December 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Monks reports on Nick Reiner’s first court appearance since the murder of his parents. Reiner appeared in a suicide prevention of smock and shackles and waived his right to a speedy arraignment, as his attorney Alan Jackson requested a continuance until January 7. The report also covers reactions from those who knew the Reiner family, who said they did not believe Nick was violent, and notes broader discussion about cases involving children killing their parents. A statement released by Jake and Romy Reiner is referenced, along with details about the night of the murders, including why LAPD waited for a search warrant under California law. The segment also mentions the Reiner family’s significant wealth and includes local context from Christmas Eve weather in the San Fernando Valley.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. KIM sixty is
the Conway Show, and we are going to begin with
Michael Monks. You've got Monks every Saturday seven to nine pm.
And he's here with the latest on Rob Reiner, Michelle
(00:23):
Reiner and the entire story that has everybody reeling.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is just a terrible tragedy.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's horse and you could tell even from Nick Reiner's
attorney today that the strategy appears to be recognition of
the level of tragedy that everybody is feeling.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And we'll hear from him in a moment. Okay, but
didn't he also this is Alan Jackson. Yeah, didn't he
also say? And I don't know what it came from
him or it came from the coroner's office that the
two people, Michelle Reiner and Rob Reiner died of you know,
sharp blunt force, you know, obviously being stabbed, but they
were contributing circumstances that were vital to their death.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
And I don't know that that necessarily means directly. This
might be where he is planning the defense of what
was the relationship, like what was the mental state, like,
what was this this kid? What was this man's life
like that might have led up to this if that's
the path they're going down, if they're not going to
plead guilty outright, But.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Do you think they're going to bring in oh, we
had a heart condition, you know, she had diabetes, she
was on you know, blood thinners, the whole run.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's possible.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean, when you're an attorney defending someone whose life
is now on the line himself, you want to find
a way to keep them off of death row and
try to get the most lenient sentence possible. I mean
the sentence. The two possible sentences right now at this moment.
It's life without parole or the death penalty. So neither
of those are the sentences that you want. So what
(01:56):
can they work out here? Can they get some sort
of insane or that We'll learn about that later. But
what happened today was Nick Reiner did make an appearance
in courty, did have a suicide vest on. That might
be a flippant way of referring to whatever formal title
they give this article of clothing, but he was protected
from himself at this point, the appearance was brief, and
(02:19):
ultimately the arraignment where somebody might make a plea was
pushed back to January. After this brief hit. I think
just to say yes, when the judge was asking whether
he understood it, they're not that far. They didn't get
that far. That might happen in January, in early January,
so it's not far off. We'll be back talking about
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Nick Reiner's court processes. But the attorney, Alan Jackson, as
you noted, came out after this very brief hearing and
did talk to the media and if Fush has this sound,
here's part of what he said.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Are very very complex and serious issues that are associated
with this case.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
They need to be thoroughly but very carefully dealt with
and examined and looked at and analyzed. We asked that
during this process you allow the system to move forward
in the way that it was designed to move forward. No,
not with the rust of judgment, not with jumping to conclusions,
but with restraint and with dignity and with the respect
(03:24):
that this system and this process deserves and that the
family deserves.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So family.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He did hit the family a couple of times, to
talk about the enormity of the tragedy. So you could
tell by the tone of his voice that he was
using here and the language that he was using, that
he is not denying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The fact that this was a terrible, terrible event. But
what it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Seems like he is going to pursue is that there
were just a lot of circumstances in Nick Reiner's life
that led to this moment.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Should he be guilty of these crimes.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And how ironic that the money to pay Alan Jackson
will probably be coming from Rob and Michelle Reiner.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And I read a recent article that analyzed whether Nick
Reiner would be eligible to inherit any money because of
the state's layer law that you can't kill your parents
and then inherit you know the stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's what kept me clean. Just waited out, Yeah, you'll
get there eventually, but even I was. They interviewed a
single sell amoeba about twelve hundred miles off the Australian coast,
under about eight hundred feet of water and said do
you think Nick did it?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And they went yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
you did it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I think that you can find any amoba anywhere and
that that's going to be the conclusion. I mean, all
of the early reporting, his location, his behavior, what happened
at that party at Conan O'Brien's house. Why was he
checked into a hotel in Santa Monica, What was all
the blood that was found in that place? What was
he doing in the part of town.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Was in right?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And he was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Following this, But if you're a detective, right, there's gonna
be a pile of evidence that's pointing this. I think
that's why you're hearing let the judicial process play out.
You're going to learn more about Nick Reiner and all
of his struggles, because if it's clear that he did
the murders, what can they argue for his benefit to
keep him out of prison for that many years or
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to a better prison or off of death row.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Even if it gets to that point.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I was stunned by the kids. Rommy, the daughter of
Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, lives across the street from
Rob Rinder. That's gotta be a five or six million
dollar home. I mean, the Reiners have done well for
generations at this point. I mean, Rob Reiner is a
second generation Hollywood player. I don't doubt he has money.
But I think you know, a starter home is Kester
(05:48):
and Sherman way, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They're probably at that age where you know it's not
a starter home at this point, you know, I mean
they got a lot of money, and plus you know
the Carl Reiner's money.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You've got Rob Reiner's money. I mean, it's a lot
of money. My dad's money is at sant Anita. So
we all make choices, right, and then at the end
of you you answer for those. But and Sophia's money
is looking to go to the same direct.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Is that right? That's right? Now, you got to do better.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Look, she she'll get down with the ship, you know
if we if we do, if we hit the tries
and they you know, the super factas she'll go.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
She'll have a nice life. Your her inheritance is a
gamble at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah. Yeah, by so wait the kids put out states
they did.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, as you noted, Romy Reiner and Jake Reiner, the
siblings who were not part of the crime, who.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Put out the statement.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we
are experiencing every moment of the day, The horrific and
devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner is
something that no one should ever experience. They weren't just
our parents, they were our best friends. And they go
on to say that they are are very grateful for
all of the kindness that they have received. Not anything
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to say about their brother at this point.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Two questions for you. Next year, does Conan O'Brien have
a Christmas party? I would say no, it's tough. I
bet he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
A lot of the reporting seems sketchy about what happened there,
what arguments was involved with, what, what were the circumstances
under which the Rhiners left that party. So again, we
need to be careful with what we're consuming from the tabloids,
like let's let's this investigation. Will think about this.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
If this does go to trial and you're calling witnesses,
you can bet people from that party, Oh yeah, we'll
be one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Like Bill Hayter, one of the sweetest guys, one of
the funniest guys in the world, is now going to
be painted with this for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I mean, they have paparazzi outside of his.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Home yea, you know, shooting pictures of him and declaring
that he looks, you know, distraught in all of this,
and maybe he is because it's a horrible story in Hollywood.
