# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/141 "2025-12-16T14:52:46Z")
Eh, true. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/142 "2025-12-16T14:54:53Z")
So, the son is in jail with no bail. Apparently, they feel his guilt is a done deal. How do you you cut the throats of your mother and father? Can’t wrap my head around that. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/143 "2025-12-16T15:12:04Z")
Oh, I thought he had a $4 million bail. Did they just move to zero bail? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/144 "2025-12-16T15:12:52Z")
I heard no bail last night on the news, but that could be outdated or even incorrect. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/145 "2025-12-16T15:15:26Z")
From the New York Times at 9:07am today: … **Live Updates: L.A. District Attorney Considers Charges Against Reiners’ Son** Nick Reiner, 32, is being held without bail on suspicion of murder after his parents, the director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home… ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/146 "2025-12-16T15:15:38Z")
My sense is that Nick has been dealing with mental struggles his whole life. The drugs were not the issue. They were a way of self medicating. He’d take the drugs to calm his thoughts, get addicted, get clean, the mental struggles would come back, get back on drugs to calm his thoughts, and repeat. There was a line from “Being Charlie” which was: > [@](#): > > “It was never about the drugs,” Charlie tells his father. “All I ever wanted was a way to kill the noise.” In his mind at that moment, his parents were the source of the noise. Probably the recent argument caused the noise to get to unbearable levels. His ill brain wanted the noise to to stop. It came to the conclusion that getting rid of his parents would get rid of the noise. That’s not a rational solution, but in his mental state, it probably made logical sense to him. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/147 "2025-12-16T15:20:17Z")
Killing your parents is called parricide. It’s 2–3% of all murders in the U.S. One thing you need to understand is that the people you’re most likely to be killed by aren’t strangers you never met, who don’t live near you, and who differ from you racially/ethnically/politically/religiously/financially/etc. You are most likely to be killed by your husband or your ex-husband or your boyfriend or your ex-boyfriend or your wife or your ex-wife or your girlfriend or your ex-girlfriend or your parents or your children or your siblings or your other relatives or your neighbors or other people from your neighborhood or your co-workers or other people who are like you in some racial/ethnic/political/religious/financial/etc way. Yes it’s possible to be killed by someone robbing you or hating you because you differ from them in various ways, but that’s not as common as people with some similarity to you killing you. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/148 "2025-12-16T15:22:41Z")
I know, but I still can’t really envision it. I guess that, if they were truly horrible or I the devil incarnate, that could occur. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/149 "2025-12-16T15:25:05Z")
I’m thinking that being on trial for murder is going to be even more noise, so that could prove interesting. They’ll probably medicate him to ensure he is docile. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/150 "2025-12-16T15:34:57Z")
That’s why I said earlier that he needs to be (and probably is) on suicide watch. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/151 "2025-12-16T15:46:49Z")
Insanity is not a mental state most of us can really imagine accurately enough to empathize with in the technical sense of the term. Maybe it made sense at the moment to him and was done cold-bloodedly. Maybe it was just rage, the same rage anyone can feel. I have had a couple of encounters with folks so wasted on drugs that there was essentially no connection between the real world, what they perceived, and what they did. But they were still capable of doing stuff. Think monkey with a machine gun and you have the idea. There is really no connection between their behavior and anything you or I would label rational thought. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/152 "2025-12-16T15:46:59Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > I’m thinking that being on trial for murder is going to be even more noise, so that could prove interesting. They’ll probably medicate him to ensure he is docile. Can they do that? Seems to me that would be evidence that he’s not competent to stand trial. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/153 "2025-12-16T15:49:19Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Can they do that? Seems to me that would be evidence that he’s not competent to stand trial. Being bat shit crazy is not the same as being legally insane. To be adjudged legally insane, the defense would have to convince the jury that he was not aware of his actions during the time he murdered his own parents. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/154 "2025-12-16T15:53:49Z")
If he is not competent to stand trial it should never get to a jury let alone sentencing. To go to trial, a defendant must understand the proceedings. I suspect being drugged during trial is going to be a get out of jail free card on appeal. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/155 "2025-12-16T15:59:12Z")
For the sake of their other family, I hope this doesn’t go to a jury trial, but instead they’re able to reach a plea bargain to avoid that. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/156 "2025-12-16T16:02:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I suspect being drugged during trial is going to be a get out of jail free card on appeal. I don’t think “get out of jail free” is anywhere in his future. I expect about the best outcome he can hope for is “confined to a mental institution indefinitely for treatment.” ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/157 "2025-12-16T16:17:19Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > We watched Princess Bride so many times. The whole family could quote almost the whole thing. It took me months to convince the guys to watch it because they didn’t want to watch a love story. I hope you fast forwarded past the kissing scenes. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/158 "2025-12-16T16:28:20Z")
I agree that Conan and some of the guests could be witnesses. Rob had to be embarrassed that his son was dressed and acting odd. Nick wouldn’t get in a glitzy party like that without his dad’s connections. Rob confronted him and the argument escalated Sunday. I hope there’s no trial. A plea agreement with a double life sentence is the best outcome. Link [Rob Reiner's Son Nick Seemed Out of Place at Conan O'Brien's Christmas Party](https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-son-nick-conan-obrien-christmas-party/) > [@](#): > > Sources at the party, which went down Saturday night at Conan’s, tell TMZ … Nick seemed out of place based on how he was dressed and how he was carrying himself. > > We’re told Nick showed up to the very formal party in a hoodie, while everyone else was wearing nice suits and dresses. > > Our sources say Nick roamed around in his sweatshirt, didn’t interact with people, kept to himself, and was very reserved … all of which made some folks feel his behavior was odd. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/159 "2025-12-16T16:44:07Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Oh, I thought he had a $4 million bail. Did they just move to zero bail? According to a former LA prosecutor interviewed on _Morning Edition_ today the change in bail is an indication that the DA is planning to charge with multiple homicide, which is an aggravating circumstance which mandates no bail and life without parole. Also, insanity defense is off the table - the bar is extremely high in California and requires, among other things, an organic mental illness - not one brought on or exacerbated by drug use. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/160 "2025-12-16T16:48:42Z")
The fact that he has been in treatment since childhood may pay a factor in that, so don’t just discount it out. Maybe not insanity, but competence. I doubt that he goes to an actual jail, more likely a mental institution. [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=7) [Next 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=9)