# Two people found dead at Rob Reiner's home. (Sadly confirmed it was Rob and his wife.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [December 15, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704 "2025-12-15T02:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/261 "2026-09-15T20:51:51Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > All death penalty cases in the US were commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 because of Furman v Georgia. Right, but that was just temporary. It only lasted until 1976, due to _Gregg v Georgia_. There were 25 executions so far this year alone: > To date, twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2026, all by lethal injection. > [List of people executed in the United States in 2026 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_the_United_States_in_2026) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/262 "2026-09-15T20:53:56Z")
That doesn’t address what I’ve said at all. Manson evaded the death penalty because of a mass communication. It was never back on the table for him. All of the people executed this year and the last several years weren’t in California. We don’t have it here de facto. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/263 "2026-09-15T20:57:47Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Late reply, but my brother tried to kill my mom once (luckily he didn’t succeed, she’s still around today) and you definitely feel a lot of conflicting emotions. Wow, what a thing for you to have endured, not to mention what your mother must have endured! My sympathies, friend, for what you went through! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/264 "2026-09-15T21:01:42Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > That doesn’t address what I’ve said at all. Eh?? You said: > [@hajario](#): > > All death penalty cases in the US were commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 because of Furman v Georgia. Then I said: > [@wolfpup](#): > > It only lasted until 1976, due to _Gregg v Georgia_. It directly addressed what you had said. I don’t dispute that California currently has had _de facto_ no death penalty since 2019. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/265 "2026-09-15T22:48:18Z")
There’s more to the California story. Shortly after Manson (and Sirhan Sirhan) had their death penalty sentences commuted, due to California v. Anderson (a state supreme court decision), the California constitution was changed, by initiative ballot, to specifically state that capital punishment was not cruel or unusual. If I’m not mistaken, that is still the state of the state constitution. Since then there has been a lot of litigation on the issue, but I believe the current condition where no executions are being done is completely _de facto_ and not _de jure_. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/266 "2026-09-15T22:57:09Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Since then there has been a lot of litigation on the issue, but I believe the current condition where no executions are being done is completely _de facto_ and not _de jure_. Depends on how _de jure_ you consider an executive order by the Governor. Even with the 2019 moratorium, two people were still sentenced to death just last year. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/267 "2026-09-15T22:58:11Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > That doesn’t address what I’ve said at all. Manson evaded the death penalty because of a mass communication. I’ve known (and respected you) through your posts for a long time, but “commutation” is the reduction of a prison sentence or punishment. It is the SDMB after all. So, I’m just going to say: “Damn auto-correct!” 🙂 “Nitpicking is life!” - with apologies to _Ted Lasso_. ETA: I now see that you got it right the first time. So DAMN AUTO-CORRECT! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/268 "2026-09-15T23:11:52Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > I’ve known (and respected you) through your posts for a long time Right back atcha. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/269 "2026-09-16T00:43:34Z")
To jump in briefly with this… Between Lindsay Clancy and Nick Reiner, sadly, my vocabulary groweth with terms I didn’t realize existed. It’s scary to acknowledge this happens frequently enough that we need such terms: filicide = when a parent kills a child parricide = when a child kills a parent (sigh) ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/270 "2026-09-16T17:04:45Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > filicide = when a parent kills a child > > parricide = when a child kills a parent Gagagoogooicide = when the baby kills the parent (And siouxicide is when a Native American kills somebody) ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/271 "2026-09-16T17:22:18Z")
> **Hidden by What Exit?** > > > [@Moriarty](#): > > > > Gagagoogooicide = when the baby kills the parent > > > > (And siouxicide > > Both of these are being a jerk in one way or another, especially in this forum and neither are remotely funny. > > The googoogaga baby one trivializes intrafamily violence and is heartless and insensitive. > > The Siouxicide is much worse. Bigoted, insulting, a racist slur against Native Americans. Unbelievably crass. Added insensitivity about suicide as a lethal mental illness~never should be called upon for a cheap laugh. > > Disgusting, the whole post. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/272 "2026-09-16T17:40:31Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > While I agree that “better access to mental health care” is needed, in reality that doesn’t necessarily completely fix a person. Agreed. In fact, it doesn’t necessarily mean it fixes them at all. Sadly, while they were rightfully spending all that money on him, they should have gotten a restraining order and spent money on security. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/273 "2026-09-16T17:44:01Z")
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/274 "2026-09-16T17:46:45Z")
**Warning** for @BippityBoppityBoo You flagged something, the Moderator disagreed, so you decided the attack the poster instead. This is not allowed. I will hide your post. Do not return to this thread, you are banned from it. Keep posts like this to the pit. @Moriarty, bad taste jokes in a serious thread many month later is not gallows humor, it is just bad taste. Try to refrain in the future. * * * * * * Actually, I’m going to leave this thread closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704.md?page=13)