But what was the nature, if anything, of a conversation
that he might have had with Nick Reiner.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's not entirely clear.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And TMC has done a lot of reporting on this,
and they broke a lot of the early elements that
prove to be true, but they've also been wrong on
some of their characterizations in the aftermath of it. So
we just need to be careful with that type of
media outlet.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You do because you're a journalist.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't you, on the other hand, gambling your daughter's
inheritance every minute of the day.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But I think also it's over for Bill Hayter uttering
these words at a party.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
This is a private conversation, and that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
That's what's being reported, is that maybe Nick Reiner was
trying to interrupt a conversation Bill Hater was having and
Bill Hayter shoot him away.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's a private conversation. Jill can't do that anymore at parties.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, you know, also that the Reiners got into an argument,
and then that has been downplayed or reported differently that
that's not what happened there. So I again, if this
goes to trial, you'll have some pretty famous people sitting
on the stand because knowing that that party preceded this horrible,
horrible event, it's very significant to the case.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean there were there were probably twenty A
listers at that party. You'll see on the stand.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Were you there? I was not? I was, I was.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I was told by Conan O'Brien. There are three lists,
the A list, the B list, and no list at all.
Thanks for coming in. Michael Monks Saturday, seven to nine pm.
He's got to get to the post office to send
his grandmother something for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, I got to get there by five o'clock. Good
for you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Don't tell anybody because I'm I'm supposed to be clocked
in until five o'clock. Okay, but I'm gonna leave.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Out with this. I'll clear olive for you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
If you're on olive, clear out all of the I'm
gonna be driving down all of the Monks is coming
all right, Thanks buddy, nice to see you.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
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Speaker 1 (09:38):
I got to warn you out there.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I drove in to work and it's hazy out there
and Sonny and so that's the worst combination you can
have for driving, especially if you're driving west, because son,
if it's clear, son is coming at you from one direction,
but when it's hazy and foggy like this, it's coming
from all directions. And that's why you get sunburn when
(10:02):
it's hazy outside, because the sun reflects off those little
tiny bits of fog and runs right into your ass.
So the sun comes from one direction when it's clear,
comes from a billion directions when it's foggy or hazy outside.
So please be careful out there. We don't want anyone
to get hurt. But if you do get an accident,
(10:23):
sweet jams called sweet jams.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
All right, let's I think we uh, I don't want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Okay, let's do another segment here, or at least an update.
This came in about an hour ago. More on the
where the bodies were found with the Rhiners. And everybody
is reading this story. They're reading everything they can, they're
listening to everything they can because it's such a shock
(10:54):
that this, you know, lovely couple Rob Reiner and his
beautiful wife Michelle, with three great two great kids, and
everybody wants all the information they can. I imagine TMZ's
website has just been blown up. All right, let's find
out more about the gruesome inside of the house after
(11:16):
the murders happened in bel Air.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
No new details about the crime itself or the case
being revealed in court today, But as you guys mentioned,
Nick Reiner was in front of a judge for the
very first time. He was stoic, he said, shackle there
in the courtroom. He didn't say an awful lot. He
let his attorney do the talking, both to the judge
getting that rayment pushed back to January, but also that
high powered lawyer coming outside to address the countless cameras
(11:41):
that have converged here, all to tell the public not to.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Rush to judgment.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Charged with the murder of his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner, today,
Nick Reiner in a Los Angeles courtroom behind a glass partition.
The judge asked as a defendant not be shown on camera.
Yiner Rory suicide prevention smock and shackles, quiet and calm,
speaking only briefly to the judge.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
City arrangements.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Twenty six, Reiner's attorney asking the judge to delay arraignment.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You ar if we could, I would like to ask
for a continuance of the arraignment that I wanted to take.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
This judge here is too early.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Reiner is charged with two counts of first degree murder
with special circumstances. He did not enter a pleat today.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now I could enter one for him if he'd like.
I could probably slide down there. What time is it
for twenty five? I could be there by five point fifteen.
I could enter one for him if if he really
needs one.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
These charges carry a maximum sentence.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
This is the district attorney of.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Life in prison, without the possibility without any parole, or
the death penalty.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Reiner is being represented by defense attorney Alan Jackson, who
famously defended Karen Reid, who is acquitted of murder.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Our hearts go out to the entire Rehiner family. There
are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated
with the case. They just need to be thoroughly but
very carefully dealt with.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
New video shows Ryan are inside a gas station and
his arrest nearby just hours after the murders. His parents'
bodies were discovered in their Brentwood home by his sister
on Sunday, and now the lapd revealing exactly where those
bodies were found.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Both victims were found in the master bedroom of the
area of the home.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Officers conducted a thorough search of the residts and determine
whether there were any additional victims or suspects, and no
one else was located.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So it sounds like the argument at the party at
Con O'Brien's holiday party spilled over to the house.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Probably another argument.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
They went to bed, and then Nick came in and
slaughtered his mom and dad. So can you imagine how
angry you've got to be where the argument's over. Michelle
and Rob go one way, Nick goes another way and
then gets so wound up that he comes back and
kills these two people, probably while they're sleeping.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's unimaginable.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Now.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
The Rner's two other children did not come to court today.
They did release a joint statement shortly after today's court
proceedings saying this is obviously a devastating loss to them.
They also asked for the public to kind of temper
any kind of speculation with some sort of humanity In
all this. They say words can't adequately describe the unimaginable
pain that they are dealing with every single day, saying
they were more than just our parents, they were our
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best friends. Their brother, Nick, will appear back in court
for his arrangements on January seventh. We live in downtown
Los Angeles, Tim Caputo, ABC seven.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I wouldness new okay when we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
There is an article out there that basically the title
of the article is interesting. It said Rob and Michelle Reiners.
Rob and Michelle Reiner new son Nick was self destructive,
but not violent. As family didn't see anything like this coming. Okay,
so those days are over, not just for the Rhiners,
(14:59):
but for you. You got a crazy kid in the
family and you always think, oh, he's just self destructive.
Now you got to keep another eye on him, because
I think we're moving into the next level of craziness
where the kids are killing their parents. And we've been
talking about this for three weeks, two and a half
weeks before this happened to Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.
