Overview
- Officials say Rob and Michele Reiner died from multiple sharp-force injuries, and the manner of death was ruled homicide by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
- Prosecutors have charged Nick Reiner with two counts of murder, alleging multiple murders as a special circumstance and that he personally used a knife.
- Nick Reiner appeared in court wearing a suicide-prevention smock, did not enter a plea, and was ordered held without bail ahead of his scheduled January 7 arraignment.
- NBC4 Los Angeles published surveillance video showing Reiner calmly making a purchase at a gas-station store near Exposition Boulevard and Vermont Avenue before police converged and arrested him.
- A Daily Mail report citing an unnamed family insider claims estate funds are retaining his defense attorney, a claim not confirmed in filings, and California’s Slayer Statute would bar a convicted killer from inheriting from victims.