Posted on 12/31/2025 8:23:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Already known details of how Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed have now been shuttered by the LA County Medical Examiner under a court order sought by the LAPD. The department wants to keep its findings sealed and away from the prying eyes of the “media and the public” as they try to make substantial progress before a potentially decisive court hearing next week.
Halting “the public release of any investigative information, notes, reports, or photos” of the Reiners’ death, the judge approved order went into effect on December 29. The order specifically says the Medical Examiner can only provide findings to the “assigned investigators.”
The Reiners’ youngest son Nick was arrested on December 14 just hours after their daughter Romy discovered the couple’s maimed bodies.
Under suicide watch behind bars in downtown LA, the 32-year-old could facing the death penalty after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder with “special circumstances” on December 16 by the LA County District Attorney.
Noting “the causes of death of Mr and Mrs Reiner have already been made public,” the LAPD said today “the order was sought only to ensure detectives from Robbery-Homicide Division learned of important information surrounding their deaths before the media and the public.” Aware of the optics in this extremely high-profile matter than has shaken and saddened the Hollywood community this holiday season, the cops added: “the order was not sought to undermine transparency.”
While not unprecedented, sealing such records like the Reiners after they have been out there already for a couple of weeks is a rare development. Still, even in a creative community, cop shop and DA’s office used to spotlight crimes and cases, the tragedy of the Reiners’ deaths has hit intensely, garnering global attention and an almost universal outpouring of sorrow.
The Reiners’ official cause of death was revealed on December 17 to be from “multiple sharp force injuries” three days before. Five days after the long married couple’s remains were cremated, the Medical Examiner put out death certificates on both the elder Reiners, listing their demise as a “homicide” from “knife, by another.”
That’s all scrubbed from the Medical Examiner’s online portal and elsewhere now.
“On December 24 at 10:30 a.m., the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner (Department) received a court order, initiated by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), to place a security hold on Medical Examiner case numbers 2025-19480 and 2025-19481, Robert and Michele Reiner,” the Medical Examiner’s office said late Monday. “While the cause and manner of death were previously released on these cases, due to the court order, the information is no longer available. No other case information or records, including the Medical Examiner report, can be released or posted on the website until further notice.
“The Department understands the public’s interest in these cases and remains committed to transparency when possible. Information will be made available once the court order is lifted.”
The successful Christmas Eve sealing ask from the police comes as the investigation into the death of the 78-year-old A Few Good Men director and 68-year-old the photographer deepens with more details emerging of what actually occurred in the couple’s Brentwood home on the first night of Hanukkah. In part, law enforcement sources say, the sealing was sought to allow police an uninterrupted examination of the facts and timelines before a scheduled January 7 hearing for Nick Reiner.
To that, police are still trying to determine the sequence of events that led to what they believe were attacks by Nick Reiner on his parents in their home’s master bedroom earlier in the day of December 14, sources tell me.
Very publicly having struggled with addiction and the consequences of the disease for years, Nick Reiner had been living in the guesthouse on his parents’ property for several weeks before their death. The context of how the apparently quick stabbings occurred could proved essential to both the Alan Jackson-led defense and the prosecution – especially in terms of if the younger Reiner was aware or not what he was doing, as alleged.
Simultaneously and with great sensitivity, DA Nathan Hochman‘s office is trying to set a face-to-face meeting with the grieving Reiner family, I’m told. As the DA said in the week before Christmas, he and his team want to sit down with the family, especially siblings Romy, her brother Jake and the adopted Tracy, to hear their perspective on if prosecutors should seek life in prison without parole for Nick Reiner or the death penalty.
The death penalty is rare in California but still permitted in such “special circumstances” as what the younger Reiner has been charged with.
Neither the LA DA’s office nor defense attorney Jackson responded Tuesday to Deadline’s requests for comments on the sealing of the Reiners’ death records.
I’m fairly sure this stone head will be found incompetent due to its his fried brain. He will be confined to a Hollywood style mental health facility till it is determined to be cured. As to a star on the Walk Of Fame, that has not been confirmed
The death penalty in California…....laughable.
My guess is that provocative toxicology screens may be pending as to the victims and the defendant. If so, with the support of the family, the police and defense would want to investigate and assess the facts before announcing any findings.
OR was mommy sexually assaulted? Oedipus complex?
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
Yup—the last execution in CA was in 2006.
The Reiner orphan is going to be alive and well...
Sealing records could make people wonder what is being hidden.
And of course, being such a high profile case, I’m sure the media would want to dig into every detail. Clearly powers that be , do not want all this revealed at the present time.
Rumors are that they are very gruesome.......
“...Under suicide watch behind bars in downtown LA, the 32-year-old could facing the death penalty...”
Why not save the taxpayer’s plenty of money and let him go ahead and kill himself?????
They don’t want to taint the potential jury pool and provide the defense a later argument for appeal.
When you interact in some level of proximity around people that are truly spiritually oppressed, even possessed and full on demonic. These kinds of events can take place in nearby association.
And then how much more so when people are already also opened up spiritually (wide open to their influence) with drug use etc.,
That was my first thought when I heard that (demonic unclean fly-infested spirit) Obama was supposed to meet with Reiner that very day. This evil attachment seems to be having fewer reasons to stay hidden away.
and he cut of his man hood and put it up is butt
I’m pretty sure this was predicted on here a few time before the corpses were even cold.
Maybe he tried to eat them. There is one drug out there that does that. Don’t remember the details. Then mix that drug with whatever else he was “officially” taking that wasn’t working.
I had to go look this up. I may be thinking of Flakka but the face eating dude ended up not having that in his system.
“Bath Salts”...............
Here’s a thought... Maybe the daughter did it and blamed it on the brother... Or... A second thought... Maybe they both did it.
“After all, he just lost his parents.”
Have to show compassion to an orphan.
“He wasn’t in the right state of mind and can not be held accountable for his actions.”
But of course, Carl HATED Trump more than he loved his family so the DA and judges are going to have one hell of a case of cognitive dissonance going forward.
Don’t you mean Rob Reiner? Carl Reiner was the grandfather and old 1950s-1960s comedian, comedy writer partnered with Nel Brooks and Sid Caesar.
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