(15:19):
You know, there was the one in Simi Valley. The
sixty three year old doctor with a sixty six year
old wife were killed allegedly by their son flew out
or drove out from Kentucky, then went to Chino or
somewhere in Orange County and killed himself. There was another
one in Tarzana a couple days later, the Van Eyes
(15:40):
Tarzana and Sino area. Another one where they killed the parents,
and then Long Island where the owners of a Delhi,
a very successful Delhi over the last fifty years, were
killed by their son, And then another one in Evanston, Illinois,
where a son came in and wiped out mom and dad.
It's never the daughters. If you have three or four daughters,
(16:03):
you have won the lottery. You have won the lottery.
You can sleep easy tonight. I slept like a baby
last night because I got a daughter.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So the Krozier.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
But man, if you got a son and that son
is a little wacky, you got to keep an eye
on this kid.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Eah, you're up. You're up now at night, you're up
when you here's something. Yep, you're up, you're up.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's it's it's a wild time in Los Angeles and
the rest of the country and the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I had never ever saw this coming.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I never went through a phase where I read story
after story of kids killing their parents never and now
it seems like it's a lot, you know, five in
the last two and a half weeks, at least five,
and I'm sure there's a lot of stories. We've never
even seen it before. So we come back, we'll talk
about that. That's a big story.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
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Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's supposed to rain on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles. Yes,
and I'm not talking drizzle. Three and a half to
five and a half inches. Whoa of rain on Christmas
Eve Bellio.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
That's a kind of fitting, right sure, where people can
be at home and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, but that means you can't do
you any last minute shopping.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You know, everything's gonna be jammed. So you got it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You don't have a full week four until Christmas Eve.
You have six days because the last day is going
to be flooding. It's going to be a mess. So
here's then we'll get back in the story.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Here. But here's the forecast. What is it Wednesday or Thursday?
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Wednesday? All right, Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
The precipitation three and a half inches of rain on Wednesday,
three and a half inches of rain in the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Uh, it's it's it's gonna be raining all day and
all night on Wednesday, December twenty four, which happened to
me in my mother's birthday, and so I didn't know that, Yes,
maybe she's come back for the day in the you know,
in the disguise of really bad weather.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So maybe, well, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So anyway, there was an article out there that that's
really bad. The Rhiners, these poor Riiners. They thought there
Nick was self destructive but not violent, and it turns
out they were wrong. According to a family insider, the
thirty two year old son of the legendary Hollywood director
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was known to be self destructive in many ways, but
not violent, and if they thought he was violent, things
would have been very different.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Was that Angel Well, I mean.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Think about whenever this is I mean, this is just
an example. So when people are interviewed about somebody that
did something just terribly violent and then maybe killed themselves,
but at any rate, what their actions were extremely violent,
all the people that they speak to was like, oh,
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he was such a nice guy. I never ever saw this,
and I just don't believe an ounce of that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I don't either, not in this case at all. You know,
George Carlin had a great line. He said he hated
the term keep your eye on the quiet guy. He said,
if you walk into a bar, you walk into an
old western bar, and there's two guys. There's one guy
reading poetry to himself in an Oxford sweater with penny
(19:43):
loafers on at the end of the bar, and there's
another guy with an axe slamming it on the bar, saying,
if I don't get a drink in the next three seconds,
I'm going to kill someone.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Who do you keep your eye on?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And that's true, But I'm telling you there are a
ton of families out there who have have a Nick
Ryan or in their family who are now worried for themselves.
That is a fact. I know that for sure. I've
had experience. So it says he if they thought he
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was violent, things would have been very different. According to
a new A news outlet, at the worst of it,
it hadn't been like this. I didn't think anyone could
have ever seen anything like this coming.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Really well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Maybe you know good families can keep this under wraps.
Wealthy families can also keep it under wraps. Like if
you had one of these kids in your family, and
your mom and dad lived in an apartment. Sorry kids,
but here it comes again on Sherman Way and Kester.
(20:54):
And let's say your mom and dad had a two
bedroom apartment and you're and they lived with themselves and
a thirty two year old crazy kid like Nick Reiner.
Everybody in the apartment building would know that that kid
was nuts. Everybody they could hear the arguments. They would
have a lot of interaction with them in the parking lot,
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maybe near the pool, maybe the laundry room or the elevator.
Everybody could get a sense of how weird this kid is.
But when you live in a thirteen million dollar house
in Brentwood, you can hide a lot, You can hide
your entire life behind those gates, behind those walls, and
nobody has to know how odd this kid was.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Nobody. And so I think that that is going on.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And I think there's a lot of families right now
who do have a Nick Reiner in their house. They
are taking a second look because they too have only
assumed that their son is self destructive.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But he's not. He's not.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
He could be very destructive to you. And in this case,
you know, murdering allegedly. Here's the kid speaking out. This
is a more on that story.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Tonight.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Rob Reiner's son Nick, making his first appearance in court,
charged with his parents' murders.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
President.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Shielded from the camera by this partition, Reiner was shackled
wearing a suicide prevention smot you or.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
If we could, I would like to ask for a
continuance of the arrangement.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
He sat quietly, only speaking briefly the judge asking him
to confer. He wanted more time before entering.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
A plea, yeah, more time.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Outside the courthouse, his defense attorney Alan Jackson urged the
public not to rush to judgment.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, so we heard that. But when the.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Lawyer says, don't rush to judgment, but that doesn't mean
anything to me. I can rush to judgment if I like.
He doesn't own me, he doesn't run me, he doesn't
run the show or the station. I'm rushing to judgment.
Let me ask you a question. That kid did it?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
They They made a point of saying today there's a
camera in the court and it was directed to not
show him at all, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Wow, And I'm just curious as to why you think
that would be. If there's a camera there and it's
for any other person that's charged with such a heinous crime,
it's pretty damn good chance we're going to see a
camera shot of that person, right exactly. And you know
it said in the video piece, oh it's separated by
this partition. Well, the camera was told. I mean, they
they made a big deal about you know, there's no
no pictures were allowed in there. The camera couldn't be
(23:33):
on him, literally going by artist sketches, which is like
why right, yeah, why have an artist sketch? Why is
it any different than any other criminal court case.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It's not, it's not at all, and it should have
been on you know, I hope that the trial is
shown on camera.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
But a lot of these times, a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Times, when you have that kind of money, you can
squash all that crap.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, you know that's the part that's kind of that's
pretty freaking gross.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It is, but it's always that way, and you know
the solution to that, you know, if you don't like
wealthy people, you know, getting their own way then become wealthy.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You know. Okay, that's a real good solution. Come on it.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Go become wealthy and you can enjoy all those you know,
all those great benefits as well.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Go get wealthy of when you do some heinous act
allegedly that you don't get shown.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
One of my friends who his dad made a lot
of money and he was completely out of touch with everybody.
