Overview
- Los Angeles County death certificates list “multiple sharp force injuries” inflicted with a knife and record the victims’ deaths at 3:45 p.m. and 3:46 p.m. on December 14.
- The Reiners were cremated at Mount Sinai Mortuary on December 19, and the ashes were released to their eldest son, Jake Reiner, according to the documents.
- Nick Reiner, 32, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special-circumstance and weapon allegations and has not entered a plea.
- Prosecutors said the charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
- Martin Scorsese honored the couple in a New York Times guest essay, calling their deaths “an obscenity.”