 (26:46):
Investigators are putting together their case tonight. We understand tomorrow
they are going to present that case to the DA
for decision on filing of charges. It will be up
to the DA on what charges are actually filed. That
will happen tomorrow they will be presenting Nick Reiner is
now being held on no bail of the Twin Towers
Jail tonight. He today was moved after his arrest overnight
(27:08):
and his booking early this morning. Sources tell us he
was found last night allegedly took off after the murders.
He was founded around nine to forty five last night
in the area over by USC and that he was
not hard to find, and then he was arrested. I'm
told it was Robin Michelle Reiner's daughter who found her
mom and dad dead after arriving here to check on them. Today,
(27:28):
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald addressing the arrest the night.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Working with the Coroner's office, they were able to identify
them definitively as Rob and Michelle Reiner. We have our
Robbery Homicide Division handling the investigation. They work throughout the
night on this case and were able to take into
custody Nick Nick Reiner, a suspect in this case. He
(27:53):
was subsequently booked for murder.
Speaker 15 (27:55):
Now tonight, investigators won't say where in the home the
bodies were found, or in the stabbings actually occurred in
how long before they were found. Investigators say that is
part of the case that they will present to the
DA tomorrow. They want to present it to the DA
before it is known publicly. Work is underway to understand
what led up to the killings and the family dynamics.
We're told there is more work they need to do,
(28:17):
but LAPD investigators will be working late tonight getting their
case together and back here on scene. Nobody has been
going in and out of the home today. There was
one former security guard who came by. He left flowers
and some candles and then he moved on.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Guys, Alex and you've been there all day. What are
neighbors saying about the Rhiners.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Neighbors are in chock.
Speaker 15 (28:39):
They have been coming by all day, many walking their dogs,
just wanting to look and pay their respects.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Some have wanted to talk about what.
Speaker 15 (28:47):
Great neighbors the Rhiners were that they say that they
often held parties. This was a house clearly of love
and a joyous house in the sense that it is
decorated for the holidays.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Right now.
Speaker 15 (28:59):
There are ornaments up in the tree above the gate.
There are reefs on the gate here. There are Christmas
lights that are not on tonight, and the house is
dark tonight. As the LAPD continues, it's investigation.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
That's gonna be some decision on what to do with
that house, because everyone will always remember that house for
decades where Rob and Michelle Reiner lost their lives. Oh
that's got to be the worst, absolute worst. All right,
we do some talkbacks here. Let me go ahead and
play them for you. Here's one from my sounds like
(29:35):
a truck driver here, you know Tim, or a guy
who's very close to an air conditioner here, you know Tim.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Sometimes with people are going drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
And stuff like that, they'll have so much inside they
about it, they'll blak out. When they break out, I
think evil entities take.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Over and make them do things. I'm pretty sure to
get happenings.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, that sound like a truck.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
When I was a kid, man, all I did was
listen to your dad. I love your dad's shows as
one of the funniest man in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
To me, very sweet man.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
The sun seems to have taken after him a little.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Dig pretty funny yourself, Jill, Hey man, you want to
think about it, like, heyy.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Once in a while doing a stand up or something. Man,
all right, get some pointers out from jeling there and
just do it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Di do digt along with you.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Hey, Belly, I'll see if you can tackle that. Write
me up twenty minutes of stand up. I'll take care,
I'll do it, but you gotta write it.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Oh, then it's not going to be funny. That's not true.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You call yourself the Carol burn Out of radio. I don't, yeah,
shut up?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Closure all right? Is Wagner Lyle Wagner of Star Wagons.
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Here's another talkback from a guy I think went to
school with Carl Reiner.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
My mother went to high school with Carl Reiner.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Robs Jesus three D HOUTSI of capital pauses. You could
almost sell commercial time during the pause.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
My mother went to high school.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Sweet James eight hundred nine million with advanced hairpla.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Carl Reiner, Rob's father at Evander Child's eight for four
three three three hair High School in the Bronx in
New York.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Brongo good time.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
This would have been in about nineteen thirty five. Co
Birmingham Braves Prize picks.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
It's good to be right, Jim three d OUTSI of
Radical pauses with this guy.
Speaker 12 (32:00):
Probably about twelve years ago. I worked for a plumbing
company and did some work for the Rhiners. I met
Rob one time. It was a Super Bowl Sunday when
the Falcons are playing somebody an't remember who.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
It was, but well they were playing the New England Patriots.
Speaker 12 (32:16):
I think word thing the Falcons are playing somebody alnor
remember who it was. But he's a really nice guy.
First thing, he said, hey, I'm wrong, but like all right.
He was a good guy sort two days gone.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, A very very sweet man, Rob Ryan.
Speaker 16 (32:32):
If I had to pick one thing that I love
what you do is when you tell those heartfelt stories
of when you grew up and the families that you
knew and the connections that you had, and you just
did such a beautiful job talking about your family and
the Rhiner family.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I really loved it.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Thank you so much for sharing it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well, she's a very sweet woman. She's right too. Appreciate
it was.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It's very, very difficult. My family was when we were kids,
very close to that family, and my dad had very
limited show biz friends. My dad always found it more
interesting to be friends with, you know, the lighting guy
or this set guy, the associate producer. My dad didn't
(33:19):
really have any showbiz friends. You know, in the first
twenty or thirty years, very rarely would my dad go
to a holiday or a Hollywood party because he couldn't.
He didn't know how to get out of conversations with people.
If my dad showed it up at a party and
he was, there was a valet parking there, and the
valet parker said, hey, I really like McHale's navy and
(33:42):
my dad would talk to that guy for an hour
and then split. He didn't know how to get out
of conversations with people, so we had to learn, and
I think I taught him. And the way you get
out of a conversation at a party compliment and move,
compliment and move. It's it'll sound like this man, you
(34:05):
got some funny stuff there.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Man, you're the best you're the king man. Gone, compliment
and move. Ah, Man, that shirt looks great on you.
We're had a shirt like that. Man, that's really a
beautiful shit. Gone. Oh that car man, what a classic
is that?
Speaker 10 (34:20):
In nineteen fifty seven?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You got there?
Speaker 12 (34:22):
Man, that's just.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Compliment. Hit tap him on the back and move. Compliment
and move. That's how you get out of conversations. We're
live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
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