We're going to a Dodger game when I was like
fifteen or sixteen with his dad, and they had great seats,
and he had a lot of money, and his kid
had a lot of money. And we're going to Dodger
Stadium and we're drive up and we see, you know,
a bunch of people live around Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You know, they're not doing well. They're poor.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Some are homeless, some have kids, you know, living on
the street.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And he said to his dad, He goes.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Dad, he goes, how come these people who live around
Dodger Stadium they're very poor people. How come they don't
see where they are and pull themselves up? And I thought, man,
this kid is really out of touch with what's going
on in this world. And we were in like a
you know, ninety thousand dollars. Car, I'm like, oh, this
kid is right, really crazy.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
And you wonder how circumstances like that, how much, if
at all, any of that stuff plays into Nick's mental state.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It probably does. And I don't want to say entitled,
but clearly he seems to have some sort of issues.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Oh look, buddy, you got that can be exacerbated by
conditions like you can.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
See it all the time. All you got to do
is listen to Nick's words. When Nick said he went
into you know, he slept in the guest house and
he tore it up. If you slept in your dad's
guest house, you would always I and I've slept in
my dad's guest house when I was busted out. I
always referred to it as my dad's guest house, you know,
my parent's guest house, my dad's house. But he said,
(25:53):
I kicked the crap out of my guest house. You
know that entitled crap. You know that you hear from
kids whose parents are worth three or four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
And obviously it's not a situation of blame, but there
are circumstances that should be paid attention to that can exacerbate.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Issues like that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But man, oh man, we're gonna see a lot of
crap come out, and you know what, I hope that
they don't come out with a lot of stuff that
is going to change your opinion of Rob and Michelle,
just to get this nut.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You know, a few years off. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
All right, we're live on KFI at six o'clock. President
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Speaker 1 (26:30):
We were on that.
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Speaker 2 (26:38):
We're going to talk about this yesterday, and then we
got busy. But you remember the very first night, Sunday night,
when Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner were rumored to have
been killed in their in their house in Brentwood, and
nobody wanted to believe it. Everybody thought, you know, it's
got to be somebody else. There's no way. But they're
only reporting the ages ages seventy eight, aged sixty eight.
(26:58):
And then you look it up, Oh, Rob Riner's seventy eight,
his wife is sixty eight. And then the LAPD said
they're waiting for a search warrant to go in the
house and search, and I thought that was odd. You know,
there's a murder there, double homicide. I thought they that's,
you know, your perfectly good reason to go in there
and find out what that will happened. But I guess
that is explained here why they had to wait for
(27:21):
a search warrant, or what the reason behind at least
telling the press.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
That, yeah, it's interesting when you talk about it taking
hours last night for them to get a warrant. I
learned the reason today, and it's because Nick Ryin or
the Sun, was actually living here at his parents' house.
And there is a California law that if you're a
resident of a place and there's a criminal investigation, they've
got to get a warrant. And they didn't want to
take any chances, and they didn't feel like they were
in a rush in that moment, I'm told, which is
(27:47):
why they waited for the warrant to go inside.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But this is the Rhiner's home.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Behind me, just a beautiful, beautiful house here in Brentwood.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's so sad to look at me.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
The beautiful white gates, but all the Christmas decorations, the Christmas.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
It's a beautiful house.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Thirteen almost fourteen million dollar home in Brentwood, he's worth
Rob Rein or his wife are worth two hundred to
four hundred million dollars. They have all the fame in
the world, all the money they could ever want, and
wiped out by somebody inside their home.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's unbelievable. It really is.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
The Christmas ornaments hanging from the trees. They were apparently very,
very festive this time of year. One neighbor was telling
me the gates would normally open, that they would be
having parties this time of year. They were getting ready
for the first night of Hanukkah. Last night when they
were just they were brutally stabbed and killed.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, on the very first night of Hanukkah. Very religious family,
the Rhiners and killed on the very first night of Hanukkah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Now, wonder when the service is going.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
To be because in the Jewish faith, when you die,
you're buried days later, not a week or two weeks
like the Catholics.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Do you know. Catholics will prop you up in a.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Bar and stuff you and everyone will dance around and
drink with you for a week. Not the Jews. They
put you down. They put you in that in the
ground quickly. And I wonder when that happens, it's probably
gonna happen fairly soon.
Speaker 11 (29:13):
In their own Ashley, So, Brian, you had a chance
to speak with a former FBI agent today, but not
just any FBI agent, someone who actually lives in the
neighborhood and was on scene. When did that agent get
on scene? What did the agent tell you?
Speaker 10 (29:28):
Yeah, this is Maureen O'Connell, and she lives down the street.
She knows people in the area, and the minute she
heard about this happening, she raced over to see what
was going on and started talking to the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Listen to what she told me.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
I asked him what he had heard that happened, and
he said, both of the both Rob Reiner and his
wife have both passed away, and initial reportings were that
one had passed away but not the other, and so
he said, no, now it's both, and you know, unfortunately
that turned out to be true. Many people in the
(30:05):
neighborhood say that the son, Nick had been troubled his
whole youth, and again, you know, another tragedy, but to
stab both your parents as just and then for the
sister to find them, it's just unbelievable. On Hanukkah, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
The worst, absolute worst. And the sisters she lived right there,
she lives right across the street.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
Yeah, she was explaining to me that the sister lives
close by, was concerned, came to check on her parents
and is actually the one who made that discovery. And
amid all of that commotion outside the house, she was
telling me that celebrity you started showing up, Larry David,
Albert Brooks, Billy Crystal, who was one of Rob Reiner's
best friends. They all arrived here and were just in
(30:55):
a panic, Ashley when they realized what had happened.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
So there was some confusion earlier today because the lapd okay.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
So then they go on to talk about stuff we
already know and and so I imagine the service. It'll probably
be private, but that's going to be a lot of
a listers there, and the who's who of Hollywood is
going to be there. And I wonder if you'll be
televised because of the interest, And I wonder, and you
(31:26):
know that this is going on right now, And I
guarantee you one hundred percent, I would bet my house
and everything I own that this is going on right now.
Actors are calling their agents saying, hey, how can you get.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Me into the service? How can I be there?
