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On Wednesday, Nick Reiner stood in Los Angeles Superior Court for a preliminary hearing related to the tragic December 2025 murders of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
The 32-year-old, clad in a yellow prison jumpsuit over blue pants, displayed a shaved head and full beard. He sat expressionless next to Los Angeles County Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene, who stepped in to handle the case earlier this year after the departure of renowned attorney Alan Jackson.
With a stoic demeanor, Nick offered only brief, mumbled replies to Judge Samuel Ohta’s questions.
Greene informed the court that she was still awaiting the autopsy reports for Rob and Michele. Consequently, Judge Ohta rescheduled the preliminary hearing for September 15.
Nick was taken into custody by Los Angeles Police Department officers on December 14, 2025, soon after his parents, aged 78 and 70, respectively, were discovered fatally stabbed in their Brentwood residence.
Nick was charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances of multiple murders and personal use of a knife.
According to Rob and Michele’s death certificates, they died within “minutes” of receiving “multiple sharp force injuries” with a “knife, by another.”
If convicted, Nick — who has remained behind bars at Twin Towers Correctional Facility since his arrest — faces a possible death sentence or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Nick — who had gotten into an argument with his parents at Conan O’Brien’s Dec. 13 Christmas party — was diagnosed with schizophrenia before the killings and has a long history of drug addiction.
He pleaded not guilty in February.
Rob and Michele, who had been married since 1989, were also parents to son Jake Reiner, 34 and daughter Romy Reiner, 28. Prior to marrying Michele, the actor-director was married to Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981. During their relationship, Rob adopted her daughter, Tracy Reiner, 61.
Jake broke his silence on his parents’ deaths last week in a Substack essay that detailed the exact moment he found out they had died.
“I was in Union Station at a celebration of life for one of my best friends, Christian Anderson, who died in October,” Jake wrote. “It was at that moment I received a call from my sister Romy telling me our father was dead. Minutes later, she called back telling me our mother was also dead.”
Jake continued, “The 45-minute Lyft ride from downtown to the west side was unendurable. My world, as I knew it, had collapsed. I was in a trance. The only thing I could focus on was that I needed to get to my childhood home. I needed to get to my sister. I needed to figure out what the hell just happened.”
Jake lamented that he feels “robbed of so many things” after losing his dad and mom, noting that the tragedy “simultaneously breaks my heart and enrages me.”
“Nothing can prepare you for what it feels like to lose both parents instantly at the same time,” he added. “It’s too devastating to comprehend. I still wake up every morning having to convince myself that, no, it’s not a dream. This truly is my living nightmare.”