Speaker 12 (31:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Maybe you know, you sort of know Rob Ryan, or
maybe they sort of don't, but I guarantee you there
are Hollywood actors and actresses calling their agents or managers like, oh,
you got to get me into this thing, got to
get me into this thing. It's unbelievable, sick kind of right. Yeah,
I think you're right. Yeah, I think you're right.
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the Conway Show, and we are going to begin with
Michael Monks. You've got Monks every Saturday seven to nine pm.
And he's here with the latest on Rob Reiner, Michelle
(00:23):
Reiner and the entire story that has everybody reeling.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is just a terrible tragedy.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's horse and you could tell even from Nick Reiner's
attorney today that the strategy appears to be recognition of
the level of tragedy that everybody is feeling.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And we'll hear from him in a moment. Okay, but
didn't he also this is Alan Jackson. Yeah, didn't he
also say? And I don't know what it came from
him or it came from the coroner's office that the
two people, Michelle Reiner and Rob Reiner died of you know,
sharp blunt force, you know, obviously being stabbed, but they
were contributing circumstances that were vital to their death.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
And I don't know that that necessarily means directly. This
might be where he is planning the defense of what
was the relationship, like what was the mental state, like,
what was this this kid? What was this man's life
like that might have led up to this if that's
the path they're going down, if they're not going to
plead guilty outright, But.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Do you think they're going to bring in oh, we
had a heart condition, you know, she had diabetes, she
was on you know, blood thinners, the whole run.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's possible.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean, when you're an attorney defending someone whose life
is now on the line himself, you want to find
a way to keep them off of death row and
try to get the most lenient sentence possible. I mean
the sentence. The two possible sentences right now at this moment.
It's life without parole or the death penalty. So neither
of those are the sentences that you want. So what
(01:56):
can they work out here? Can they get some sort
of insane or that We'll learn about that later. But
what happened today was Nick Reiner did make an appearance
in courty, did have a suicide vest on. That might
be a flippant way of referring to whatever formal title
they give this article of clothing, but he was protected
from himself at this point, the appearance was brief, and
(02:19):
ultimately the arraignment where somebody might make a plea was
pushed back to January. After this brief hit. I think
just to say yes, when the judge was asking whether
he understood it, they're not that far. They didn't get
that far. That might happen in January, in early January,
so it's not far off. We'll be back talking about
(02:40):
Nick Reiner's court processes. But the attorney, Alan Jackson, as
you noted, came out after this very brief hearing and
did talk to the media and if Fush has this sound,
here's part of what he said.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Are very very complex and serious issues that are associated
with this case.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
They need to be thoroughly but very carefully dealt with
and examined and looked at and analyzed. We asked that
during this process you allow the system to move forward
in the way that it was designed to move forward. No,
not with the rust of judgment, not with jumping to conclusions,
but with restraint and with dignity and with the respect
(03:24):
that this system and this process deserves and that the
family deserves.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So family.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He did hit the family a couple of times, to
talk about the enormity of the tragedy. So you could
tell by the tone of his voice that he was
using here and the language that he was using, that
he is not denying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The fact that this was a terrible, terrible event. But
what it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Seems like he is going to pursue is that there
were just a lot of circumstances in Nick Reiner's life
that led to this moment.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Should he be guilty of these crimes.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And how ironic that the money to pay Alan Jackson
will probably be coming from Rob and Michelle Reiner.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And I read a recent article that analyzed whether Nick
Reiner would be eligible to inherit any money because of
the state's layer law that you can't kill your parents
and then inherit you know the stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's what kept me clean. Just waited out, Yeah, you'll
get there eventually, but even I was. They interviewed a
single sell amoeba about twelve hundred miles off the Australian coast,
under about eight hundred feet of water and said do
you think Nick did it?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And they went yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
you did it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I think that you can find any amoba anywhere and
that that's going to be the conclusion. I mean, all
of the early reporting, his location, his behavior, what happened
at that party at Conan O'Brien's house. Why was he
checked into a hotel in Santa Monica, What was all
the blood that was found in that place? What was
he doing in the part of town.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Was in right?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And he was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Following this, But if you're a detective, right, there's gonna
be a pile of evidence that's pointing this. I think
that's why you're hearing let the judicial process play out.
You're going to learn more about Nick Reiner and all
of his struggles, because if it's clear that he did
the murders, what can they argue for his benefit to
keep him out of prison for that many years or
(05:23):
to a better prison or off of death row.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Even if it gets to that point.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I was stunned by the kids. Rommy, the daughter of
Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, lives across the street from
Rob Rinder. That's gotta be a five or six million
dollar home. I mean, the Reiners have done well for
generations at this point. I mean, Rob Reiner is a
second generation Hollywood player. I don't doubt he has money.
But I think you know, a starter home is Kester
(05:48):
and Sherman way, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They're probably at that age where you know it's not
a starter home at this point, you know, I mean
they got a lot of money, and plus you know
the Carl Reiner's money.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You've got Rob Reiner's money. I mean, it's a lot
of money. My dad's money is at sant Anita. So
we all make choices, right, and then at the end
of you you answer for those. But and Sophia's money
is looking to go to the same direct.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Is that right? That's right? Now, you got to do better.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Look, she she'll get down with the ship, you know
if we if we do, if we hit the tries
and they you know, the super factas she'll go.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
She'll have a nice life. Your her inheritance is a
gamble at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah. Yeah, by so wait the kids put out states
they did.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, as you noted, Romy Reiner and Jake Reiner, the
siblings who were not part of the crime, who.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Put out the statement.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we
are experiencing every moment of the day, The horrific and
devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner is
something that no one should ever experience. They weren't just
our parents, they were our best friends. And they go
on to say that they are are very grateful for
all of the kindness that they have received. Not anything
(06:57):
to say about their brother at this point.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Two questions for you. Next year, does Conan O'Brien have
a Christmas party? I would say no, it's tough. I
bet he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
A lot of the reporting seems sketchy about what happened there,
what arguments was involved with, what, what were the circumstances
under which the Rhiners left that party. So again, we
need to be careful with what we're consuming from the tabloids,
like let's let's this investigation. Will think about this.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
If this does go to trial and you're calling witnesses,
you can bet people from that party, Oh yeah, we'll
be one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Like Bill Hayter, one of the sweetest guys, one of
the funniest guys in the world, is now going to
be painted with this for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I mean, they have paparazzi outside of his.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Home yea, you know, shooting pictures of him and declaring
that he looks, you know, distraught in all of this,
and maybe he is because it's a horrible story in Hollywood.
But what was the nature, if anything, of a conversation
that he might have had with Nick Reiner.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's not entirely clear.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And TMC has done a lot of reporting on this,
and they broke a lot of the early elements that
prove to be true, but they've also been wrong on
some of their characterizations in the aftermath of it. So
we just need to be careful with that type of
media outlet.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You do because you're a journalist.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't you, on the other hand, gambling your daughter's
inheritance every minute of the day.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But I think also it's over for Bill Hayter uttering
these words at a party.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
This is a private conversation, and that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
That's what's being reported, is that maybe Nick Reiner was
trying to interrupt a conversation Bill Hater was having and
Bill Hayter shoot him away.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's a private conversation. Jill can't do that anymore at parties.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, you know, also that the Reiners got into an argument,
and then that has been downplayed or reported differently that
that's not what happened there. So I again, if this
goes to trial, you'll have some pretty famous people sitting
on the stand because knowing that that party preceded this horrible,
horrible event, it's very significant to the case.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean there were there were probably twenty A
listers at that party. You'll see on the stand.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Were you there? I was not? I was, I was.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I was told by Conan O'Brien. There are three lists,
the A list, the B list, and no list at all.
Thanks for coming in. Michael Monks Saturday, seven to nine pm.
He's got to get to the post office to send
his grandmother something for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, I got to get there by five o'clock. Good
for you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Don't tell anybody because I'm I'm supposed to be clocked
in until five o'clock. Okay, but I'm gonna leave.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Out with this. I'll clear olive for you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
If you're on olive, clear out all of the I'm
gonna be driving down all of the Monks is coming
all right, Thanks buddy, nice to see you.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
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Speaker 1 (09:38):
I got to warn you out there.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I drove in to work and it's hazy out there
and Sonny and so that's the worst combination you can
have for driving, especially if you're driving west, because son,
if it's clear, son is coming at you from one direction,
but when it's hazy and foggy like this, it's coming
from all directions. And that's why you get sunburn when
(10:02):
it's hazy outside, because the sun reflects off those little
tiny bits of fog and runs right into your ass.
So the sun comes from one direction when it's clear,
comes from a billion directions when it's foggy or hazy outside.
So please be careful out there. We don't want anyone
to get hurt. But if you do get an accident,
(10:23):
sweet jams called sweet jams.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
All right, let's I think we uh, I don't want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Okay, let's do another segment here, or at least an update.
This came in about an hour ago. More on the
where the bodies were found with the Rhiners. And everybody
is reading this story. They're reading everything they can, they're
listening to everything they can because it's such a shock
(10:54):
that this, you know, lovely couple Rob Reiner and his
beautiful wife Michelle, with three great two great kids, and
everybody wants all the information they can. I imagine TMZ's
website has just been blown up. All right, let's find
out more about the gruesome inside of the house after
(11:16):
the murders happened in bel Air.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
No new details about the crime itself or the case
being revealed in court today, But as you guys mentioned,
Nick Reiner was in front of a judge for the
very first time. He was stoic, he said, shackle there
in the courtroom. He didn't say an awful lot. He
let his attorney do the talking, both to the judge
getting that rayment pushed back to January, but also that
high powered lawyer coming outside to address the countless cameras
(11:41):
that have converged here, all to tell the public not to.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Rush to judgment.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Charged with the murder of his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner, today,
Nick Reiner in a Los Angeles courtroom behind a glass partition.
The judge asked as a defendant not be shown on camera.
Yiner Rory suicide prevention smock and shackles, quiet and calm,
speaking only briefly to the judge.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
City arrangements.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Twenty six, Reiner's attorney asking the judge to delay arraignment.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You ar if we could, I would like to ask
for a continuance of the arraignment that I wanted to take.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
This judge here is too early.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Reiner is charged with two counts of first degree murder
with special circumstances. He did not enter a pleat today.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now I could enter one for him if he'd like.
I could probably slide down there. What time is it
for twenty five? I could be there by five point fifteen.
I could enter one for him if if he really
needs one.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
These charges carry a maximum sentence.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
This is the district attorney of.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Life in prison, without the possibility without any parole, or
the death penalty.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Reiner is being represented by defense attorney Alan Jackson, who
famously defended Karen Reid, who is acquitted of murder.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Our hearts go out to the entire Rehiner family. There
are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated
with the case. They just need to be thoroughly but
very carefully dealt with.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
New video shows Ryan are inside a gas station and
his arrest nearby just hours after the murders. His parents'
bodies were discovered in their Brentwood home by his sister
on Sunday, and now the lapd revealing exactly where those
bodies were found.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Both victims were found in the master bedroom of the
area of the home.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Officers conducted a thorough search of the residts and determine
whether there were any additional victims or suspects, and no
one else was located.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So it sounds like the argument at the party at
Con O'Brien's holiday party spilled over to the house.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Probably another argument.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
They went to bed, and then Nick came in and
slaughtered his mom and dad. So can you imagine how
angry you've got to be where the argument's over. Michelle
and Rob go one way, Nick goes another way and
then gets so wound up that he comes back and
kills these two people, probably while they're sleeping.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's unimaginable.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Now.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
The Rner's two other children did not come to court today.
They did release a joint statement shortly after today's court
proceedings saying this is obviously a devastating loss to them.
They also asked for the public to kind of temper
any kind of speculation with some sort of humanity In
all this. They say words can't adequately describe the unimaginable
pain that they are dealing with every single day, saying
they were more than just our parents, they were our
(14:24):
best friends. Their brother, Nick, will appear back in court
for his arrangements on January seventh. We live in downtown
Los Angeles, Tim Caputo, ABC seven.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I wouldness new okay when we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
There is an article out there that basically the title
of the article is interesting. It said Rob and Michelle Reiners.
Rob and Michelle Reiner new son Nick was self destructive,
but not violent. As family didn't see anything like this coming. Okay,
so those days are over, not just for the Rhiners,
(14:59):
but for you. You got a crazy kid in the
family and you always think, oh, he's just self destructive.
Now you got to keep another eye on him, because
I think we're moving into the next level of craziness
where the kids are killing their parents. And we've been
talking about this for three weeks, two and a half
weeks before this happened to Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.
(15:19):
You know, there was the one in Simi Valley. The
sixty three year old doctor with a sixty six year
old wife were killed allegedly by their son flew out
or drove out from Kentucky, then went to Chino or
somewhere in Orange County and killed himself. There was another
one in Tarzana a couple days later, the Van Eyes
(15:40):
Tarzana and Sino area. Another one where they killed the parents,
and then Long Island where the owners of a Delhi,
a very successful Delhi over the last fifty years, were
killed by their son, And then another one in Evanston, Illinois,
where a son came in and wiped out mom and dad.
It's never the daughters. If you have three or four daughters,
(16:03):
you have won the lottery. You have won the lottery.
You can sleep easy tonight. I slept like a baby
last night because I got a daughter.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So the Krozier.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
But man, if you got a son and that son
is a little wacky, you got to keep an eye
on this kid.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Eah, you're up. You're up now at night, you're up
when you here's something. Yep, you're up, you're up.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's it's it's a wild time in Los Angeles and
the rest of the country and the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I had never ever saw this coming.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I never went through a phase where I read story
after story of kids killing their parents never and now
it seems like it's a lot, you know, five in
the last two and a half weeks, at least five,
and I'm sure there's a lot of stories. We've never
even seen it before. So we come back, we'll talk
about that. That's a big story.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
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Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's supposed to rain on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles. Yes,
and I'm not talking drizzle. Three and a half to
five and a half inches. Whoa of rain on Christmas
Eve Bellio.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
That's a kind of fitting, right sure, where people can
be at home and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, but that means you can't do
you any last minute shopping.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You know, everything's gonna be jammed. So you got it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You don't have a full week four until Christmas Eve.
You have six days because the last day is going
to be flooding. It's going to be a mess. So
here's then we'll get back in the story.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Here. But here's the forecast. What is it Wednesday or Thursday?
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Wednesday? All right, Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
The precipitation three and a half inches of rain on Wednesday,
three and a half inches of rain in the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Uh, it's it's it's gonna be raining all day and
all night on Wednesday, December twenty four, which happened to
me in my mother's birthday, and so I didn't know that, Yes,
maybe she's come back for the day in the you know,
in the disguise of really bad weather.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So maybe, well, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So anyway, there was an article out there that that's
really bad. The Rhiners, these poor Riiners. They thought there
Nick was self destructive but not violent, and it turns
out they were wrong. According to a family insider, the
thirty two year old son of the legendary Hollywood director
(18:44):
was known to be self destructive in many ways, but
not violent, and if they thought he was violent, things
would have been very different.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Was that Angel Well, I mean.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Think about whenever this is I mean, this is just
an example. So when people are interviewed about somebody that
did something just terribly violent and then maybe killed themselves,
but at any rate, what their actions were extremely violent,
all the people that they speak to was like, oh,
(19:17):
he was such a nice guy. I never ever saw this,
and I just don't believe an ounce of that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I don't either, not in this case at all. You know,
George Carlin had a great line. He said he hated
the term keep your eye on the quiet guy. He said,
if you walk into a bar, you walk into an
old western bar, and there's two guys. There's one guy
reading poetry to himself in an Oxford sweater with penny
(19:43):
loafers on at the end of the bar, and there's
another guy with an axe slamming it on the bar, saying,
if I don't get a drink in the next three seconds,
I'm going to kill someone.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Who do you keep your eye on?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And that's true, But I'm telling you there are a
ton of families out there who have have a Nick
Ryan or in their family who are now worried for themselves.
That is a fact. I know that for sure. I've
had experience. So it says he if they thought he
(20:15):
was violent, things would have been very different. According to
a new A news outlet, at the worst of it,
it hadn't been like this. I didn't think anyone could
have ever seen anything like this coming.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Really well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Maybe you know good families can keep this under wraps.
Wealthy families can also keep it under wraps. Like if
you had one of these kids in your family, and
your mom and dad lived in an apartment. Sorry kids,
but here it comes again on Sherman Way and Kester.
(20:54):
And let's say your mom and dad had a two
bedroom apartment and you're and they lived with themselves and
a thirty two year old crazy kid like Nick Reiner.
Everybody in the apartment building would know that that kid
was nuts. Everybody they could hear the arguments. They would
have a lot of interaction with them in the parking lot,
(21:15):
maybe near the pool, maybe the laundry room or the elevator.
Everybody could get a sense of how weird this kid is.
But when you live in a thirteen million dollar house
in Brentwood, you can hide a lot, You can hide
your entire life behind those gates, behind those walls, and
nobody has to know how odd this kid was.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Nobody. And so I think that that is going on.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And I think there's a lot of families right now
who do have a Nick Reiner in their house. They
are taking a second look because they too have only
assumed that their son is self destructive.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But he's not. He's not.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
He could be very destructive to you. And in this case,
you know, murdering allegedly. Here's the kid speaking out. This
is a more on that story.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Tonight.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Rob Reiner's son Nick, making his first appearance in court,
charged with his parents' murders.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
President.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Shielded from the camera by this partition, Reiner was shackled
wearing a suicide prevention smot you or.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
If we could, I would like to ask for a
continuance of the arrangement.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
He sat quietly, only speaking briefly the judge asking him
to confer. He wanted more time before entering.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
A plea, yeah, more time.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Outside the courthouse, his defense attorney Alan Jackson urged the
public not to rush to judgment.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, so we heard that. But when the.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Lawyer says, don't rush to judgment, but that doesn't mean
anything to me. I can rush to judgment if I like.
He doesn't own me, he doesn't run me, he doesn't
run the show or the station. I'm rushing to judgment.
Let me ask you a question. That kid did it?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
They They made a point of saying today there's a
camera in the court and it was directed to not
show him at all, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Wow, And I'm just curious as to why you think
that would be. If there's a camera there and it's
for any other person that's charged with such a heinous crime,
it's pretty damn good chance we're going to see a
camera shot of that person, right exactly. And you know
it said in the video piece, oh it's separated by
this partition. Well, the camera was told. I mean, they
they made a big deal about you know, there's no
no pictures were allowed in there. The camera couldn't be
(23:33):
on him, literally going by artist sketches, which is like
why right, yeah, why have an artist sketch? Why is
it any different than any other criminal court case.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It's not, it's not at all, and it should have
been on you know, I hope that the trial is
shown on camera.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
But a lot of these times, a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Times, when you have that kind of money, you can
squash all that crap.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, you know that's the part that's kind of that's
pretty freaking gross.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It is, but it's always that way, and you know
the solution to that, you know, if you don't like
wealthy people, you know, getting their own way then become wealthy.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You know. Okay, that's a real good solution. Come on it.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Go become wealthy and you can enjoy all those you know,
all those great benefits as well.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Go get wealthy of when you do some heinous act
allegedly that you don't get shown.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
One of my friends who his dad made a lot
of money and he was completely out of touch with everybody.
We're going to a Dodger game when I was like
fifteen or sixteen with his dad, and they had great seats,
and he had a lot of money, and his kid
had a lot of money. And we're going to Dodger
Stadium and we're drive up and we see, you know,
a bunch of people live around Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You know, they're not doing well. They're poor.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Some are homeless, some have kids, you know, living on
the street.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And he said to his dad, He goes.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Dad, he goes, how come these people who live around
Dodger Stadium they're very poor people. How come they don't
see where they are and pull themselves up? And I thought, man,
this kid is really out of touch with what's going
on in this world. And we were in like a
you know, ninety thousand dollars. Car, I'm like, oh, this
kid is right, really crazy.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
And you wonder how circumstances like that, how much, if
at all, any of that stuff plays into Nick's mental state.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It probably does. And I don't want to say entitled,
but clearly he seems to have some sort of issues.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Oh look, buddy, you got that can be exacerbated by
conditions like you can.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
See it all the time. All you got to do
is listen to Nick's words. When Nick said he went
into you know, he slept in the guest house and
he tore it up. If you slept in your dad's
guest house, you would always I and I've slept in
my dad's guest house when I was busted out. I
always referred to it as my dad's guest house, you know,
my parent's guest house, my dad's house. But he said,
(25:53):
I kicked the crap out of my guest house. You
know that entitled crap. You know that you hear from
kids whose parents are worth three or four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
And obviously it's not a situation of blame, but there
are circumstances that should be paid attention to that can exacerbate.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Issues like that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But man, oh man, we're gonna see a lot of
crap come out, and you know what, I hope that
they don't come out with a lot of stuff that
is going to change your opinion of Rob and Michelle,
just to get this nut.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You know, a few years off. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
All right, we're live on KFI at six o'clock. President
Trump is speaking.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
We were on that.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
We're going to talk about this yesterday, and then we
got busy. But you remember the very first night, Sunday night,
when Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner were rumored to have
been killed in their in their house in Brentwood, and
nobody wanted to believe it. Everybody thought, you know, it's
got to be somebody else. There's no way. But they're
only reporting the ages ages seventy eight, aged sixty eight.
(26:58):
And then you look it up, Oh, Rob Riner's seventy eight,
his wife is sixty eight. And then the LAPD said
they're waiting for a search warrant to go in the
house and search, and I thought that was odd. You know,
there's a murder there, double homicide. I thought they that's,
you know, your perfectly good reason to go in there
and find out what that will happened. But I guess
that is explained here why they had to wait for
(27:21):
a search warrant, or what the reason behind at least
telling the press.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
That, yeah, it's interesting when you talk about it taking
hours last night for them to get a warrant. I
learned the reason today, and it's because Nick Ryin or
the Sun, was actually living here at his parents' house.
And there is a California law that if you're a
resident of a place and there's a criminal investigation, they've
got to get a warrant. And they didn't want to
take any chances, and they didn't feel like they were
in a rush in that moment, I'm told, which is
(27:47):
why they waited for the warrant to go inside.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But this is the Rhiner's home.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Behind me, just a beautiful, beautiful house here in Brentwood.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's so sad to look at me.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
The beautiful white gates, but all the Christmas decorations, the Christmas.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
It's a beautiful house.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Thirteen almost fourteen million dollar home in Brentwood, he's worth
Rob Rein or his wife are worth two hundred to
four hundred million dollars. They have all the fame in
the world, all the money they could ever want, and
wiped out by somebody inside their home.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's unbelievable. It really is.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
The Christmas ornaments hanging from the trees. They were apparently very,
very festive this time of year. One neighbor was telling
me the gates would normally open, that they would be
having parties this time of year. They were getting ready
for the first night of Hanukkah. Last night when they
were just they were brutally stabbed and killed.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, on the very first night of Hanukkah. Very religious family,
the Rhiners and killed on the very first night of Hanukkah.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Now, wonder when the service is going.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
To be because in the Jewish faith, when you die,
you're buried days later, not a week or two weeks
like the Catholics.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Do you know. Catholics will prop you up in a.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Bar and stuff you and everyone will dance around and
drink with you for a week. Not the Jews. They
put you down. They put you in that in the
ground quickly. And I wonder when that happens, it's probably
gonna happen fairly soon.
Speaker 11 (29:13):
In their own Ashley, So, Brian, you had a chance
to speak with a former FBI agent today, but not
just any FBI agent, someone who actually lives in the
neighborhood and was on scene. When did that agent get
on scene? What did the agent tell you?
Speaker 10 (29:28):
Yeah, this is Maureen O'Connell, and she lives down the street.
She knows people in the area, and the minute she
heard about this happening, she raced over to see what
was going on and started talking to the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Listen to what she told me.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
I asked him what he had heard that happened, and
he said, both of the both Rob Reiner and his
wife have both passed away, and initial reportings were that
one had passed away but not the other, and so
he said, no, now it's both, and you know, unfortunately
that turned out to be true. Many people in the
(30:05):
neighborhood say that the son, Nick had been troubled his
whole youth, and again, you know, another tragedy, but to
stab both your parents as just and then for the
sister to find them, it's just unbelievable. On Hanukkah, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
The worst, absolute worst. And the sisters she lived right there,
she lives right across the street.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
Yeah, she was explaining to me that the sister lives
close by, was concerned, came to check on her parents
and is actually the one who made that discovery. And
amid all of that commotion outside the house, she was
telling me that celebrity you started showing up, Larry David,
Albert Brooks, Billy Crystal, who was one of Rob Reiner's
best friends. They all arrived here and were just in
(30:55):
a panic, Ashley when they realized what had happened.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
So there was some confusion earlier today because the lapd okay.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
So then they go on to talk about stuff we
already know and and so I imagine the service. It'll probably
be private, but that's going to be a lot of
a listers there, and the who's who of Hollywood is
going to be there. And I wonder if you'll be
televised because of the interest, And I wonder, and you
(31:26):
know that this is going on right now, And I
guarantee you one hundred percent, I would bet my house
and everything I own that this is going on right now.
Actors are calling their agents saying, hey, how can you get.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Me into the service? How can I be there?
Speaker 12 (31:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Maybe you know, you sort of know Rob Ryan, or
maybe they sort of don't, but I guarantee you there
are Hollywood actors and actresses calling their agents or managers like, oh,
you got to get me into this thing, got to
get me into this thing. It's unbelievable, sick kind of right. Yeah,
I think you're right. Yeah, I think you're right.
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